My first few moments in a new city are spent comparing it to places I’ve been to before. It’s a bad habit that I seem to have developed over the course of the past ten months and to be…
CITY BREAKS
After just under seven months weaving our way across and around the USA, it was time to temporarily say goodbye to America and embrace the behemoth land that is Canada. Neither of us had even thought about what we…
Standing on the corner of Goodge Street in central London, ten months ago I reluctantly waved goodbye to my friend Lucy. Under strict instruction not to open the card she had left for me until I got on the…
Those of our friends who had spent their gap years travelling had told us ahead of our trip that we would make many travelling buddies during our Inca to Inuit adventure. Arriving at our first hostel in Huanchaco, Peru…
Both Jake and I come from fairly traditional families each with our own quirky take on festive tradition. For Jake it’s a BBQ brunch in the woods on Christmas day, for me, it’s an Easter Sunday of competitive  egg…
Sitting at the bar of a brewery in Glens Falls, New York, beers in one hand, burgers in the other, we poured over our map planning the next step of our adventure. It was decided, we would head North to…
Having spent the past two weeks bed bound and on a liquid diet of chicken broth and water, it was time to get back out into the World and start exploring again. We left Memphis and headed for Nashville.…
We had now been travelling around the USA for almost a month. The fair weather tent we had purchased for the odd camping adventure had now become our full-time home. In an effort to stem spending we toured from…
We had planned to spend six days exploring the delights that Rio has to offer, however, one sickness bug and four days of bed rest left us with 48 hours to explore as much of the Rio tourist trail…
What better place to end our five-month South American adventure than in Rio de Janeiro. The home of sugared white sands, Sugarloaf mountain, samba, plastic surgery and the skimpiest of swimwear. After enduring our final South American bus journey…