So if you’re anything like me, you’ve well and truly been bitten by the travel bug. You’ve already got the next 10 places you want to visit mentally planned out and will find any excuse to travel. However, what happens when you can’t travel? Maybe due to work commitments or for financial reasons or maybe …
Armchair Tourists: Books That Take You To Extraordinary Places
Stephen King once wrote that books are a ‘uniquely portable magic’ and I wholeheartedly agree with him. I would love to be traveling all the time, however, I have to work and study and generally live an adult life so that’s not really a possibility. What I can do, and love to do, is read. …
5 Ukraine Travel Tips to Know Before You Visit
I’ve just returned from L’viv, Ukraine and whilst I’ve had a decent vacation, I have found some struggles with the trip. If you want to have a slightly better trip than me there are a few Ukraine travel tips you should take into account to prepare and learn from my mistakes. So here is a …
All the Disney Movies To Watch Before Going To Disneyland Paris
One of the things I see asked over and over again is which Disney movies to watch before going to Disneyland Paris. You’ve booked your trip to Disneyland Paris (or at least know that you want to go) and are now in that waiting period so need to do something to keep the excitement and …
Winter Iceland Packing List for Men
Or what to make your boyfriend take to Iceland when he says he’ll be fine. I recently went to Iceland with my boyfriend and wanted to prepare a packing list early so we could hit the sales. However, when I asked him what he would need to get before we went he said ‘nothing, I’ll …
Romantic Advice: London Edition
Recently one of the staff at my work asked me for romantic advice – because I am so clearly great with all the ladies! He wanted to take a girl out for Valentine’s Day and asked me ‘What do girls like to do?’. I responded to this by telling him that wasn’t the question to …
New Year, New View
It’s almost the end of January. For most people that means they’ve already given up on their New Year’s Resolutions – eat better, go to the gym, travel more… Last week my fellow fairy wrote about why it’s good to make travel plans. This week I’m writing about how to make travel resolutions that are …
7 Reasons Why You Should Set Travel Goals Even When You Can’t Travel
As the new year has just been, I know a lot of people would have set a new years resolution. Of those resolutions, many may include travel in some way or another. Whether that be to travel more or to visit a particular place. If you’re anything like me, you will have a million ideas …
Travel Items that the Traveler in your Life will love this Christmas
We all have that one friend or family member that’s always off around the world and you only see during the festive period (mainly because it’s too expensive to travel close to Christmas!) But what travel items do you get for that person who has seen it all? Maybe they have sold all their worldly …
Traveling via Christmas Movies
My plan for this week was to write a post on the best places to go at Christmas in London but it’s been rainy and horrible all week (I mean, it is England) so I haven’t much felt like going around taking pictures of Christmas lights. That got me thinking that sometimes the best places …