Reclaiming My Future

If you ask people where they want to go on their adventures, their answer will be ‘travel the world’ but most people don’t really mean it, I know I don’t and you probably don’t either. In case you haven’t noticed, the world is pretty big. There’s a lot of ground (and sea) to cover and [...]

A huge thanks goes to Monica of The Travel Hack and Erik of On my feet or in my mind for tagging me in this super fun game of kiss chase A-Z of travel! Let’s begin the lesson shall we?… A: Age you went on your first international trip: 10 with my dad and grandma [...]

It’s been an eye-opening year for me in so many ways. In January I joined Twitter. Well, I’d joined twitter in March the year before actually but couldn’t be bothered with it…yeah I know, I’m a dumbass. So in January I sent a tweet. Then I got a reply. Then I got some followers and [...]

Almost the entire world and their dead grandparents seems to be on Facebook these days but you know that we all have things that makes us think ‘I hate Facebook!’. Here’s why… I hate Facebook because… You send me friend requests from people I don’t know. We all get them. You see the notification and [...]

I don’t particularly like Christmas. Well I do, I just get so sick of the long-winded run-up to it that I feel it’s lost its magic but I’ve now discovered my own random reasons for enjoying it: – Alcohol (all day) From the moment you wake up alcohol can touch your lips without thinking you [...]

With a recent trip to the Big Smoke under my belt, I realised that whilst it’s a necessity, I really do hate the London Underground with a passion. Here’s why:

*Ok, so maybe a ‘slight’ exaggeration on the whole dying front but I can assure you that I felt like it at the time! Picture this…it’s 5.30am.  It’s pitch black in the campsite, you’re trying to get ready in the dark and the moment you step out of the tent you put your BARE FOOT [...]

Whenever you think of Africa and going to the toilet, you probably think about awful long-drop toilets that stink with flies swarming around and you’d be right…some of the time. For the rest of the time, when overlanding, you’re going to be using a totally different kind of toilet that looks a lot like this: [...]

Hi All, I literally have no time to update sadly. I have just half an hour before we head out to dinner where we get to try all sorts of game meat from Zebra Springbok, Ostrich and Oryx to name just a few – uber cool. Well, so what have I been up to for [...]

So it’s been a week and we need to catch up with each other. I have to warn you, however, that the internet is shocking in this part of the world so sadly there won’t be any photos because I can’t upload them. Keep checking out my Facebook page to see if I can upload [...]