Beyond a certain age (right about your late teens) the thought of travelling with your parents fills the average person with a sense of dread. The chance to holiday with friends on drunken adventures in Ibiza, backpacking around South East Asia or simply taking trips with a beloved understandably holds a far greater appeal than a trip with the old folks. Even though, like you, I have experienced much…
I want to get one thing straight from the start. I had avoided Japan, when the opportunity arose in the past, simply because I had perceived it to be too expensive a country to visit. Stories of sky-high accommodation costs and the need for bucket loads of cash for transport, food and activities had put me off heading to the Land of the Rising Sun. Japan’s reputation as…
Looking across to Gaia (the focus of the port wine industry in Porto) it’s truly odd to be standing in the heat of a Portuguese city seeing enormous rooftop hoardings with a number of quintessentially English surnames such as Taylors, Cockburn and Graham peppered across the length of the river bank. Though, I’m not a big fan of encountering my fellow countryman [sic] abroad, on this occasion in…
I have been travel writing for about four years. I follow several people who write about and promote travel on social media yet I have not once met someone, face to face, who does the same as me. So, when the opportunity came up to attend, holiday price comparison site, icelolly.com‘s Blog at the Beach event in Leeds, I snapped up the chance to take Pulped Travel out…
After two years of blogging about travel, I have realised I am writing in an overcrowded part of the Internet. Blogs about travel, independent travel, budget travel and backpacking are numerous. Many of those writing have established their space on the web longer than Pulped Travel and have reached further around the globe than I can possibly hope to do at this current moment in time. So, why…