Cuba, Colombia, Sri Lanka, and Jakarta are some of the destinations travellers are being told they’ll be heading to this year. But it’s not where to travel in 2015, it is how to travel in 2015 that’s important – and it’s more important than it’s ever been. One thing I’ve learnt in all the years … Read more
It’s nice to go shopping and buy presents for friends and family, have them open them and go “wow!” and all the rest, but that’s hard when you’re overseas at Christmas and away from loved ones and need to do your Christmas shopping online. Here’s our tips to finding gifts that give. These days there’s an … Read more
If you weren’t travelling vicariously with us on the twelve-month global grand tour that we completed this year, you may be wondering why we’ve been complaining in recent posts of being so tired. Well, we were busy. Very busy. For seven days a week for 12 months. Don’t believe us? Below are some statistics from our … Read more
Giving back to each of the places we visited this year was one of our goals of our grand tour, along with living like locals, doing and learning things, and travelling more sustainably. The aim was to enrich ourselves and travel more meaningfully as much as it was to show travellers the kinds of experiences … Read more
Most people take a holiday to relax not work, yet giving back to a place, rather than simply taking away – whether it be a bundle of beautiful memories or a suitcase of souvenirs – is the aim of a rising number of travellers, including ourselves. Tagging turtles for a conservation project, being a bear-keeper … Read more