When I arrived in Sydney, I had only two things on my agenda: 1. Buy myself an iPhone. 2. To visit as many famous landmarks as possible in 48 hours. Getting the iPhone was easy. Sydney’s Apple Store was close to where we were staying so five minutes after we arrived I found myself reconnected to the online world. By this point I had been travelling for 18 months without a phone and whilst... 
If you’ve been reading some of my latest posts then you’ll know that I’ve crammed a hell of a lot of travel into the past six months. My time in Southeast Asia was wonderful, as always, with the highlights being chilled out Otres Beach in Cambodia, finally getting to witness the Yi Peng festival in Thailand, a crazy scooter road trip around the Mekong Delta… And then Australia and... 
Unsurprisingly, much like my previous summary, this past month has been jam-packed with fast-paced travel, very little rest (or work!) and heaps of beautiful scenery. At the end of last month I’d just finished up in the North Island and was exhausted, tired of travelling and wondering how I would cope with continuing on at the same pace for a month in the South Island. Here’s how it went! I... 
“Is there anywhere you’re really desperate to visit in Australia?” Dave was busy planning out the route for our month in Australia and I had done no research. Racking my brain for a few minutes, I desperately tried to remember friends’ Australia photo albums on Facebook I had once enviously pored over. “Ooh! Yes! That, erm… the, um… you know? Those rocks sticking... 
It had been a long time coming. I left England back in 2011 with a Working Holiday Visa for Australia and a plan to fly to Sydney within the first six months of my travels. I’d spend a year working and exploring, building up my travel fund and enjoying being an expat with a stable life and fixed routine. That, as you know, did not happen. I instead decided to head to ridiculously cheap Chiang Mai,... 
I recently spent ten days on a scooter road trip around the Mekong Delta with Dave and Stuart, similar to the one we did in Northern Thailand last year. Our time in the Delta was filled with rice paddies, river ferries, bad roads and, well, people carrying strange things on the back of their bikes. It began just outside of Saigon. As I was happily snapping photos of the changing scenery from the back of... 
When it finally came time for Dave and I to drag ourselves away from Otres Beach, we needed a break. Though living on the beach had been wonderful and relaxing, we had still spent the majority of our time chained to our laptops. Dave and I have managed to carve out a wonderful life for ourselves, one where we can have our office located on a beach with our lunch breaks spent swimming in the sea, but we... 
My nineteenth month of travel was all about moving too fast and doing too much — you may have noticed this by the fact that I disappointingly only managed to post twice this month! The combination of moving quickly and terrible, slow, expensive internet in New Zealand ($18 for 6 hours use, anyone?) has meant that I’ve been mostly unable to work on anything over the last four weeks. It has,... 
When I first visited Cambodia, I foolishly only allowed myself four days to spend in the entire country. I spent all of my time exploring the temples of Angkor and didn’t venture outside of Siem Reap. Despite having seen only a tiny, tiny part of the country over such a short time period, I instantly fell in love with Cambodia and left wishing I had more time, desperate to see more. So when Dave and... 
When I decided to return to Thailand six months after leaving, it would have been easy to head straight to Chiang Mai and spend two weeks revisiting my favourite haunts. However, I always like to visit somewhere new each time I return to a country and there’s a whole area of Thailand between Bangkok and Chiang Mai that I’ve never seen. Ayutthaya and Sukhothai, two ancient cities were the first... 
In July 2011 I left England for what was supposed to be a one year trip around the world. Within a few months of leaving I knew that a year would never be enough. I now work online and travel permanently, seeking misadventures in unique, beautiful and fascinating places. Read more.
I'm here to show you how not to travel. Since I've been on the road I've been "poked" during a massage in Bangkok, punched a scammer in Shanghai, been attacked by monkeys in Bali, sat next to a dead woman on a boat in Laos and so much more. I call these The Incidents and you can see a full list of them here.
