It’s around this time of year, that we start to feel a little down as the January blues set in. While the dark, cold nights can be depressing, they can also be an excellent opportunity to reevaluate our plans for the coming year! If you’re wondering how you can travel more and spend less in
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My Essential Items for Slow Travellers. Getting ready to travel post-corona? Heard about Slow Travel? After several long term backpacking trips abroad, one thing I’m regularly asked about is the contents of my backpack. For the last 10 years, I’ve travelled regularly for extended periods of time– and learnt a few tips along the way.
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Are you planning your post-covid backpacking escape but unable to decide on the right backpack? In this post, I review the Osprey Fairview 70 specifically as an ideal backpack for curvier women. So many backpacks out there, but still, it’s hard to find something that REALLY suits a curvier female frame. Plus, all that time
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2020. A year like no other. A pandemic hit the world, and at the same time I set off to travel around the world. Staying in India during the pandemic, there’s no doubt… 2020 was one of the most unexpectedly amazing years of my life. Despite not being able to explore the 25+ countries I’d
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“From midnight, the entire country shall be placed in a complete lockdown. No one may go out at all, police will guard the streets, so if you want to stay here, you must not leave the hostel” Those were the words of my hostel host who stood awkwardly in front of 60 bemused faces. It’s
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Just another crazy travel story… A few months ago, I quit my job and bought a one-way ticket to travel around the world. Go ahead and laugh at my timing. I know. On March 11th 2020, just 2 days into my long-awaited trip, I arrived in Delhi when the World Health Organisation declared that Coronavirus was
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The Black Travel Movement is gaining momentum across the globe. Yet during my 5-month lock-down in India so far, I have had little-to-no interaction with other Afro-Caribbean travellers. Like most, I am accustomed to this reality and typically, I do not dwell on it. But, when George Floyd’s murder grabbed the attention of the world in
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Aloo paratha is a North- Indian specialty that defines simply delicious Indian food. One of my favourites, aloo paratha is a traditional Indian breakfast comprising of grated potato, red onion, chilli and mixed Indian spices filling that is packaged into a fried whole-wheat flatbread. A practical, cheap, and tasty dish, Aloo Paratha is a must
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Well what a wild start to this journey that was! Just a month ago I was boarding a plane to India, bawled my eyes out saying goodbye to loved ones and the world still felt relatively normal… Yet, three days after I arrived in Delhi, the W-H-O declared COVID-19 as a global pandemic, and President
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It was March 2019, and I was sat in a pool in a local pousada in Paraty, Brazil when ‘Beauty in a Backpack’ sprouted from the depths of my thoughts. Besides being slightly fuzzy-headed from 3 days of rum pouring, sound systems blazing, and eccentric outfits at the colourful Rio carnival. With a few moments
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