I initially thought that my second attempt at moving abroad would be just as successful as my first. By which I mean spending a few glorious weeks in the sunshine before disaster struck and I was forced to return back to the uk once again. And, if a messed up semester abroad had been enough […]
Read More Celebrating my one year anniversary in BaliIf there’s one thing that Corona has taught me, it’s that I’m never really satisfied. And also that I’m endlessly itching to go somewhere new. Someone coined the phrase “relocation addiction” the other day and it stuck with me, because that’s exactly what it feels like. So being stuck in one place and not being […]
Read More I miss all the mundane parts of travellingIt’s funny how such normal activities fill me with joy thanks to this whole “global pandemic” thing. Yesterday, one of my favourite coffee shops on the island reopened (takeaway and delivery only, of course) so a small group of us went for lunch. We placed our orders and sat on the beach for a few […]
Read More Waiting out the COVID-19 pandemic on a remote Indonesian islandI couldn’t help but laugh when, during my first week on Gili T, one of the girls I was on a night out with got so drunk she couldn’t stand up. Not because she was drunk (we’ve all been there) but because, instead of calling her an Uber or finding the nearest night bus to […]
Read More Finding a new normal: Central London to Gili TrawanganCan you believe I’ve spent more than a month in Bali already? I arrived here on January 19 and time has absolutely flown by. I’ve spent a month learning digital marketing skills and now it’s time to put them to the test on Gili T. Today’s the day: I’m off to the Gili Islands! I’m […]
Read More Waving goodbye to Bali and hello to Gili TConsidering I only left for Cambodia around three weeks ago, it feels like an endless amount of time has passed since I was mosquito-bite free. Along with returning with a nice tan, I’m also heading back to the UK as basically one giant mosquito bite that no amount of anti-histamines can fix. This is a […]
Read More 18 days night bussing it through CambodiaI’m writing this post on the second flight of my third long haul trip of 2019 and my second trip to south east Asia of 2019. Currently, I’m sat on a plane somewhere above Hong Kong, flying from China’s Shenzhen to Phnom Penh in Cambodia. This is my final trip of the year that’s seen […]
Read More A year in travel: 2019
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