So travel isn’t always sunshine and rainbows. Unless you are abnormally lucky, you will come across some frustrating, annoying and sometimes downright scary situations during your travels. Sometimes I feel like I have more bad luck when I am travelling than most, generally in regards to travel delays and stuff being stolen. I have been […] Read more…
Travel Fails
The One Where I Slept in a Park in the Czech Republic and All My Bags Were Stolen
Travel wouldn’t be travel without things going horribly wrong once in a while. I have definitely had my share of bad luck over the last ten years of travelling and as I don’t want all of you out there to think that everything runs smoothly for me all the time (far from it!), I want […] Read more…
Slave Laboring in the Canadian Desert – A Help X Nightmare
After how well our first experience with Help X went, we weren’t as nervous about starting our second placement which was two weeks working on a vineyard/farm in Osoyoos. But if we knew what a Help X nightmare we were about to endure, we would have hightailed it back to Vancouver straight away. Osoyoos is […] Read more…
Dealing With Altitude Sickness on the World Famous Inca Trail in Peru
Our epic journey to Machu Picchu began with us getting picked up at 5.30am from our hostel in Cusco by Peru Treks, and driven to Km 82 via a breakfast stop near Ollantaytambo. This is the start of the Inca Trail and where you sort out your bags, your paperwork is checked and your passport […] Read more…
A Really Bad Luck Week in Panama
So I left off last time with a brief mention of our epic journey from Managua to Panama City. We had decided that, as we are on a tight budget, we would take a bus across three countries in two days as it was a quarter of the price of a flight; turns out it […] Read more…
Exploring Central Guatemala – and Having my Passport Stolen
Our first stop after the humid and jungle-covered North was in charming Colonial Antigua; the touristy gem in Guatemala’s crown. Antigua really is a beautiful town despite the tourists. It reminds me very much of San Cristobal de las Casas in Mexico which I hold dear to my heart. Cobbled streets, leafy squares, colorful churches, […] Read more…