Stories From 80 Countries
Everything we've written, from 13 years on the road.
Citadines Hotel – Luxury in Bangkok
Bangkok, aka 'the city of angels' is deemed as the nucleus for backpackers and tourists who visit Southeast Asia. It's hectic and chaotic, it has temples and shopping centers and lots of things to see and do. Bangkok has a reputation for being a 'must experience' city...
Online Tools to Manage an Online Business
If you told me 10 years ago that it would possible to run a business just by having access to a laptop and an internet connection - I would have believed you! Yes, I would have. Technology is changing at such a rapid speed that nothing should surprise us anymore. What...
Travel Tales with Mitchell White – One Tribe Apparel
Today for a travel tales interview I have traveler & entrepreneur Mitchell White. Along with his brother Taylor, Mitch opened up the hostel Common Grounds in the mountain town of PAI in Thailand. He’s now also working on an e-commerce company One Tribe Apparel...
Photo Essay – Bellesguard Tower, Barcelona
We recently spent four days in the stunning city of Barcelona on our route back to Ireland. One of the sights that was recommended to us by OK Apartment (where we stayed), was the Bellesguard Tower in the north of the city. This tower which was designed by Gaudi...
How NOT Visiting Angkor Wat Made us an Extra $2000 Per Month!
After visiting the killing fields in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, we were in two minds over what to do next. Originally, the only reason we planned on heading into Cambodia in the first place was to visit both the killing fields and Ankor Wat in Siem Reap. We decided that we...
Travel Plans for the Rest of 2014
Cambodia - Barcelona - Lanzarote - Home - Brazil - South America The clock has been ticking at a rapid rate since we packed our bags and left the apartment in Chiang Mai in January. We've been on the road since, and have got to see many beautiful things and do lots of...
Get a taste of life in France in 2016
The FIFA World Cup took over for most of the early part of the spring and summer this year. No matter where in the world you were, you’d hear something on the news almost every day about the World Cup, which took place in Brazil for the second time in its history in...
Travel Tales with Gianni and Ivana – Nomad is Beautiful
We first met Ivana and Gianni while we were living in Chiang Mai. We ended up travelling with them into Loas and spending about 3 weeks together having a few adventures along the way. They travel extremely light - with only 1 small backpack each (weighing 8kg each)....
Halong Bay
We are currently on our 28 day trip through Vietnam, and I just thought i'd give a quick update about our (very short) trip to Halong Bay, before the information gets lost a midst all that's going on at the minute! http://youtu.be/XDGOt5lt_ag We couldn't not visit...
The Iguazu Falls
The Iguazu Falls, also known as the Iguassu Falls or the Iguaçu Falls, is an amazing spectacle of 275 individual waterfalls that is one of the top tourist attractions in both Brazil and Argentina. Visitors can see and experience the power of the falls from Foz do...
Chilling in Vang Vieng
'Happy' shakes, opium pizzas and "friends!" As well as the above, tubing down the Nam Song river while drinking copious amounts of alcohol is what Vang Vieng is widely known for. We are not particularly into any of these things and so we were not too sure if Vang...
Operation: Vietnam Road Trip
Ever since I watched the Top Gear "Vietnam" special back in December 2008 - I've wanted to buy a motorbike and do a Vietnam Road Trip. Specifically -drive from Hanoi in the North to Saigon in the South. Visiting Vietnam has also been on my list of must travel to...
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