I couldn’t believe it: a monkey had shat in my breakfast. It was the morning of my hike up Mount Nyiragongo, and I couldn’t help but worry this was a bad omen. My friends and I were nervous enough as it was about the climb. We’d spent the night at …
I kicked off July by falling in love. After giving myself permission to stop putting everything I had into visiting everysinglecountryintheworldrightnow, I reduced the pressure in my brain enough that I could turn my attention to returning to my homeland. The U.K. has been a sorely neglected travel destination in …
The first thing I noticed was the normality. As I inched a tentative toe across the border between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, I half expected to have a bag thrown over my head by a group of militia rebels, disappearing off the face of the earth …
“It’ll be worth it at the top,” I whispered over and over as grains of sand whipped against my calves. Gritting my teeth, I battled against the winds to climb ever higher, one step forwards and two slips back, desperate for a view to rival all others; convinced it would be …
You may have noticed I’ve been a little quiet on my social media channels over the past couple of weeks. The truth is: I’ve been embarrassed as hell. Ten days ago, I laced up my hiking boots, stuffed my backpack full of energy bars, pulled on my rain jacket, and …
I’d never seen a road like it. And yes, I do realise every single one of my Namibia posts has had some kind of comment on the quality of the roads in them, but this one was seriously bad. After spending an incredible day at Vingerklip, part of me was wondering …
I’m calling it: 2017 is going to be my best year of travel. Oh god, I’ve just jinxed it, haven’t I? Fuck. I can’t believe I’m now going to die while travelling and someone will write an article titled, Author of How Not to Travel the World Dies While Travelling the …
I finally made it to Zanzibar. After years of dreaming, I spotted some cheap flights to Tanzania, snapped them up within minutes, and began to plan my getaway to the Spice Island. The first thing to surprise me was that Zanzibar was cheap. Stone Town, especially, was easy to check out on a budget. Typically, …
I know, right? That’s a weirdass title for a blog post. But here’s the thing: for the past five years or so, this has been one of my goals in life. I’ve never shared it publicly until now, but I’ve always had in the back of my mind that I …
It was an unintentional splurge. Every time I buy flights to a new country, you see, I aim to make my trip as inexpensive as possible. I start off looking at hostels to see which one would be a good fit for me, then — just to get an idea of …
I’m excited about this post. You guys know I’m all about confessing up to my mistakes and sharing the stupid things I’ve done over the years. Well, at the start of the year, I did an AMA on Nomadic Matt’s forum and one of the questions I was asked was about whether I had …
