I’ve always craved a nomadic lifestyle.

In 2022, I created the conditions for a long-term backpacking trip. I quit my job. Dan (work colleague and romantic partner) joined suit. We created a spreadsheet containing our route, transports, cost, hostels and activities at each stop. We each had a budget of £10,000 and the ambition to get as far as we could on our savings.

Years later, Dan and I are still galivanting around the globe in search of new flavours, experiences and knowledge. Dan is now a fully fledged ghost-writer of transport content (you can thank him for the Tunisia louage routes and Central America border crossing content) and walking tours, editor-in-chief and top cheerleader encouraging me to put pen to paper (metaphorically).

To this day, we continue to be self-funded travel bloggers – working in the event industry in the UK during the summer and skedaddling somewhere warm in the winter. Being a freelancer in a seasonal industry allows us greater freedom to travel the world.

All of our travel is independently planned, funded and completed for the most part using local public transport. We don’t have anybody helping us with any of this. These experiences are fully our own.

People often ask how I can travel so much. The answer is hard work, meticulous planning and careful budgeting!

Why bother with a blog?

I created this blog about my own personal experiences to inform and maybe, just maybe entertain. You may find that your experience of a place, attraction or hotel/restaurant is the complete opposite from mine, for this I don’t apologise! I can only advise and guide, I cannot guarantee the same experience or identical reality as to that which I stumbled into. Also, I’m not going to tell you what to do or where to go, this is entirely up to you. But I am going to relay my own travel tales which I hope you will find useful and insightful.

One of the issues of writing a travel blog is that things can change quite quickly. If some of the info in my blog has become outdated or inaccurate, I do apologise. I can only guarantee that the info in my blog was accurate at the time of writing and reflects my own subjective experience at the time of my visit. I also don’t claim to be the font of all knowledge on any of the places I visit, far from it. The content that I write is just purely based on my own perceptions and experiences.

One thing I really hate about some other travel blogs is when the person clearly hasn’t visited most of the places, restaurants and hostels they suggest. I find this weird. Everyone can research independently about restaurants, things to do and hotels. Why give recommendations without even going there?

On a side note, I really hate the use of the verbs ‘do’ or ‘done’ when referring to a place. People sometimes say, ‘Oh yeah, I’ve done Turkey’ and it inwardly makes me cringe. You haven’t done or completed anything, travel is not a video game! Travel is a rewarding and enriching experience, not something to be ‘done.’ Rant over.

Disclaimer: I am NOT being paid by private companies, businesses or corporate entities for my recommendations. My suggestions are my OWN, from my experience ONLY.