Who Is RunawayBrit?
I’m a 30-something English teacher from the United Kingdom. My longing to travel was born after a short trip through Eastern Europe in 2000 when I went from Germany to Romania by train and experienced the first flush of wanderlust. After that I was determined to escape from Britain at every opportunity.
I first became a Runaway Brit at 23 when I went to work in Tokyo for a year as a TEFL teacher for a small language school. After a 4 year teaching stint back home in Northampton, UK, I left again for Vietnam. This time I worked in an International school in Saigon for 3 years and travelled throughout South East Asia during the holidays.
Since then I have taken my dream trip through South America , and now I live and work in Sweden.
My travel companion is mainly my partner Nicklas, a great Swedish guy that I met when I was travelling in Cambodia in 2008. Read our story ‘Serendipity in Sihanoukville’ over at the excellent Nomadic Chick website. When he is busy working I travel with friends.
Runawaybrit offers personal stories of life on the road, as well as heaps pf advice about how I maintain my travel lifestyle. And if I can do it, you can too!
Read my most popular posts:
- Free to Travel: How I Broke Free From Debt
- Avoiding Saigon’s Taxi Scams
- How to Save For Your Dream Trip
- How Safe is La Paz, Bolivia?
- 40 Things I Want To Do Before I’m 40
Follow me on my adventures!
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You can also follow me on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/runawaybrit and Twitter http://twitter.com/RunawayBrit
Hey, really great blog posts… I’ve enjoyed reading through your blog because of the great style and energy. I actually work for the CheapOair travel blog. If you’re interested, we would love to have you on as a guest blogger. Please send me an e-mail: gchristodoulou(at)cheapoair(dot)com, and I’ll give you more information. Looking forward to hearing from you.
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I stayed in the UK from December-March 2011. I haven’t fulfilled my self-imposed task of backpacking in the whole UK. Hope you could visit the Philippines on your next Southeast Asian trip
More power to you 
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Thanks for the comment. The Philippines is very high up on my list of places to go now, I hope I get to do it soon. Where did you visit in the UK?
Love your blog! Looks like you’re having an amazing adventure(s) and life!
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I like the way you presented “The Clocksmith of Valparaiso”. It’s one of my favorite poems.
Thank you very much. It’s a great poem!
How do you do!
I’m another travelling Brit, today in Mexico City, next week New Zealand. I’m glad I’ve found you, I love your blog.
Thanks for finding me and for the comment! How’s Mexico City? Since travelling South America I have discovered that I have the urge to visit Central America now! Need to start saving again
Hi,
Contact me if your still looking for work. you can find phone no. on website.
Look forward.
Clinton.
Great to meet a fellow Brit teacher/TEFL guru who’s in their 30′s and also ‘run away!’ I taught in Sri Lanka, on board a container ship (!), travelled through Cambodia and seem to find myself in Greece now.
Check out my blog and adventures and hope to chat about a possible guest post from you some day.
:0)
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Hey, sorry about the late reply to this!
I would love to be in touch regarding a blog post exchange!!
Cool blog! You just got yourself a new follower
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Thank you!
Hey Elaine,
awesome blog, like browsing through your posts while sitting on a sofa dreaming of being on the road again:)
Keep on travelling and posting. As long as I am stationary I will read… will be on the road to Alaska from May on, so then there will be less time for reading again…
cheers Nat
Thank you so much for your comment. How long are you going to Alaska for? I would love to visit Alaska, it is high up on my Bucket List!
I will be up in Alaska for the whole summer season. We are currently remodelling an old school bus for our adventure holiday and we will run five trips up there. Well, if you are interested check out my website and maybe you are joining us this summer!?