2018 in Review: My Top Five Travel Highlights
In recent years I’ve started the new year with a round-up of some of my favourite trips from the year just gone by and this one will be no exception! […]
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2017 in Review: My Top Five Travel Highlights
Having missed out last year (too much to right about, or not enough?), I’m starting the new year in the same way as I did 2016 and 2015 with a […]
200 Posts of Rambling Northerner!
It recently dawned on me that I’ve been writing this blog for quite a while now – just over four years in fact – since I left home for a […]
A Most Impulsive Purchase (P.S. Does Anyone Know How to Use a Camera?)
I seem to have a wonderful ability to procrastinate yet be completely impulsive at the same time. Well, truth be told I usually procrastinate with crap stuff like paying bills, […]
My Five Favourite Travel Tunes
With a trip to Thailand on the horizon (five days…but who’s counting?) and with it a reunion with my good mate James, I’m in a bit of a nostalgic mood. […]
My Three Tried, Tested, and Occasionally Failed Methods to Learn Japanese
Moving to a new country is full of many difficulties that you need to overcome. I’ve already spoken at length about the arse-ache involved in getting a mobile phone and […]
Six Things I’ve Learnt in Two Years (sort of!) of Travel
February 22nd is a date that really means a lot to me as it marks the day I packed my life into a bag in 2014 and set off on […]
New Year’s Resolutions 2016
Don’t worry, I’ve not gone all “new year, new me” on you here. I’ve spent far too long getting wound up by those sorts of Facebook posts over the past […]
2015 in Review: My Top Five Travel Highlights
2015 has been a year filled with many highs, some real lows, and a few periods of…well…absolutely bugger all to be honest. It started very much in the same vein […]
Bad Days Backpacking…and the Lessons Learned
By: Devin Hargrove Every day that I am backpacking is a great day, but not every day that I have been backpacking has been a good day. After finally unshackling […]
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