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Motivational Monday: Don’t Miss Your Opportunity

It’s Monday again and the weekly grind may be kicking in round about now but it doesn’t have to, not if you really want your life to be something different, something exciting, something fun. It’s scary but it’s possible. How many of us tur...

MOTIVATIONAL MONDAY: It’s All About The People

Sorry for being a couple of days late with this – I was stuck on Koh Chang (a beautiful Thai island) for a couple of days longer than expected, I had a great time with some cool people and it sparked an idea about the people in our lives. I...

TUESDAY’S TRAVEL RANT: The same old sales pitch

You can try to get off the beaten track all you want but it’s inevitable that eventually you’ll end up in yet another bloody tourist market, selling the same wooden frogs, the same fake football shirts and of course the same ubiquitous tail...

Travel Rant Number 4: Immigration Queues

Ok, I’ve started to rant a bit over the last month, so i thought I’d give it an actual section on my blog! That way I don’t seem like a grumpy, perpetually p*ssed off backpacker (right?!). It’s called ‘Tuesday...

MOTIVATIONAL MONDAY: You’re Never As Young As You Are Tonight

“Do it while you’re young”, “Youth is wasted on the young”, “You’re only young once” – same old clichés, same old story. It’s true that youth is an awesome thing but it’s all relative. As a kid I thought I’d be an old man by the tim...

Booking Domestic Flights in Burma (Myanmar)

Just a quick note about booking flights in Burma because it’s quite a strange system – read on… The big 4 (Mandalay, Yangon, Bagan and Lake Inle) and generally a full day’s overland travel apart from each other regardless...

How to Get From Yangon to Mandalay

Yangon to Mandalay; Flights, Bus and Train Info! Myanmar was the 45th country I visited on my journey to every country in the world, and it is truly an awesome country to travel around. Unfortunately, thanks to the fear-mongering by Western...

Accommodation in Bagan, Myanmar (Burma)

Accommodation in Bagan So the Bagan temples in Burma outreached any expectations I had – they truly are a wonder of the world, absolutely beautiful. My stay in Bagan, like every other experience in Burma, was awesome too but this had one e...

How Best Visit The Temples in Bagan & Ride In A Bagan Hot Air Ballon

How Best Visit The Temples in Bagan & Ride In A Bagan Hot Air Ballon Myanmar (formally known as Burma) used to be one of the most difficult countries in Asia to access. A military dictatorship meant it was quite a scary country to trave...

Live your life, take it all and don’t feel guilty for it

Life is meant to be lived, it’s meant to be enjoyed and appreciated. It’s not supposed to be taken for granted, and it should never be wasted. It’s a gift, one that we should cherish every day. The best thing about life is that we control o...

Travel Rant Number 4: Transport Touts

Wow, the people in this new country are so friendly. Everyone is trying to help us get a ticket, they’re literally fighting over who should help us – amazing. Hmmmm – the only thing amazing about this is how many people are willing to rip y...

How to get a Burmese Visa in Bangkok

This is just a quick post about visiting Burma/Myanmar while you’re in South East Asia – because the embassy proved quite elusive to me over the last few days, so I’m gonna share what I’ve learned! There are only two countries in the region...