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Time To Talk, My Story: How Speaking Openly Over A Digestive Helped Me With Depression
I’ll be taking part in Time to Talk Day on 6 February 2020 by sharing my story, to help change attitudes towards mental health. Find out how you can get involved too: https://www.time-to-change.org.uk/timetotalkday #TimeToTalk So here’s a fun fact you may or may not know. Two incredible organisations have partnered up to get the nation…
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5 CRAZY CULTURE SHOCKS – SE ASIA VS UK
I’ve been travelling South East Asia now since my stop in Bangkok, 31st July, 2019. I did spend a little time in Malaysia and Southern Thailand at the start of July before I flew home to celebrate my birthday, but upon arrival in Bangkok I’ve really covered the majority of what SE Asia has to…
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WHY LAOS WAS NOT AS LAOS-Y AS THAILAND
Howdy howdy HEY reader! I’m back. I mean I was never really away, I’ve just been sooooo lazy busy that I’ve got many topics to write, send off and haven’t actually had the time to get around to it. UPDATE TIME MUM – Poor Mum. I managed to catch her on FaceTime when I was…
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Meeting a Cambodian Genocide Survivor: My Most Special Travel Experience
This is Bou Meng. He is 3rd from the right of the B&W photo. He is one of only 7 known survivors of the Khmer Rouge imprisonment in the S-21 Tuol Sleng camp where 20,000 Cambodians were tortured and killed in 1975. What was the Khmer Rouge? I didn’t know anything about it, until a…
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ANITA
ANITA’S #travelsundaystory Diagnosed with Hypothyroidism Back in January, I left a group of friends in Colombia rushing to Peru to make my Machu Pichhu trip in time. I’d taken planes, buses, tried to fit in two excursions and got onto another bus to Cusco – because I suck at timings and it’s always more fun…
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FREIMAN
FREIMAN’S #travelsundaystory Escaping the Venezuelan Crisis Hello! It’s been a month since my last #travelsundaystory and this weekend I’ll be sharing a tale close to my heart – my encounter with Freiman and his family in Colombia. At first I was writing a story every Sunday but I was starting to get stressed about posting…
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5 THINGS TO KEEP YOUR MENTAL HEALTH SANE TRAVELLING SOLO
Sup my people! 2 important números for you to know. Número 1 – I borrowed a room mate’s mosquito spray yesterday which is apparently very good. It is certain, as of this morning, that it is apparently very bad and I am currently so mosquito bitten I look like I have measles. I’m assuming I…
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London to Thailand -Depression in Paradise
This is an incredibly hard post to write, seeing as I feel like I’m in the midst of a storm right now. I’m in Koh Tao and the weather is unpredictable, hot and warm one minute, yet thundering showers shaking the island the next. I took the picture above as I found it crudely relevant…
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A VERY SPECIAL GHANA REUNION
LISA&SAM’S #travelsundaystory Our First Ghanian Wedding Reunion! WE HAVE OUR FIRST WEDDING This is SUCH a special Sunday story to tell. 6 years ago, in early 2013, I decided to spin a globe. I’d split up with my first boyfriend, was feeling low and wanted to go away but it was my first trip by…
