Category: Travel Lifestyle

October 13, 2012

100 Lessons From 1000 Days of Travel

Today marks our thousandth day of longterm travel. So here are 100 lessons I’ve learnt from those — almost entirely wonderful – 1000 days. 1....

October 9, 2012

So we’re back in Turkey, en route to Bali, by way of Malaysia, and my brain just turned to language soup. Like most Britons, I...

October 5, 2012

Zac wakes without a fuss at 4.45am for our next attempt at surgery, in a week that is rapidly falling apart. This is the last...

October 3, 2012

Zac has mentioned to me on a couple of occasions that he thinks he has an embarrassing childhood ailment. To which I have typically responded,...

September 25, 2012

Climb inside a pyramid. Hold dinosaur bones. Dive an undersea volcano. Walk on the Great Wall of China. Roll down a sand dune. Surf on...

September 8, 2012

“I don’t know where that is,” says the guy, poring over the address I’ve hand-copied. “Just walk.” “Walk?!” I say. I mean, I know we’re...

September 7, 2012

Our cunning flat plans don’t go entirely, ahem, to plan – there are any number of reasons why a flat might appear as available on...

August 26, 2012

It’s around 6am when we get into Göreme, Cappadocia, and I have that baleful air that’s only acquired after a long and painful overnight bus...

August 21, 2012

“Hey. Let me take that for you,” a voice comes from behind me. We live our lives, Zac and I, out of a backpack each...

August 12, 2012

After Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon, it would be fair to say that my spawn is a little ruined-out. The Middle East does that to you,...