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,…
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Sleeping With Strangers & Locked in a Basement in Warsaw
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
A Disappointing Day at Auschwitz
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…
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
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…
Camp Life Becomes a Drag
<< Part 3: We’ll get to the part where I’m in a dress soon enough… But first update yourself on the story so far in my previous blog ‘Happy Faces in Romania‘. Our first week on camp was much less…
Tagged with: Alba Iulia, Backpacking, Blog, Drag Queen, Drag Show, Europe, Romania, Summer Camp, Talent Show, Teaching English, TEFL, Travel, Volunteering
Posted in Blog, Europe, Romania
Posted in Blog, Europe, Romania
Auf Wiedersehen Manchester!
It’s now November 2014 and this year has gone faster than I ever imagined. Maybe I should’ve written a blog earlier, but I never was a fan of writing too much, I’m more of a spontaneous kinda guy who doesn’t find…
Tagged with: Adventure, Backpacking, Brazil, Carnaval, Europe, Germany, Hannover, Rio De Janeiro, Teaching English, TEFL, Tourism, Travel, UK, Volunteering
Posted in Articles, Europe, Rick, UK
Posted in Articles, Europe, Rick, UK
Happy Faces in Romania
<< Part 2: Homeless in Budapest Romania, the home of gypsies, thieves and scrap metal dealers. This is a country which basically serves as a holding room for people waiting to come to the UK to sponge our benefits and (for the few…
Tagged with: Alba Iulia, Backpacking, Blog, Europe, Romania, Summer Camp, Teaching English, TEFL, Travel, Volunteering
Posted in Blog, Europe, Romania
Posted in Blog, Europe, Romania
We're two ordinary guys in our twenties who sold everything and left home with a one-way ticket in search of adventure.
