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There is nothing more enriching than broadening your horizons with travel. Meeting new people and experiencing new cultures can open your eyes in ways that reading about them never will. However, there are a few precautions to take to ensure a safe, enjoyable trip. (more…)
When you’re traveling long haul, you’ll often want to prepare for your trip in a different way to just a short flight. Not only may the things you take with you be different, but the way that you behave before the trip and on the flight can be different too.
So if you have a long-haul flight coming up and you want to make sure that you’re prepared properly, here’s what to do. (more…)
One of the things I immediately wanna do when I arrive in a new country is going online. I admit it. I’m an online business owner. I’m a travel blogger, I need to confirm my mum that I’ve arrived and I want to check Google Maps. Getting a local sim card is not always an option or an expensive option, so I’m SO grateful for portable wifi devices.
Hello private wifi, bye bye hackable open wifi networks that don’t work anyway!
The challenge with traveling, of course, is that it can be expensive. It often requires taking time out of your job too, which means there’s an intrinsic limit to how many days a year you can actually travel – whereas, if your job involves travel, as one of its fundamental elements everything changes.
If you’re someone that loves travel or are looking for a more exciting career that allows you to see the world, then these three jobs for people that love to travel are going to be right up your street.
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Vacations are supposed to be a relaxing time, but they don’t always pan out that way. More often than not, your getaways will be more stressful than they need to be, and that’s before you even leave your home and head out on your travels.
To avoid such problems, you need to resolve to do things that’ll get you as ready for your next vacation as you can possibly be. Keep on scrolling if you want to find four hacks that’ll help you to get holiday-ready in as stress-free a way as possible. (more…)
Luxury travel is synonymous with wealth, but with today’s focus on wellness and the increased choice when it comes to how you travel and when that preconception is no longer the hard truth. You can enjoy luxury travel on any budget with the right planning and know-how. Don’t ever assume you are barred from the type of travel you want, instead, plan in advance, budget appropriately and save so that you can enjoy yourself year after year: (more…)
Whether you are new to traveling or have been on the road for months on end, every traveler needs a kit full of trusted tools. It can be anywhere from extra toilet paper, a backup hard drive for pictures, or anything else that is useful while traveling.
Have you considered adding a VPN (Virtual Private Network) to your travel checklist? (more…)
Traveling around a city can be a fun, leisurely experience, a hurried commute, or a stressful navigation. There are many methods to traveling in a city, and many options available to you. Public transport abounds, as does the use of sidewalks, bike lanes, and roads. However, we all learn very quickly that the population density found in cities can sometimes be difficult to cope with. Travelling could become something that would otherwise be a pleasant time of transit at a time you need to exercise your full powers of concentration to get through.
On top of that, caring for your safety first is one of the wisest considerations to think. Sometimes getting to your destination a little later to ensure this can be more than worth the effort. Even the most experienced and street-wise person can learn a thing or two from brushing up on their safety habits when traveling in a populated area. For the traveler entering new cities and learning new environments, safety tips are absolutely essential.
To learn and know these, bloat will give the opposite intended effect. Practical city dwelling tips must be fast, easy to remember and possible to apply without much practical thought. For that reason we have compiled a small guide to wise and safe city travel, and it is as follows: (more…)
The idea of a “mini-retirement” was first made popular by Tim Ferriss’ in his New York Times bestselling book; the 4 Hour Work Week. This book, despite its title, doesn’t encourage people to just work four hours a week. It’s all about changing their paradigm from one of being a wage slave where more is better, to focus on how to propagate “quality of life” in the sense of having both the time and money to be “free”.
Make sure you read my Beginner’s Guide To F.I.R.E (Financial Independent Retire Early)
One of the core concepts, suggests people should take a mini-retirement at regular intervals throughout their career and explore the world in their twenties, thirties and forties rather than use up the best years of their life working for someone else, feeling exhausted the whole time, barely able to squeeze much juice out of life!
Once upon a time, the vast majority of people subscribed to something known as the 40×40 Plan, which referred to the fact people would get an education then work for forty hours a week for forty years of their life then retire on 40% of their salary.
It was at this point that people would finally begin to travel and explore the world and squeeze the most out of life, but think about that for a second. At sixty fives years old people have very different levels of health, fitness, and vitality than they did in their twenties – thus people aren’t always able to pursue the activities on their bucket list if they wait until retirement.
There’s also the sobering realization that not everyone makes it to retirement. What if you spend your whole life working, thinking that tomorrow will be better, only for tomorrow to be taken from you prematurely.
Today, many people are looking for ways to squeeze the most out of their lives, particularly with regard to travel, as young as possible, and one of the best ways to do this is to take regular mini-retirements.
The emphasis today appears to have shifted from amassing great wealth to creating a “freedom lifestyle”.
In today’s flourishing digital economy the opportunity to work remotely, from anywhere in the world, providing you have a laptop and a decent internet connection is in abundance. For many people, “living the dream” no longer features a corner office, fancy title, and fast car parked in their garage – it’s more akin to jetting off to an exotic location and working from their laptop on a beach whilst drinking from a fresh coconut.
The idea of mini-retirements was first introduced by Tim Ferriss in his New York Times bestselling book, but since then the concept has peaked the interest of bloggers, freelancers and digital nomads alike. This article digs deeper into the idea of mini-retirements and looks at some of the destination choices you might want to consider.
Here are my favorite 20 true crime podcasts and some of the lessons I learned after listening to a dozen true crime podcasts. Lessons about law, police, podcast making, serial killers, mysterious disappearing and myself. Also, my to-listen list of 25+ more true crime podcasts to listen to. (more…)
If you are going on vacation and someone you are traveling with will be celebrating his or her birthday, you will want to do everything you can to make it special. Of course, being on holiday in itself is pretty special. However, when people are away from their home comforts, it can make their birthday feel a bit strange. This is especially the case if they are going to be away from the people they usually spend their birthday with. So, with that being said, let’s take a look at some tips on how to celebrate someone’s birthday while you are on holiday. (more…)
Exploring the world is something the majority of people want to do in their lifetime. There is a hitch, though: fitting in. Travellers are apart of a community, and it can feel cliquey at times. Of course, the great thing about seeing the world is that people are friendly and accepting. Still, it’s hard to know that when you are a novice who is looking to take their first steps. (more…)