Tag: Advice
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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…
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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…
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6 Things That Helped Me Manage My Eating Disorder Whilst Backpacking
Trigger Warning – Eating Disorders. This post in no way has been sponsored or endorsed by any of the apps or websites mentioned below. They’re all just useful tools that helped me a lot. I think as we veer between possible lockdown and the overwhelming realisation that this ‘new’ normal, is actually going to be…
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What Instagram doesn’t show you about travelling solo
Hey gang, What’s happening? I hope you’ve all been trying to spend time during lockdown in the most positive way possible. Lockdown for me has given me time to reminisce about the places I’ve travelled to and the experiences I’ve had. A lot of travel businesses, airlines, hotels and hostels are slowly thinking of opening…
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Mental Health May – Why I’ve Not Been Writing
As you may or may not know, it’s Mental Health May (oh clever, see what I did there). It’s a month dedicated to bringing awareness to mental illness and so I thought I’d write about how I’ve actually been feeling. I could give a “10 top tips to make you feel GREAT” but I don’t…
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COVID – How does it impact your mental health?
I think what I’m finding the hardest about being home, without any plan or notion as to what the hell I’m doing is the constant mental chatter that I can’t shut up. I find myself disassociating a lot of the time, and that combined with a continuous playback of not always such nice thoughts makes…
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From London with Love <3 What’s Happened Since COVID19
This is the story that begins from before the word COVID-19 existed to writing in what seems to be a particularly sick episode of Black Mirror that someone seems to has forgotten to switch off. You may question why I’ve titled this post “From London with Love”. That is a) because for now, my travels,…
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