These posts might cover anything from packing tips and transport lowdowns to useful travel gadgets and gear we’re using.
How to experience the real Dubai isn’t all that hard when you know how – you just need to leave the side of your five-star hotel swimming pool and take a stroll through Old Dubai to soak up some of the emirates’ long rich history and explore the everyday neighbourhoods where the locals live. Skip … Read more
We’ve got lots of living like locals resources on slowing down and settling in to places when you travel, from scores of reviews of apartments and holiday rentals that we’ve stayed in to tips on everything from renting riads in Morocco to how to save money when self-catering. Our long term aim is to provide … Read more
While you might love the idea of being spontaneous when you travel, do you really want to spend the time you could be out exploring on a device planning your onward travel? Here’s how much planning you should you do before you travel so you’re not spending your trip in your hotel room. The walls in … Read more
Spending a holiday in a villa rental with family or friends can be very special. But things can also go horribly wrong. Thankfully, after many years of experience staying in holiday rentals we know how to avert disasters. Here are our tips to renting a holiday villa with family or friends. We shared many delicious … Read more
Slow travel is the best budget travel secret we can share. At the time of writing this, we had been on the road travelling continuously and living out of suitcases for seven years. Travellers often asked us what our travel secret was, how we funded our travels, and how we managed to travel for so … Read more