Getting around in a foreign city or country can be challenging. Your GPS may be slow to work or it may not work at all. To make sure that you always know exactly where you’re going – and exactly how…

If you have decided to travel on your own, you will have a great chance to learn more about yourself while seeing a new place. Being on your own as you travel means that you will be able to completely…

There are few things more region specific than food, which is why it’s not unusual for people to vacation to regions known for a particular type of food. It’s known to them, they like it and they look forward to…

I find the best vacations are those that ignite all of your senses but in particular, it’s the sense of smell that really adds to the appeal. There is a fair body of evidence that suggests your sense of smell…

There are a lot of people out there who strive to attain a simplicity in their life that only comes from living in a highly complicated world. Maybe it’s a counter culture to our highly structured, urbanized lives or an…

  These days the most likely of travel companions isn’t a good pair of shoes or a bag but a tablet, laptop or smart phone and it’s a result of the age we live in. We have become so obsessed…

  It’s amazing how what you consider to be travel isn’t at all what someone else does. Take tour groups for example. There are a lot of people who only travel as part of an organized group, complete with guide…

  It seems like every traveller has their preferred way of getting around and to suggest doing something different would be borderline blasphemous. A lot of it stems from what you’re used to or even just what you started out…

  There is this temptation among travellers to cast off the weight of the world, unplug from the grid and just get lost for a while when they are on the road. It’s very appealing to just tell people ‘I…

Budgeting sucks but it’s a reality of travelling. Everyone does it differently and some people avoid it altogether but it’s always there – reminding us of the limits of our means. This can either be because of a time constraint…