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The last time I sat down and actually wrote down my bucket list, it was 2017! Two years later and I have actually managed to tick off quite a few more of these items, and added even more things to the list, because of course I have! So, here is an updated bucket list with […]
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Well, its not exactly travel related, but it’s Elle related, so I figured that it was okay to write about my experience with reconstructive plastic surgery on this blog. Basically, this post is going to be a collection of small diary entries from three weeks before my first surgery until I am six weeks post […]
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By the time this post goes live, we will already be one week into the new year, and for the first time in a long time, I move forward into this new year with very few definite trips planned, and with the strong likelihood that I will be going on significantly fewer adventures in 2019. […]
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Gosh, it seems like just yesterday that I was celebrating the start of a brand new year while drinking alcohol free bubbles and eating far too much cheese on a night shift! I don’t know how, but the years just keep going more and more quickly. 2018 has truly gone in what feels like the […]
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Yep, it’s that time of year again where all the travel bloggers in all the lands start reminiscing on the year that was. This year, I travelled very differently to the way I have done in the past. Basically, there wasn’t a whole lot of travelling solo! I spent this year in travel with friends […]
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Over the many years that I’ve been travelling, I must’ve met thousands of new people. When you meet this many people, you get very used to doing the whole introduction, get to know each other kinda thing. One of the first questions people ask is what you do for a living. I am a midwife, […]
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I have been thinking a lot lately about my past travels, and of course, there are certain places, activities and experiences that my mind will continue to fondly reminisce about. Over the years, I have stayed in some pretty incredible places. Sometimes these places are memorable for being luxurious, other times for being unique, and […]
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Travelling in a safe, ethical and eco-friendly way isn’t always easy, and it is something that I know I wasn’t as conscious of when I was a newbie traveller. It wasn’t that I didn’t care about it, I honestly just wasn’t fully aware of the ways that my travelling could have a harmful impact on myself, other […]
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After spending years travelling independently, I was a little bit apprehensive about going travelling with father for six weeks. I was worried that I’d struggle with constantly being around someone, I was worried that I’d miss my independence and I was worried that it might involve more fighting than fun. However, it turned that my […]
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When this blog stopped being a hobby and started becoming more of an integral part of my life, I naturally sought out advice on how to grow, how to improve and how to build more of an audience. One piece of advice that seemed to come up time and time again was that a blogger […]
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