This is a guest post by Jade Johnston from Our Oyster I was born in the 80′s, and my first awareness of geopolitical issues began during the cold war. I lived in Canada, and the controversy at the time revolved around US missile bases located near the Canadian border, vigilantly pointed towards the dreaded USSR. [...]

Welcome to another Friday Five segment of the y Travel Cafe World Travel Podcast. This week we are sharing with you 5 of our working holiday stories. As most of you know a working holiday is how we have managed to travel the world for as long as we have. We have lived and worked [...]

“Ready for the mud walk today?” Stilts plonked himself down at the table wuith a plate full of bacon and eggs, a hearty start to a long day out on the water. A gleeful chuckle followed. Mud walk or not, every day on Kuri Bay Pearl Farm was his greatest adventure. The air raid siren [...]

World Travel Podcast Episode 4 of the Friday Five. This week we decided to open up and share with you some more about us. We talk about five things you didn’t know about us. What are we going to reveal? You will have to listen and see. A small hint of what you will hear [...]

This is a guest post written by Neil from Backpacks and Bunkbeds Not everyone is as lucky as some of us and are able to travel the world – we have little to complain about. On occasions, however, there will be an experience so hideous that you’ll wonder if it’s worth it, whether being back [...]

There isn’t a city I feel safer in than London. This is a result of my two years living in London, even during the time when IRA bomb scares and actual bombings were going on. On my first day in London, an announcement came on the Tube that the next station was closed due to [...]

You go traveling around the world and you think you are free to be yourself because no body knows who you are right? Wrong. The world is not as large as you really think, and the more you start to travel the more you realize that the world is tiny. Having unexpected encounters with people [...]

Best travel blog posts for the week. Some great travel stories, travel inspiration, travel destinations, travel tips, travel thoughts, and travel photos

Best travel blog posts for the week. Some great travel stories, travel inspiration, travel destinations, travel tips, travel thoughts, and travel photos

This ‘Sunrise over Mt Bromo in Java, Indonesia’ travel story is part of my Journal Extracts series. These are stories taken from my travel journals that span across 14 years of travel. Bear in mind that I do edit and clean up each post a little. The alarm burst into its ear-piercing screech at 2:30am. [...]