I was chatting to a friend on Skpye the other day who told me that she doesn't feel able to visit a country where she doesn't speak the language. She wondered how I did it and that got me thinking about how I get by. I've come up with four reasons ( Read more... )

“Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote,
and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.”
Michael PalinIt's Monday 29th September. I got back from Croatia and BiH yesterday. I'm sat on a train to Manchester in order to see Michael Palin's show 'Travel to Work' today. Now seems like a good time to reflect why ( Read more... )

Lately I've been traveling with items that are falling apart, that I fear will fall apart soon or that are so old they're just downright unpleasant to use. I realised that some things, such as my travel pillow, haven't been replaced since I first started traveling nearly 10 years ago! I also have a bad habit of lugging many and/or massive books ( Read more... )