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Asia Featured Teaching Travelling

Exciting News: I’m Moving to India!

by Runaway Britupdated on 13 Comments on Exciting News: I’m Moving to India!

Judging by the response that I have received from various people to this news, you probably fall into one of the following categories: “India?! Are you crazy?” or “Wow! What an amazing experience!”

If I’m totally honest with …

Europe Travelling

Burned Out in Dubrovnik

by Runaway Britupdated on 8 Comments on Burned Out in Dubrovnik

Holding a crumpled map in one hand, and a bottle of luke-warm water from which I was stopping to take a mouthful every few minutes in the other, we staggered up the steep road—my backpack now seeming to weigh twice …

Travelling

How to Save For Your Dream Trip

by Runaway Britupdated on 8 Comments on How to Save For Your Dream Trip

The process of saving for your dream trip can be a daunting procedure to begin. You know where you want to go, and how long you want to be away for; but once you start totalling up the price of …

Asia Beaches Blogging Childhood Memories Food and Drink Partying Travelling

Warm or Cold Christmas?

by Runaway Britupdated on 8 Comments on Warm or Cold Christmas?

Whether Christmas is best celebrated in a warm climate or cold climate is a topic often discussed by travellers. The opinions of most tend to depend heavily upon where that traveller was raised. It is understandable that Christmas to an …

Travelling

Things that drive me crazy about hostels

by Runaway Britupdated on 8 Comments on Things that drive me crazy about hostels

When I first started travelling I was impressed every time I walked into a new hostel. (Most) hostels have a nice friendly ambience: you are welcomed at the reception by well-travelled and informative hosts, the kitchen is full of laughing …

Asia Beaches Food and Drink Japan Nature Partying Teaching Travelling Working Overseas

Why I Want to go Back to Japan

by Runaway Britupdated on 6 Comments on Why I Want to go Back to Japan

I lived in Tokyo for a year between August 2002 and August 2003 and I can’t believe that it was ten years ago. I had barely used email before I left for Japan, and I had never heard of blogging—but …

South America Travelling

How Important Is It to Use The Local Language When Travelling?

by Runaway Britupdated on 17 Comments on How Important Is It to Use The Local Language When Travelling?

Whether or not you should try to learn a few phrases of the local language is a question often discussed among travellers. Some take phrasebooks with them and steadfastly learn a new phrase every day, while others lazily believe that …

Nature Travelling

Earth Day – April 22nd 2012

by Runaway Britupdated on 2 Comments on Earth Day – April 22nd 2012

The #FriFotos theme this week is Earth Day to coincide with the event of the same name; a day coordinated by the Earth Day Network in order to raise awareness and appreciation of our beautiful planet.

I have been lucky …

Childhood Memories Friends and Family Relationships Travelling United Kingdom

Travel or Family, Do You Always Have to Choose?

by Runaway Britupdated on 11 Comments on Travel or Family, Do You Always Have to Choose?

Today is my birthday.

It is not a significant birthday, the last one of those was three years ago, and the next one is still way off in the future—although we all know that the next significant birthday is …

South America Travelling

Be Prepared for Bogota—what the travel guides don’t tell you!

by Runaway Britupdated on 6 Comments on Be Prepared for Bogota—what the travel guides don’t tell you!

Bogota is the sixth capital city that we have visited on our trip around South America, and so far it has proven to be the most difficult to enter, get around in, and to leave. One of the reasons for …

Travelling United Kingdom

Runaway Brits Abroad

by Runaway Britupdated on 3 Comments on Runaway Brits Abroad

Will Peach is one of the site editors over at Gap Daemon, the gap year community website for backpackers and gap year travellers. You can also find out more about his struggles and adventures in Spain over at myspanishadventure.com.…

Travelling

Preparing to become a Nomad

by Runaway Britupdated on 2 Comments on Preparing to become a Nomad

One of the most common questions that you get asked as a traveller is ‘where are you from?’ a question that should be very easy to answer but one which I dread more each time I go away. The most …

Asia School Teaching Travelling Vietnam Working Overseas

Goodbye Classroom, Hello World!

by Runaway Britupdated on 5 Comments on Goodbye Classroom, Hello World!

Four years ago I was in an auditorium in Vietnam alongside my teaching colleagues and we were listening to a lecture that only served to strengthen my already iron-clad resolve to travel. I don’t think that this was the point …

Asia Partying Travelling Vietnam

A Close Call in Nha Trang, Vietnam

by Runaway Britupdated on 4 Comments on A Close Call in Nha Trang, Vietnam

“Careful. Bad people around” whispered the aged street-vendor who had just sold me a banana for an extortionate price, making me wonder if she might be one of the ‘bad people’ that she was referring to. It was 3am and …

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