Before leaving the UK to start our adventure I knew I needed to lose weight. I was around the 11st mark and I feel much more comfortable around 10st. Don’t get me wrong I’d “tried” to lose weight but I wasn’t successful. I’m one of these people who starts a diet and instantly starts craving […]
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We heard about Babinda Boulders from our Helpx hosts as well as a few places online when looking up things to do in Cairns. Since we had rented a car for a few days we put them on the itinerary. On our second day with the car we drove south from Cairns to the Babinda Boulders and […]
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Since arriving in Australia we’ve toyed with the idea of renting a car. In every location we talked about it but never took the plunge. The cost and risk associated with renting a car put me off – that was until we arrived in Cairns. While researching Cairns we discovered there was a lot to […]
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This post is a bit more personal than previous posts as I’m going to share my experience of traveling with IBS and some tips for how I manage my symptoms while traveling. For someone with IBS traveling long term can be daunting. Hopefully sufferers can relate to this blog and buddies of sufferers can learn […]
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This post follows on from a previous post about Helpx and how it’s already saved us over $5,250 during our time in Australia. Since writing that post we have done 29 more days of Helpx bringing the total amount saved to $6,700. We don’t have that amount of money in our travel budget at the […]
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Looking for things to do in Kuala Lumpur? Here’s our list of the top 5 things to do while you’re there. 1. Visit the Petronas Twin Towers Bet you didn’t see that coming! Seriously though the towers are pretty amazing, especially at night when they’re lit up. There’s no need to pay to go up […]
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Our first challenge when we decided to quit our jobs and travel long term was how to raise the money for such a long vacation! After doing some research online I worked out we’d need about £9,000 each and that would need to be supplemented by work in Australia. Needless to say I didn’t have £9,000 […]
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We (embarrassingly) got caught out by the Bangkok tuk tuk scam twice when we first arrived in Bangkok. It seems that almost all first time travellers get caught out on this one though so perhaps we shouldn’t feel too bad.
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Our 4 nights in Bangkok were the very beginning of our travels. We’d roughly planned our way through Thailand and the obvious place to start was in the capital, I’m not sure we were quite prepared for the culture shock of Bangkok though! Accommodation There is a huge range of accommodation available in Bangkok, ranging […]
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During our time in Asia we came across various scams, some we fell for and some we didn’t. We didn’t get caught out by this scam but we easily could have. This is the first post of a short series of posts on scams you might encounter while travelling in Asia. We hope reading about our […]
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