Category: Travel Tales

• Bikes, and Bros (Greece)

  Greece – Zakynthos ~2011 It’s somewhat of a rite of passage for young adults in England to go on a “Lad’s/Lasses’ Holiday” at some point…at least where I come from anyway. Now these holidays are unlike any holiday you will likely ever experience, for a few reasons…but are still pretty simple to sum up – so how about…

  July 30, 2016

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• Hobbit Holes (N. Zealand)

  New Zealand ~ Matamata– 2016 / Middle Earth ~ Hobbiton – 2016 If you are a person who is deserving of friends and life in general then you probably love The Lord of the Rings. If you don’t then you are likely the person at parties who people try to avoid; and/or you enjoy boring said people to death…

  April 20, 2016

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• Useless tuk-tuk Tour (Cambodia)

  Cambodia ~ Siem Reap – 2016 I know it’s a little bit easy and uninspiring to do this, but I still feel it’s always a decent option to take a tour when you are in a new foreign country. I’m aware this goes against all of the present wisdom which suggests you should just cycle…

  March 27, 2016

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• Drowsy Layover (Malaysia)

  Malaysia ~ Kuala Lumpur – 2016 You often make bad decisions whilst travelling; especially so in hindsight. And of course by you I really mean me…and by me I mean a great lumbering buffoon who is simply trying to blame someone else for all his problems, or at the very least involve you in these calamities. Awfully sorry for dragging…

  March 1, 2016

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• Blood Sucking Leeches! (Nepal)

  Nepal ~ Pokhara – 2014 It was just another day in Nepal, like any other. You know – toilet trouble and searing heat…these are the things that a tourist encounters most vividly whilst spending time in this country. You feel like you want to go places, and that you should do things…but you are scared…

  November 30, 2015

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• Fringe Benefits (Scotland)

  Scotland ~ Edinburgh – 2014 The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the biggest arts festival in the entire world – the thing is huge! It has over 250 venues that are jam-packed with over 45, 000 varied performers! It is truly a colossal occasion that triples the city’s population in that single August month…year in, year…

  August 12, 2015

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• The Shining (Finland)

  Finland – Lapland ~ 2013 You know in The Shining? When Jack Nicholson goes a little bit bonkers (to put it very gently), due to being cut off in the middle of nowhere? And you are left wondering whether the character was always a little bit crazy, or if the icy conditions turned him that way…well…

  June 13, 2015

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• Public Pooping (China)

  China – Wuhan ~ 2012 A move to a different country is difficult, you have to contend with a different time zone, a different language and a whole different culture. It can be pretty hard, but eventually you adapt. You get to know the layout of your city; you get a favourite café, pub and a…

  June 13, 2015

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• Old Friends (Ireland)

  Galway ~ Ireland – 2013 I remember my automatic reaction when a (now ex)  lady-friend of mine suggested a spur of the moment mini-break to Ireland…we hadn’t even known each other for that long…I mean, we weren’t even an official thing (whatever that is!)  She could have been a mad-axe murderer, she could have hatched a…

  June 8, 2015

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• Frozen (Sweden)

  Sweden – Karesuando ~ 2013 “Live a little” – what does that phrase conjure up in your mind? For me it used to be something I would attribute to getting out, and doing things, experiencing, you know…living. I thought it was usually coupled with things that are a little reckless, or less than mature – for…

  June 7, 2015

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