Travel tips and tricks

After being on the road for over 6 years and hitting over 50 countries, I’ve learnt a thing or two about how to travel.

Check out the posts below if you want to find out how to budget, what was spent, how to pack or even how to get started with travel in the first place. This is the place to come to find out how to do it!

Travelling to a green list country from the UK: 24 hours in Porto

Dan 29/05/2021

It’s finally legal to travel from the UK again! Yippee! The UK has a traffic light system in place for returning travellers, with only travellers

A Night On A Glacier (Long Read)

Dan 08/05/2021

One of the perks of my job in New Zealand was the helicopter flights onto the two glaciers. On my first day in the job I was told that if I was extremely lucky, I may be able to spend a night at one of the huts on the glacier. After spending nearly 18 months there I finally got the chance to spend a night in Chancellor Hut on Fox Glacier. Here’s what happened.

Strangest haircuts around the world

Dan 29/04/2021

To be honest, when I started thinking about a blog, I never thought that I would write one on haircuts. It’s such a mundane activity that you do all the time at home. But unless you travel for a long time (often REALLY long in the case of some people!) you are unlikely to experience this mundane task abroad.