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When I arrived in Split after backpacking for weeks across the Balkans, I noticed an interesting shift. Whereas in other places I would meet mostly travellers with backpacks (especially inland), here…
Sat on the floor of San Pedro Belize’s immigration office, I had no idea that five months and six countries later, I’d be eating Christmas dinner with the same group of travellers in Colombia. Chaotic…
Yes, you need an eSIM for Croatia — even though it seems like everywhere has wifi! From cafes in Split to apartments in the hills of Dubrovnik, it seems like the wifi card is just about everywhere. Bu…
And everything else that happened in September
How three days in Edinburgh changed the way I saw the city
There are ways of romanticizing Cairo, but I want to be clear from the get-go: it is, on the whole, a rather dirty and ugly city. The suburbs in particular, which I usually witnessed from a taxi windo…
Hidden away on the South Sinai coast, Dahab is the kind of place I didn’t know Egypt had. In a land where most tourists will cruise the Nile on a luxury boat (often as part of a package holiday) or st…
Entering the Giza archaeological zone for the first time, I’d been bracing myself for the worst. For years I’d been hearing how the world’s most famous monument is actually far from a revelatory exper…
Visiting Cairo for Ancient Egypt’s wonders used to mean traveller’s whiplash — wonder one moment, frustration the next. Egypt’s awe-inspiring past would constantly collide with the harsh reality of st…
I just returned from one of the best adventures of my multi-month Central Asia trip. While planning the trip, I saw photos of the epic Mangystau landscape peppered with colourful rock formations and h…
Are you ready for a BIG monthly recap? Because it doesn’t get any bigger than this. My dear readers, I visited my 100th country. Botswana. I’ve been working toward this travel goal for many years, and…
How to survive your first weeks with humor, your sanity, and remembering why you decided to move to foreign lands.
I just spent almost a month in Almaty, and I fell in love with this beautiful, safe, pleasant and green city. At first, I thought I had too much time in Almaty. I had allocated myself 3 months for Cen…
My month in Kazakhstan was peppered with highlights, including camping in the wild and wonderful Mangystau region and taking day hikes from Almaty. I was also impressed by the liveability and abundant…
When many people who haven’t yet travelled to Asia think of Vietnam, their minds instantly flash to images of chaos. The Vietnamese eat dogs. It’s a lawless and dangerous country. The traffic is a com…
Two weeks is the perfect amount of time for first-time visitors to Japan. I love this country, and it has so much to offer its guests. With so many incredible places to check off, however, planning an…
Between hikes and side trips, I spent over a week in Karakol. When I wasn’t adventuring, I was doing what I do best: eating amazing food! I needed the sustenance since I did plenty of hiking. I did th…
A glimpse into when the second partner retires
Plus some weird stories from 70+ house sits
I’ve lived in Vietnam for over a decade and love my home city of Saigon, but even I admit that Hanoi is the country’s best city for tourists. It’s just so culturally vibrant, walkable, and full of gor…