We were sitting on the side of a road in the middle of Laos, with literally everything that we owned in the world packed into the bags lying next to us and we were waiting for two guys that we had never met before.
On reflection it sounds scary, but I didn’t feel scared or even worried. I can now see that this was the first time that I truly began to feel free.
Vientiane isn’t really what you’d expect from a South-East Asian capital city. There are no swarms of scooters plaguing the roads; no flashing neon signs for ping-pong shows or strip clubs; and no annoying guys trying to sell you a shitty James Bond style suit…
Getting shafted by a scam in Asia is just another part of the true backpacker experience nowadays. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try to avoid them if you can and save yourself more than a little money and several headaches…
Following in the footsteps of hordes of backpackers before us, we arrived in Bangkok to start our trip around Asia. We didn’t know at the time that we’d love it so much and we didn’t know we would end up spending over…
I’ll be honest, I’d never considered visiting Warsaw. I’d never even thought about visiting Poland. I wouldn’t know what to do there. But when we were sat searching for the cheapest way to get to Thailand from the summer camp in Romania,…
The infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau complex is the largest of all the concentration camps operated by the Third Reich of Nazi Germany and today remains as the most recognisable. An estimated 1.1 Million Jews, Poles, Romani and Soviet Soldiers were systematically murdered…
Poland’s second largest city, Krakow is one of the oldest cities in the country and is known for its historical architecture, which is beautiful and well preserved. More recently, the city is known for its role during World War II…
In Summer 2014 we spent seven weeks volunteering at Happy Faces summer camp in Transylvania, Romania. Aside from Dracula we had no idea what to expect, but we soon discovered that Romania has lots of cool and interesting places to…
Ever wondered what it’s really like to volunteer teaching English at a summer camp abroad? Well in Summer 2014, we both volunteered to teach English for 7 weeks at the kid’s summer camp in Romania, Tabara Happy Faces, you know, instead…
After our cross-dressing exploits, a couple of less wild weeks went by on camp. We went on a few trips with the children (I’ll write about those later), our new room-mate Rhia from Denmark arrived and Zahra, Rick and I were given…
We're two ordinary guys in our twenties who sold everything and left home with a one-way ticket in search of adventure.
