Notre Dame Montreal

Montreal is a beautiful city in the French Canadian province of Quebec. I enjoyed my time here immensely and spent several hours a day, for two weeks, walking around its picturesque, colourful streets. Despite having a tight budget, as I was getting to the end of my Canada travels, I was never bored and found [...]

canada

Getting a working holiday visa for Canada is a great way to supplement your travels. If you are from the UK and are aged 18-30, you could be eligible for the International Experience Canada (IEC) scheme. This allows work and travel in this vast North American country for a year. However, going through the application [...]

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Farm work was alien to me up until a couple of weeks ago when I began my first ever stint as a WWOOFer.

saving for travel

I have wanted to go travelling for a long time. Ever since I got back from several months in Australia in 2005, I knew this would not be my last stint of wanderlust.

YouTube screen

I really enjoy writing about my travels and taking photographs. But I have always been fascinated by the power of videos to take you right to a location.

pennies

A reader recently asked me how I was getting on saving up for my six-month trip to Canada and the USA. So I thought it would be good to start doing reports on my fundraising progress and provide details on how I have been earning some extra cash in the run up to the date [...]

I missed this colourful underwater world  because of sea sickness

Travel is my biggest passion. But it has also made me sick to the stomach on many occasions. As a child, I was always the one who ended up with my head in a plastic bag on school coach trips. My parents were always prepared for my predictable spells of travel sickness whenever we drove [...]

Coin Dropping Into Piggy Bank

Travelling is fun, liberating, eye-opening and life changing. It is also expensive. Unless you have tirelessly saved up for years, or are fortunate enough to be well off/have a high-paid job, most people who want to travel long-term have to find ways of making money and cutting costs along the way. Here are some ways [...]

hostels

I have stayed in a lot of hostels whilst travelling – mostly when I went backpacking in Australia for six months. There are a number of things to consider before booking hostels…