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What We’ve Been Up To For the Past Two Years

What We’ve Been Up To For the Past Two Years

Hello, friends. It’s been a while! In fact, it’s been longer than just a while. It’s been almost 2 years since we were regularly posting here on the blog. 2 YEARS! We’ve been the worst ‘travel bloggers’ as of late as we’ve been firmly out of travel mode and in full-on...

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Elephant Riding Pai: Avoid Thom’s Pai Elephant Camp

Elephant Riding Pai: Avoid Thom’s Pai Elephant Camp

  The elephant looked jaded, old, and uncared for. He walked towards us and, like most elephants; he looked to be a gentle giant as he glided ever so gracefully along the concrete road. A small Thai man walked right beside him with a long wooden stick that was...

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Why we stopped blogging (and haven’t regretted it).

Why we stopped blogging (and haven’t regretted it).

Hey readers, it’s been a while! We’ve been super quiet on the blog lately – so much so that many of you have emailed and messaged us asking are we alright and why we’ve not been posting updates (thanks for your concern btw!) so we figured it was time to do a quick...

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Ho Chi Minh: The Perfect Digital Hotspot for Techy Travellers

Ho Chi Minh: The Perfect Digital Hotspot for Techy Travellers

Formerly known as Saigon, Ho Chi Minh is a large and vibrant metropolis where the remnants of its colonial past sit side-by-side with the trappings of modern-day life. It's a popular stopping off point for travellers of all kinds, especially people like us who work...

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Travelling with Invisalign: Is it possible?

Travelling with Invisalign: Is it possible?

I have wanted to get braces for years but, just like so many other people that I’ve spoken to, I had a bad experience with a dentist when I was younger and it did nothing short of scarring me for life. When I was about 12 my dentist (the same one that scarred me) said...

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Full-time Travel: A Quick Look Back at Year 3

Full-time Travel: A Quick Look Back at Year 3

Today, July 13th 2016, is a pretty big milestone for us. It was this date three years ago, in 2013, that we left Ireland on a one way ticket to Thailand with a hope of staying there for a couple of months and figuring stuff out as time passed. To say that the time has...

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7 Things You’ll Miss When You Leave Southeast Asia

7 Things You’ll Miss When You Leave Southeast Asia

Remember the experience of landing in Southeast Asia for the first time? Stepping off the plane was like lifting a veil from your eyes that you never knew you were even wearing. Well, that's how it felt for us anyway the first time we landed in Bangkok. The colours...

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A Photo Essay & Things to do in Meteora

A Photo Essay & Things to do in Meteora

Ever since Carlo showed me a picture of Meteora that our friend Gianni had taken, I was super excited to get there. A quick Google search made me even more excited about the prospect of heading north of Athens and checking this place out. The history behind this...

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