My whole life has been based around travel.

I’ve lived in 7 different countries during my life and I wouldn’t be the person I am today without my ‘ex-pat’ upbringing. Back in 2017, just after I’d graduated university and had officially joined the pool of thousands of unemployed graduates, I had two choices. I could have either, entered the rat-race of starting a grad job in London and living in some god-awful box room in Clapham, scraping together enough money to eventually move into a slightly bigger box room, while trying to maintain a social life as well as my sanity. But instead, I decided that 22 is just too young to start the rest of my life and the world is just too large to leave it to my 20 days of holiday a year to explore it all.

So now you know why I’m decided to travel, but why the blog?

If I’m completely honest, first and foremost it’s for me – for a couple of reasons;

1. I like having a task to complete – I’m a big fan of lists and being busy. As much fun as experiencing all of these cultures, places, and people, and most likely getting drunk quite a lot, I do actually like being productive now and again so this just seemed like the best way to do it.
2. Realistically, I need a way to remember all the fabulous things I will be doing. It’ll also be quite funny to look back on when I’m 40.
3. This is much easier than explaining to each relative and friend what I’ve got up to recently, instead I can just send them a link…

My initial year-out plan had been to start with 6 weeks in South-East Asia, followed by going back to London to earn a bit of money before heading to New Zeland and Australia for 6 months and finishing a couple weeks in Bali. I had also planned to go to India after a few weeks back in the UK to regain some energy.

Since then, this blog has evolved into something I add to every time I travel a new country. I won’t be able to take a full year out real life again soon but that doesn’t mean I can’t travel.

If you’ve made it to the end of this, welcome! Follow along for handy-tips and tricks and for the good, the bad and the ugly of what travelling really involves.