Motivational Monday: Your time is finite, but it belongs to you

The Top 5 Places to Visit in Cairo

The Top 5 Places to Visit in Cairo I spend a lot of time in Cairo these days. It’s my hop-off spot for the tours that I run to Socotra, Yemen so I know the city pretty well these days. If you want to know how to spend 1, 2 or 3 days in...

Tuesday’s Travel Rant: Tuk Tuk Drivers

Getting from A to B shouldn’t be so difficult, nor should it cost double the real fare. Furthermore, if I want a tuk-tuk (which is unlikely), I’ll search for one. There are few things more infuriating in the world than getting harassed by d...

Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you

Motivational Monday: “But I’ll be jeopardising my future if I do that”

You’ve always wanted to see the world. You constantly see pictures of the most amazing sights, and you dream of being the one who took them. Your mind floats to the Serengeti, Peru, the Northern Lights. You want your friends to be jealous o...

Tuesday Travel Rant: Air Conditioning in South East Asia

Ok Mr Businessman, you have spent $500 on a brand-spanking new air-con unit, well done. And yes, it is bloody hot outside like someone just had a new boiler installed and using the air-con unit is completely acceptable. However, it’s not ne...

Follow your inner moonlight, dont hide the madness

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...