Exiting The City – Thoughts On Moving To The Home Counties
For the first time in my adult life I’m not living in a major city and I’ve completely surprised myself by embracing the less frenetic lifestyle it brings. (God I hope I’m not jinxing myself…
View PostHow We Really Afford To Travel So Much
One of the things I get asked by curious readers is how my husband and I afford to travel so much and I get why they want to know. If I wasn’t me I’d want…
View PostI Did It For The Gram: My Floating Breakfast Fail
The butter was melted, the eggs now certainly overcooked, and if I didn’t hook the tray back with my toe in the next 2 seconds the whole thing was going to experience death by drowning.…
View Post7 Ways I Doubled My Blog Traffic In 2 Months – Really!
During the 8 years I’ve been blogging the way readers find my blog has changed massively. Whereas I used to get a lot of blog traffic without much action on my part, in 2018 I’m…
View PostInstagram Isn’t Killing Blogs – It’s Making Them Better
I was enjoying my Saturday morning cup of tea and blog binge when I got to a post by one of my favourite bloggers and Instagrammers lamenting the slow demise of blogging. I died. (As…
View PostMaking A Living From Travel Blogging: 15 Things You Need To Know
I like to keep this blog as BS-free as possible and that also applies to talking about how I make a living from travel blogging. There are heaps of great guides online about how to…
View Post10 Cheap Blogging Tools I Use Everyday To Make My Blog Better
Maintaining a blog and social media presence can be overwhelming. We’re only one person and yet we’re supposed to be experts in multiple fields and online in multiple places, all at the same time. For…
View PostChecking In: Why I Got Ceramic Braces Aged 33
Oh god, what have I done? Yesterday I had conventional ceramic braces fitted and today I am freaked out by the foreignness of my mouth. I feel like I have giant protruding objects on my…
View PostNext Stop India – Delhi, Taj Mahal & Rajasthan
There’s 1 more sleep until I go to India and I don’t think I have been this hyper about a trip since the early noughties. The Taj Mahal has long been on my bucket list…
View PostChecking In Week 13: How good is going to the office?
Checking In is a sometimes weekly, sometimes sporadic, update from me on the challenges, calories and coffee-fuelled planning sessions that happen behind the scenes of this travel blog. Here’s something I never thought I’d hear…
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