When I first started this blog, it was mostly a way to document my travels, but I am also a stringent saver and while most of my travels are on a budget, I always thought I'd have more of a focus on helping YOU save money for travel. I have touched on it before, but… Continue reading 50 Ways To Seriously Save Money To Travel
Category: travel tips
This covers all my posts with travel tips and resources! Most of them are for general travel, but I also have various posts on working and living abroad.
14 Things To Do While You’re Self-Isolating
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… Continue reading 14 Things To Do While You’re Self-Isolating
My Ultimate Guide To Couchsurfing: For Hosts & Surfers
"I don't know whether to admire you or just think you're insane." A colleague recently said this to me when I explained to him the concept of couchsurfing - as a lot of you may know, we've spent the last few months of "downtime" hosting people through it. By which I mean, travellers have been coming… Continue reading My Ultimate Guide To Couchsurfing: For Hosts & Surfers
Bad Pieces Of Advice Travellers Give Each Other
I'm part of a few backpacker and travel groups on Facebook - they're great tools for asking advice on destinations, and good for finding travelmates, secret spots, humour, money advice, visa options, places to stay, "help I'm in this situation", and everything else you can think of to do with travel. For the most part,… Continue reading Bad Pieces Of Advice Travellers Give Each Other
My Favourite Gift This Year: My El Camino Bracelet
It was my birthday last week (one step closer to 30 - eek!) and all the post was cancelled. I can thank Orkney's weather for that. So it was a lovely surprise this week to open a little package from one of my favourite travel gift companies, El Camino! El Camino specialises in making beautiful… Continue reading My Favourite Gift This Year: My El Camino Bracelet
Earning Money To Travel: Online Surveys
If there's one new years resolution you should have this year, it's to save money for that dream trip. And what better way to do that than earning money from the comfort of your own home? If you've ever looked into ways to earn money online, you've probably heard of filling in surveys. A lot… Continue reading Earning Money To Travel: Online Surveys
Saving Money On Your Travels Using Cashback
Today I'm sharing tips on how to save money using online cashback websites - a fantastic and free way to save money on all sorts of different things! Cashback is not a new thing - but it's something a lot of people forget exists. It's a great way to save money on all your online… Continue reading Saving Money On Your Travels Using Cashback
The Pros and Cons of Living in a Hostel
After months of travelling around hostels and changing beds every few days, we were looking forward to settling down in Brisbane and getting our own apartment. We spent five weeks (four weeks too many) living in a central hostel with a party atmosphere before moving to a laid-back "sharehouse"-type hostel closer to my work. Cut… Continue reading The Pros and Cons of Living in a Hostel
Weekend Wishlist: A Traveller’s Christmas
My mum has been asking what I'd like for Christmas, and with little over a month to go, I started drawing blanks. My go-to answer is always in the form of tours or activities or experiences, but the more I thought about it, the more I realised how many practical travel accessories I could do with.… Continue reading Weekend Wishlist: A Traveller’s Christmas
Budgeting For Your Southeast Asia Trip
In this post, I'm going to outline exactly how much this part of the trip cost us, and hopefully it will help some of you to budget what you need. I've been working on this for a while and meant to post it along with my other budgeting guides but didn't think it was ready.… Continue reading Budgeting For Your Southeast Asia Trip
An Orcadian Abroad 