Reclaiming My Future

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 [...]

After reading Heather’s round-up up of the World Travel Market last week, I figured I would add my ‘less experienced/beginners’ thoughts on how I felt it went. Read Heather’s article from her experienced point of view and then read mine from a ‘blogging beginner’ – it will make more sense. The World Travel Market was [...]

A few years back, everyone got introduced to Matt and his incredibly drunk-looking (but stone cold sober) dancing with ‘Where the hell is Matt?’ Let me introduce you to the new generation: 5 days ago an unknown, independent film maker by the time of Rick Mereki from Australia uploaded a video to Vimeo that went [...]

And so, yesterday I received my first truly negative comments. And it wasn’t just ‘I don’t like your site’, it was an entire character assassination. I like to be liked…everyone does. When I put myself out there with my honest posts I was afraid that people wouldn’t understand where I was coming from; they wouldn’t [...]

My blog has two birthdays (yes, just like the Queen; it’s that important!)…the first one is May 2009 when I set it up for family and friends to follow me as I prepared, then went, backpacking solo around South East Asia for three months. Although my writing was average, there’s no SEO and I used [...]

I was walking around the bookstore at the weekend trying to pick out my reading for Africa and it suddenly dawned on me (like the metaphorical lightbulb) that there is something terribly romantic about the written word. About putting pen to paper and allowing your thoughts and emotions to spill out on to the page. [...]

*that’s a blip on a graph not a sea creature I’m not normal; I think that’s pretty self-explanatory from the way I write.  But what I’ve realised over recent months is that I’m not normal in my social circle either.  I had very little in common with my family and friends even before I went [...]

I say short telescope because I’ve only really been getting back into blogging in recent months (shocking I know) but I’ve somehow managed to write a few impacting posts so here goes my 7 links with Tripbase… My most beautiful: Where my story first began… Whilst I only published this post earlier this week it [...]

A couple of great announcements I’m super happy to make today… When I’m in Africa I’ll be blogging for myself but also in partnership with Acacia Africa, the company I’m travelling with! Obviously with only occasional (and often slow) internet access, I will write updates when I can but it’s when I return that the [...]