If you like rants and ramblings, you’ve come to the right place, baby. Here are some of my top posts:
Travel musings & rants:
⭐ Should We Be Promoting Travel & Tourism?
⭐ I’ve Still Never Used Airbnb – Here’s Why
⭐ Why I’ve Given Up Counting Countries
⭐ Travel Doesn’t Have To Be Life-Changing – And That’s Okay
⭐ Why The Small Moments Of Travel Matter Too
⭐ Why It’s Important To Travel Now More Than Ever
Personal essays:
⭐ Why I DON’T Want To Be A Digital Nomad
⭐ How Travel Has Changed Me (Yada Yada)
⭐ A Decade Of Travel And How Things Have Changed
⭐ 10 Things I’ve Learned In 30 Years
⭐ The What Ifs: Alternative Lives Of Me
And some fun posts:
⭐ Visa & Immigration Stories From The Road
⭐ Silly Signs From Around The World
Read the rest of my rambles below!
Wow, 2020. What a shit storm, eh? I haven’t been on a single plane, I haven’t been home to Orkney since April 2019, we haven’t seen Ash’s parents in over a year. Who saw any of this coming? A year ago, we were celebrating what was undoubtedly going to be the best year of our …
July was a busy month after being in lockdown for so long – but I think August may just have been even busier! We’ve had friends to visit, we’ve taken trips to other cities, we’ve been on a train for the first time since January, and we’ve even been on a tour (a boat tour, …
A couple of times now, I’ve touched on the time we tried and failed to get into China, and almost always, I’ll get a handful of comments asking what happened. I always summarise the story as succinctly as I can, but truthfully it’s hard to tell the story properly in one quick comment. The story …
Having been stuck indoors for the past two months, our Japan trip cruelly ripped out from beneath us days before our departure date, to say I’m getting itchy feet is a massive understatement. For a while, I couldn’t think about travel. For one thing, we were focused on our wedding and putting contingency plans in …
Everything has been changing so quickly recently. The flowers and trees look different every time I leave the house. Last weekend, I went for a beautiful walk across the centre of Edinburgh, and my stroll was filled with purpose and positivity. Where we had been reeling first from cancelling our dream trip to Japan, to …
I’ve had a post in my drafts folder for months now, with just the title and nothing else. It’s called “Traveletti Alphabetti Spaghetti”, which perhaps I should have kept it as because it’s ridiculous, but this week a few people have been posting their “Alphabet Adventures” on Twitter, which, let’s face it, makes a lot …
A hell of a lot has changed this week, huh? We’ve gone from most-things-as-normal to everybody-stay-at-home in the space of a few days. Any other time, any other year, I wouldn’t have really minded. As of yesterday, pubs and restaurants are shut in the UK, but I can live with that. Working from home? Fine …
2019 has been all about the next huge step of our lives. It’s been about accepting the end of long-term travel adventures and embracing the new adventure of finding our forever home. For us, it was always going to be Edinburgh. We’ve been low-key planning to move to Edinburgh for pretty much the past decade …
Ten years ago, I was a fresh-faced 20-year-old with a hell of a lot ahead of me. In some ways, it feels like that was a lifetime ago; in others, I can’t believe it’s been a decade. There’s no denying that a lot has changed in the past ten years. I’ve learned a lot about …
Airbnb has been receiving a lot of press recently, and not all of it is good. In fact, I would go as far as to say not much of it has been good at all. I remember when Airbnb first started. Bloggers quickly began gushing about the experiences they’d had in someone’s home, and soon all …
