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…
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First Timers in Bangkok
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…
Sleeping With Strangers & Locked in a Basement in Warsaw
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,…
Tagged with: Adventure, Backpacking, Blog, Budget, Couch Surfing, couchsurfing, Europe, Poland, Travel, Warsaw
Posted in Blog, Countries, Europe, Poland
Posted in Blog, Countries, Europe, Poland
How We Made Friends Around the World Through Couchsurfing
If we could only give one travel tip to anybody – it would be Couchsurfing. Well it would actually be to steer clear of those overly friendly girls with suspiciously deep voices that you’ll meet in a Bangkok bar… but Couchsurfing…
Tagged with: Adventure, Backpacking, Couch Surfing, couchsurfing, Inspiration, Lifestyle, Travel
Posted in Articles, Guides, Lifestyle
Posted in Articles, Guides, Lifestyle
Krakow: Sightseeing, Sisha & The Scariest Moment of My Life
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…
Exploring Transylvania: Days Out with Happy Faces
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…
Tagged with: Adventure, Advice, Alba Iulia, Backpacking, Blog, Bran Castle, Brasov, Cetea, Cheile Turzii, Corvin Castle, Europe, Fortress, Happy Faces, Hiking, Ramet Monastery, Romania, Transfagarasan, Transylvania, Travel, Turda Salt Mine, Volunteering
Posted in Blog, Countries, Europe, Guides, Romania
Posted in Blog, Countries, Europe, Guides, Romania
Teaching English at a Romanian Summer Camp: Everything You Need to Know
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…
Tagged with: Alba Iulia, Backpacking, Featured, Romania, Summer Camp, Teaching, Teaching English, TEFL, Travel, Volunteering
Posted in Articles, Blog, Europe, Guides, Romania
Posted in Articles, Blog, Europe, Guides, Romania
Liebster Award!
We’ve been nominated for a Liebster award by the lovely Felicity from DistractedFlick! After reading her post we learned that this is a blogging award given out to bloggers, by bloggers that are new or don’t have a huge number followers.…
Road Trip Transylvania
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…
Tagged with: Adventure, Alba Iulia, Backpacking, Blog, Bran Castle, Brasov, Budget, Cheile Turzii, Cluj-Napoca, Dracula, Europe, Hitchhiking, Inspiration, Road Trip, Romania, Sibiu, Summer Camp, TEFL, Transfagarasan, Transylvania, Travel, Volunteering
Posted in Blog, Europe, Romania
Posted in Blog, Europe, Romania
The WOWliving Project
This week I was messaged on couchsurfing by Siyuan Bao, who worked as a media director in China and is looking for one thousand cool and interesting people to take part in her online project, WOWliving, targeted at people in her country…
We're two ordinary guys in our twenties who sold everything and left home with a one-way ticket in search of adventure.
