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How I Survived Visa Limbo

One month stuck in Southeast Asia. One month! A slight technicality when applying for my Australian work visa led to a slight delay, which gradually became an even longer delay. […]

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Learning from a Sunrise in KL

Kuala Lumpur wasn’t the most exciting place I ever visited. I had originally gone after reading a travel article (possibly on BBC Online) that is was a cheaper alternative to […]

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How I Funded My Travel Intensive Lifestyle

Attending the TBEX conference in Toronto, I and a few other bloggers I get on well with noted that during the Q&A slots at the end of each session, again […]

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Does work affect your leisure travel style?

This is a question I’ve asked myself a few times recently, especially when deciding what to do with my downtime and trying to understand my needs on a leisure trip. […]

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How to invest in yourself while working abroad

Time working abroad either as an expatriate deployment or on a short term internship, for example through the IAESTE program as I did when I worked in Mongolia, certainly it isn’t […]

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Beware the pitfalls of a travel-intensive career…

“Your life sounds so glamorous!” One of these days I’ll hear it enough times to believe it. I laugh silently inside as the checkout assistant, fellow coffee customer or friends […]

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5 Places I Will Gladly Go Back To

Malta & Gozo I’ve been to the Maltese Islands twice in my life – once in my early teens with my family, which turned out to be the best family […]

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Grindr Groundrules for the Road

It’s no secret that I use online dating to get to know people while on the road, and location-based apps like Grindr are great in that you can easily get […]

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Russia’s Redeeming Features

Let’s be honest, I’ve not been particularly positive about my visit to Moscow and St Petersburg a year ago (see here and here), and in all fairness, Mother Russia hasn’t […]

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What advice would you give to someone going to Gay Pride for the first time?

That was the question I posed to a number of people I met as I popped my Gay Pride cherry for the first time at World Pride in Toronto (I […]

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How to be a Travelling Engineer

One of the most common questions that I receive is from engineering students - or recent graduates - who are trying to figure out what they want to do with their lives. "How do you get a job working as...

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Learning from a Sunrise in KL

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