Category: Blog

• 2025 Ultimate Guide to Backpacking Travel Essentials

  

  Welcome travellers, to my ultimate guide to backpacking travel essentials in 2025. I wrote this at 00.02am in a bunk bed in Peru, 7 hours before I had to get up to hike to Laguna 69. What was the reason being so wide awake and deciding to write this ultimate guide? Had I drunk two…

  EmilyN

  9th Feb 2021

  Anxiety, Blog, Itinerary, Travel

  Advice, Backpack, backpacking, checklist, essentials, Featured, gap year, holiday, organise, packing, round the world, suitcase, Travel, travel blogger, Travel destinations, travel tips, travel writer, traveltips

• The BEST Backpacks To Travel The World With

  

  How do you know which backpack is the best for you? I look at the best backpacks for 2021 for short term, mid term and long term travel!

  EmilyN

  5th Jan 2021

  Asia, Australasia, Blog, Europe, Itinerary, North America, South America, Travel

  Backpack, backpackgear, backpacking, backpacks, bags, Featured, luggage, Travel, travel essentials

• HAPPY NEW YEAR!

  

  2020 New Year Realisations

  EmilyN

  31st Dec 2020

  Anxiety, Blog, Depression, Lifestyle, Mental Health, Wellness

  Anxiety, Depression, Featured, friends, Friendships, happy new year, Lifestyle, London, Mental Health, new year, New Year’s Eve, realisation, relationships, support, Wellness

• My Mental Health Journey in Tier 4 Restrictions

  

  As we start the countdown to New Year’s Eve 2020 (oh the joy), I’ve realised how anxious I’ve become since we heard the announcement that London was being thrown into Tier 4 restrictions. It’s becoming steadfastly more and more mentally exhausting to remain upbeat, when you’re being told the virus is spreading like wildfire and…

  EmilyN

  22nd Dec 2020

  Anxiety, Blog, Depression, Lifestyle, Mental Health, Wellness

  Advice, Anxiety, backpacking, christmas, covid, Depression, help, Mental Health, Mental Health advice, Mental Health Awareness, multiple sclerosis, solo travel, tier 4, Travel, writing

• 10 Things I Miss That We ALL Did Travelling

  

  What do you miss the most about travelling? The excitement arriving at the airport in the early hours? The aeroplane food? Trying to rush off the plane before they open the doors?

  EmilyN

  30th Nov 2020

  Blog, Lifestyle, Travel

  aeroplane, airport, airports, backpacking, behaviour, comedy, covid19, excited, Featured, flight, flying, funny, holiday, humans, humour, passenger, passport, plane, psychology, travelling, vacation

• Life, Dating, Therapy & Travel Update In Lockdown 2020

  

  What’s it like to return from backpacking the world to a pandemic? How does life resume? How is dating possible?

  EmilyN

  26th Nov 2020

  Anxiety, Blog, Lifestyle, Mental Health, Romance, Travel, Wellness

  Anxiety, comedy, dating, dating during covid, Depression, friends, funny, life, love, Mental Health, relationships, Romance, self empowerment, self love, therapy, thoughts, Travel, travel solo, Wellness, women

• 5 Things Which May Make Lockdown Less Intense

  

  HELLO LOCKDOWN MY OLD FRIEND. What an entire sh*tshow 2020 has been. There’s no beating around the bush here – it’s been dire. As if a world ravaged by a virus hasn’t been enough of a challenge, we’re all on tenterhooks waiting for election results, James Bond has died and terror attacks are being thrown…

  EmilyN

  6th Nov 2020

  Anxiety, Blog, Depression, Lifestyle, Mental Health, Wellness

  acceptance, Bulimia, covid, covid19, eating disorder, friends, lockdown, lockdown2020, Mental Health, Mental Health Awareness, self care, self empowerment, self help, self love, sleep, social, Wellness

• WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY – From Travelling The World To Therapy In Lockdown

  

  I didn’t think I’d be celebrating World Mental Health Day in lockdown. Here’s how I went from travelling the world to starting therapy in the UK during a pandemic

  EmilyN

  12th Oct 2020

  Anxiety, Blog, Depression, Lifestyle, Mental Health, Wellness

  Anxiety, backpacking, health, how to find a therapist, Mental Health, Mental Health Awareness, psychology, self care, self love, solo travel, strength, therapist, therapy, Travel, Wellness, wmhd, wmhd2020, world mental health day

• My TOP 8 Netflix Shows For An Endorphin Hit

  

  Hey you! How are you doing? It’s been a rough ride hasn’t it? I for one, can’t believe we’re in October and this sh*tshow is still happening. I mean, as much as I’ve got used to this world pandemic, I also have not got used to it at all and I am beyond fed up.…

  EmilyN

  2nd Oct 2020

  Anxiety, Blog, Depression, Lifestyle, Mental Health, Travel, Wellness

  adventure, Anxiety, care, Depression, documentaries, documentary, explore, films, hostel, independent, love, movies, netflix, netflixandalone, netflixandchill, selfcare, series, solo, solotravel, strength, television, Travel, traveltheworld, tvseries, Wellness, World

• Life, Romance and Job Reality: Three Reasons Returning Home Has Been The Hardest Thing I’ve Had To Do

  

  Returning home from backpacking the world has been the hardest thing I’ve had to do, here’s why.

  EmilyN

  22nd Sep 2020

  Anxiety, Blog, Depression, Mental Health, Romance, Travel, Wellness

  backpacking, covid, date, dating, health, illness, job, kindness, life, love, menatlhealth, psychology, reality, selfempowerment, selflove, Travel, Wellness, Work, worldtravel, writer, writing