2020 is a year we’ll never forget – mainly for all the wrong reasons – but there were a few moments in the past twelve months that brightened up what was very much a year of staying home and trying…
What Lockdown Has Taught Me About Travel
The last few weeks have been wild, haven’t they? I must admit, when I first heard about Coronavirus in Wuhan I selfishly and naively thought it wasn’t something that would ever affect us here in the UK. Just days later…
The Top 10 Destinations on My Bucket List
Since we’ve all been living in this travel-less lock-down, there’s nothing I’ve been thinking about more than going away. You always want something more when you can’t have it, don’t you? This bizarre period in our lives has got me…
Travel Plans for 2020
Updated June 2020 2020 was shaping up to be an insane year for travel. It was all going so well, and then COVID-19 (Coronavirus) hit the world. It’s fair to say that this pandemic has changed our plans fairly dramatically…
My Year in Travel: 2019 Edition
As the year (and decade!) comes to a gradual close, it’s time to review my travels of the year. And it’s safe to say that 2019 was by far my biggest year yet for travel! Every year I seem to…
Should We All Be Embracing Slow Travel?
For a while now I’ve been hearing about this thing called the slow travel movement. As someone who’s anything but a slow traveller, I’ve always thought it sounded boring and never bothered to learn about what it actually means. But…
My Top 5 City Breaks
When I was younger, a city break was a bit of a foreign concept to me. I’d been to cities as part of bigger holidays with family, but when I started booking my own holidays with Darryl, we always went…
Why I Chose Not to Go Travelling: Pros, Cons & Regrets
This is a post I’ve wanted to write for ages but haven’t really known how to, because I have really mixed feelings about this topic. Which I’m sure a lot of other people do too. It seems that taking a…
11 Travel Gifts I Got for Christmas
This post contains affiliate links (learn more) The days where I used to sit on the living room floor, flicking through the Argos catalogue and marking the pages of toys that caught my eye only feel like a few years…
Why I Started a Travel Blog & Who Inspired It
I’ll always remember the day I discovered Brooke Saward from the travel blog World of Wanderlust. This was during that point in my life where I was trying to pluck a career out of the sky because I thought I…
Travel Plans for 2019
Updated November 2019 If you read my 2018 review post then you’ll remember I said I had some mega travel plans for 2019. Well now I can’t stop booking trips and they’re all strong bucket list destinations for me! Here’s…
My Year in Travel: 2018 Edition
This travel blog of mine is great for life experience but terrible for my bank account, because every year I book more trips and use the excuse of needing more blog content. True story, but it’s a selfish excuse all…