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Redrow Supporting Children with Cancer

A massive thank you to Redrow & Dave for supporting me running the London Marathon for Children with Cancer UK and giving £200. You’ll spot me around Rhyl training in my Redrow Homes red t-shirt. Why don’t you get involved and help make a massive difference in children’s li...

Parental Advisory, Explicit Content Contained

No pain, no gain. If you’re one of those people that like to see people in agony, public humiliation or just an awesome individual who wants to make a difference in people’s lives, then this is for you! Do something amazing this year, fight against cancer, give so others might...

Read about Alice's childhood cancer

Alice’s mum, Jane, noticed her daughter’s tummy was a bit swollen and that she wasn’t very hungry. Alice was four years old. Jane tells us their story: “In March 2014 I had noticed that Alice’s tummy seemed swollen over a few weeks, and it was larger on one side. I...

London Marathon 2015 for Children with Cancer UK

Do something amazing this year, give so others might live As a cancer survivor I’m always looking for new ways I can raise awareness and vital funds to help battle cancer. I haven’t done anything stupid and gruelling for a while, so on April 26th I will run the London Marathon (26...

Mulu Pinnacles Trek

The Mulu Pinnacles Trek in Mulu National Park is one of the best known treks in Malaysia Borneo, though I couldn’t easily find information online about it. This is information for the Mulu Pinnacles Trek climb only, for more information about our entire trip see my articles on Camp 5 and Mu...

Tortuga Travel Backpack Photographs

Photographs of how the Tortuga Travel Backpack looks in action, this is my preferred backpack of choice for my 8 month trip around Asia after lots of research. Check out my Tortuga Travel Backpack video review for more information. The Tortuga Travel Backpack is designed by backpackers who were u...

Singapore Accommodation Joyfor Backpackers

If you’re looking for a cheap place to stay, clean, has air conditioning, good wifi, breakfast and awesome staff who will look after you, then checkout Joyfor Backpackers in Singapore. We only planned to stay a few days in Singapore; we loved it so much we stayed for eight days. During our...

Save money travelling

We travel on different budgets, but there’s one thing we all have in common, we want to save money travelling around the world, and we want to travel for as long as possible on the funds we have. It’s important to ensure we make our travelling money stretch, while not compromising our travel adve...

We Love Singapore!

This was our first time in Singapore, after spending several weeks in Indonesia it was a stark contrast – clean, efficient, orderly and we loved it! We got off our flight in Singapore and it was nearly midnight, we had a vague idea of how to get to our hostel, Joyfor backpackers. A nice...

Top Indonesia things to do

Here’s our highlights of the top Indonesia things to do from our travelling experiences in February and March, 2014. Indonesia is a huge country and we only managed to see a small portion of it in our 6 week trip, these are the things that we’ll always remember from our time in Indonesia. Do you ...

Flores to Bali by Bus

Travelling from Flores to Bali by bus can be difficult, taking the bus and ferry route is one of the cheapest options, but it might not the easiest. We’ll outline your options, the costs, pros and cons, further information and then go through the booked bus and ferry choice that we took and...

House Sitting Video

Currently we’re travelling around Thailand, and we got some time to make a quick house sitting video of our house sitting exploits to go on our Trusted House Sitters profile page. We like to call this house sitting video version 1.0, it’s pretty basic and made in movie maker, as we...

Wae Rebo Diary

Emily’s Diary of Wae Rebo, Indonesia, Flores 16th March, 2014. 16/3/14 - Wae Rebo is a traditional village, located in the crater of a very old volcano, 1100 meters above sea level, in the Manggarai district, West Flores, Indonesia. Isolated, it takes an adventurous drive to the small ...

Getting to Wae Rebo

Getting to Wae Rebo is difficult but well worth the effort. Wae Rebo is a traditional village, located in the crater of a very old volcano, 1100 meters above sea level. Set in Manggarai district, West Flores in Indonesia, you first have to figure out how to get to the village of Denge, then...

Geocaching around the Globe

We’ve been Geocaching around the globe as we travel, and introducing fellow travellers to the wonderful world of geocaching. Here’s a quick update of what we’ve been up-to with our geocaching exploits… Luke (Emily’s brother) would be ashamed of us for how little...

Top things to do in New Zealand North Island

New Zealand is stunning; there is so much to see. While we’re travelling the globe we often get asked what are the top things to do in New Zealand North Island, where to go and what to see. The list is huge, there’s so much to see and do, from my time travelling New Zealand in 2010 ...

Top things to do in New Zealand South Island

New Zealand is stunning; there is so much to see. While we’re travelling the globe we often get asked what are the top things to do in New Zealand South Island, where to go and what to see. The list is huge, there’s so much to see and do, from my time travelling New Zealand in 2010 ...