Tag: Featured
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Be Your Own Valentine This Valentine’s Day

Oh Valentine’s Day, that ol’ day. The day of flowers, grand declarations of love, chocolates and feeling appreciated. Or if you’re me a few years ago, a day of tense conversations and a lack of chocolate. That’s right readers, I’ve never really had the best Valentine’s day, even when I was in a relationship, which…
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2026 Ultimate Guide to Backpacking Travel Essentials

Welcome travellers, to my ultimate guide of backpacking travel essentials in 2026. 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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The Most Sustainable Travel Destinations To Visit

If you’re looking to backpack or travel the world, you must have a knowledge of how to do so, as responsibly to our environment as possible. Check out some of the most environmentally conscious countries to visit across the world and add them to your post-covid 2021 bucketlist!
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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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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…

