You’re a virgin?! You mean you have never experienced one before?! A bit scared about it? Well…let me help you; I’ve done it loads of times before! With my advice, I guarantee you will have a pleasurable experience EVERY time! Is this sexual nirvana, I’m referring to? Nope…I’m talking about your first stay in a hostel. These FIVE top tips will help you through your first hostel stay.…
I have been getting myself a bit of a reputation, these past few years, among my friends, family and work colleagues. The gadabout, the one flush with cash and the line everyone says (or variants of)…”you’re always going on holiday!” Granted, I do take a fair few trips here and there, particularly in the last three years. Last year alone, I visited 7 countries and this year I…
When you travel, and especially when you travel solo, you are bound to meet a whole host of characters in hostels. I have touched on this in previous posts ‘The Freak Parade – Oddballs on the Road‘ and ‘Embrace Your Fellow Traveller…‘. What HostelBookers have done brilliantly is sum up the 15 types of weird and wonderful backpackers you are likely to meet in hostels. I would say I am…
Travelling as an activity is a hugely satisfying leisure pursuit that can result in you seeing, tasting and experiencing much of what the World has to offer. What has surprised me the most about travel, is how much I have got out of travelling. There is a danger this is going to sound like a CV or job application, but the things I have been lucky enough to…
Free! My favourite price! The old saying goes, “there’s no such thing as a free lunch”, but I disagree when it comes to one ‘free’ aspect of travel and it is one of my top tips for the solo traveller. Whenever I am in a place that has one on offer, I always take the free tour. I’ve free toured in a number of cities including Lisbon, Budapest, Riga, Vilnius and most…