Everyone likes saving money. And it’s never more important then when on the road. So here are 5 simple tricks to save money when traveling. But first, how am I qualified to write this post? Well, I like saving money so much that if I want to buy something that costs over $100, I have…
As a British person, I’m not supposed to celebrate 4th of July. It celebrates one of our greatest embarrassments: one of our best colonies got away. Me celebrating America’s freedom is like a rich white person celebrating the end of slavery. It’s illogical. But then I realised it doesn’t matter. If America wants to have a…
I’m moving to New York tomorrow. I start with that simple statement because as I write this I’ll keep looking at it and hopefully it’ll finally sink in that it’s actually happening. It’s been months (or what feels like months) of paperwork and documents and visa shenanigans and emails and calls with my HR department to…
Let’s get right to it. Peruvian food is delicious. So I’m going to write about 5 of the best Peruvian food items you should check out. Many years ago I spent three months volunteering with crees in the Amazon Rainforest in Peru. I’ve written a bit about it before – here and here, for example – but…
Street hawkers, also known as street sellers, street vendors, and the most godforsaken spawn of satan ever to walk the earth, are rampant in Morocco, especially the main tourist cities of Marrakech and Fez. At first I was polite, then turned to ignoring them, then I noticed something: these street traders kept coming back to the same rehearsed…
I was wandering aimlessly along the canals, snapping a few photos of the cute bridges and the rows of patchwork houses, when I noticed a shop sign that proudly announced it was “The Most Vibrating Shop”. I’d accidentally wandered into the Amsterdam red light district. Before I realized where I was, the sign piqued my…
Christmas markets in Budapest are, in principle, some of the most magical places you can be. In practicality, they’re busy and you slosh wine all over your coat. The snowfall was patchy and half-hearted, like a 50-year-old woman’s attempt at giving up her 40-a-day habit. It came down in a flurry for a few minutes…
My guide for the day stopped the motorbike at the side of this muddy, rural road somewhere in east Vietnam and peed against a post next to an overgrown war memorial. “47 villagers were shot here when the Americans came,” he said, to disguise the crackling of warm liquid on leaves. “They slaughtered everyone in…
Vietnam has a lot of riches to see and explore. Here’s what to expect on an overnight tour of Ha Long Bay in the north of the country. Ha Long Bay in northern Vietnam is one of the new 7 Natural Wonders of the World. I did a one-night, two-day tour, spending the night on…
This is my experience riding a Vietnam sleeper train from Hanoi to Da Nang. In short: train bad, people good, especially Welsh people. Any traveller will say that the best part of travel is the meeting of awesome people. They’ll either tell you in person if you’re unlucky enough to have a travel-addict friend that…