After thieves stole his shoes and left him travelling parts of Latin America in his bare feet, Lincoln Yates set up Catch 22 Travel Security Products to stop this happening to other backpackers. Here he shares his advice for theft free travels.
Today Didim is a seaside town popular with Ankara Turks and Northern English Brits but two and a half thousand years it was the site of an ambitious building project that so very nearly edged the Temple of Artemis off its spot on the seven ancient Wonders of the World list.
Try our made up game. Fnd someone on Twitter that mentions their location and over the next few days compare their temperatures with yours.
We know a lot of travel bloggers like to take photographs of their food but we are always a little embarrassed to whip out our cameras and do so ourselves. To get around this we have hired, at great expense, a photographer and sent him out around Chiang Mai, to restaurants of our choice, to photograph his favoured dish.
Travel had pretty much been the goal for 18 year old Will Young for many years. He’d travelled a wealth of other countries in the past, including Iceland, China, Egypt and Laos, and was working in a ventilation factory in the UK to pay for his next adventure.
Last winter I dropped into O’Tooles Bar in County Down, Northern Ireland for a beer. Had I done so on this same evening twenty years previously there is a chance I would have been shot dead.
Air Cabin Crew Tweets What does the cabin crew think of us, their jobs, airline, and life in general? One way to find out is to look at their tweets:…
London is, and always has been, a vortex of perpetual change. The 7 million people that live in the city today are presented with a volume of commercial, technological and cultural choice that dwarfs any other period in its history.
After settling into the home we finally found in Turkey, we didn't go anywhere much outside of our locality for a few years until we visited our families in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. There we ate cheese, shouted at our sub dial up internet connection and plotted the longest, realistic overland route home we could find.
On returning from our around the world trip we stayed put for three years before heading off for our second bout of long term travelling, this time with the end goal of finding a new home.