“I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven’t seen, how much I’m not going to see, and how much I still need to see.” ― Carew Papritz
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Exactly 3 weeks from now, all my plans, thoughts, nerves and dreams of the last 5 years will come to fruition, when I touch down in Delhi and at last, begin my long term round-the-world trip! The next three weeks…
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