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Jess Kay: A Girl with a Passion and a Passport!

Jess Kay: A Girl with a Passion and a Passport!

Jessica Kay has both a passion and a passport, and has been travelling the world with both! Just your average 26 year old girlie-girl, who just happens to have a serious case of wanderlust, she is a speech pathologist by day, travel blogger by night, and traveler by long weekends/vacation time!   So far she has been lucky to have beautiful memories of places near...

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An Interview with Divergent Travelers!

An Interview with Divergent Travelers!

Introducing Lina & Dave!  A married couple from Wisconsin, USA, they have been travelling for 12+ years, solo and together.  Between the two of them they have already visited 31 countries! Everytime they leave the country it ignites something in both of them that leaves them yearning for more as they return to their regimented lifestyles at home. They have come...

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Interviewing the Further Adventures of Bennett!

Interviewing the Further Adventures of Bennett!

Introducing Sarah Bennett; an expert traveler who ended up teaching in China after a conversation with a university friend after a night out at early o’clock. “You’re the only person I know who could do it!” was the explanation. Graduation was soon followed by 6 months in Inner Mongolia and China, which then ended up being extended to a 2 year stay, with a trip home...

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Interviewing Turnipseed Traveler Vanessa Chiasson

Interviewing Turnipseed Traveler Vanessa Chiasson

Vanessa Chiasson is TurnipseedTravel – an ocean loving Maritimer now settled as a freelance writer in Ottawa. Her diverse travels have seen her run marathons in Paris, handle the coffee farms of Hawaii, and tour the national parks of Malawi. Next up? A round-the-world trip with 9 stops, including Turkey, Myanmar, and Australia. When not on the road, she loves...

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An Interview With British Expat Bex

An Interview With British Expat Bex

Introducing Bex! An unconventional British lass with a degree in International Relations, the wrong side of 35 and only just the right side of 40, Bex finds herself living in the unconventional country of Greece. S

he’s traveled to, lived and taught in various places around the globe—Sri Lanka, Cambodia and even helped teach English to the crew of a container ship travelling across the Atlantic Ocean!

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Experiencing Albania

Experiencing Albania

This week’s guest post comes from Catherine Broughton, who has written an interesting and incredibly entertaining account of her experience road tripping through Albania.  We entered Albania via Podgorica in Montenegro.  I don’t know, there is something about the name “Montenegro” that made me think it would be stunningly beautiful – and the coastal area was, but...

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A City Which Revolves Around…Cheese!

A City Which Revolves Around…Cheese!

Having never written about food before, and having noticed how well received my recent posts on international cuisine have been, I have decided to go in search of more interesting and amazing blog topics on food! Europe’s public theatricals centre around their cheese, and their passion for locally produced cheese is rather comical to the eyes of someone coming from...

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Why you’ll get further being nice to Airport Ground Staff

Why you’ll get further being nice to Airport Ground Staff

This week’s guest post is from Bex over at “Life Beyond Borders Blog”!  A jack of all trades, Bex has previously worked London Heathrow airport, where she dealt with high profile passengers and learnt a lot about the logistics of aircraft travel.  She has written the below post based on her experiences as a member of the ground staff. I worked for a number of...

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Foodie Friday: Flavors from Around the World!

Foodie Friday: Flavors from Around the World!

Last week’s “Foodie Friday” blog was so well received that I have decided to make “food” a weekly topic every Friday! As such this week Hannah and Adam from Getting Stamped share with us their favorite flavors from around the world.

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Couch Surfing! Another Accommodation Option!

Couch Surfing! Another Accommodation Option!

In recent years, hospitality exchange websites have revolutionised the way people travel. It used to be unheard of to go and stay in a stranger’s house for free while you’re traveling, but now it’s become a way of life for some people, and a means for connecting travelers across the globe.

Couchsurfing is an example of one of these websites, and its success has grown massively year on year since it was founded in 2004. Hundreds of new members now sign up each day to get involved with this innovative and interactive networking tool.

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Free Accommodation Overseas: How to House-sit!

Continuing our week of accommodation related posts, tonight Nicole and Michael from Suitcase Stories share their expertise on house sitting!  As avid house sitters, Nicole and Michael want to share their experience and show others how a life of travel is not only possible, but also affordable through house sitting. When people hear that we are traveling indefinitely...

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Foodie Friday: Five Weirdest Things I’ve Eaten on my Travels

Foodie Friday: Five Weirdest Things I’ve Eaten on my Travels

This week’s guest post comes from Megan over at Meganotravels! After discovering her amazing blog and realizing that she runs a segment each week called “Foodie Friday” I asked her to submit a blog about the strangest food she has eaten during her travels! Andrew Zimmern I am not, but when I’m traveling somewhere new I try my hardest to stomach some of the...

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National Celebrations in Norway!

National Celebrations in Norway!

This week’s guest post comes from Lew at Planet Lew! An Australian currently living abroad in Norway, this year Lew celebrated her first “syttende mai” with thousands of other patriotic Norwegians out to celebrate their National Day!  Lew blogs about her love of travel, food and music, and you can follow her on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. A lot of...

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Top 5 Reasons You Should Go on a Bike Tour!

This week’s guest post is from adventure couple Kathleen and Brock who run the travel blog “Our Favorite Adventure”. REASONS YOU SHOULD GO ON A BIKE TOUR So you want to go on a bike tour?  Make it a reality and you will have the most fun you have ever had in your life…guaranteed!  Don’t know what a bike tour is?  It’s a two-wheeled, man-powered...

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Colors of the World: Photo Essay

Colors of the World: Photo Essay

You may have recently seen me feature a guest blog from Nicole and Michael at Suitcase Stores on World Landmarks.  Their first photo essay submission was so well received that I have asked them to submit another one! Color is all around us, if only we open our eyes we will see exactly how much.  A cloudless vivid blue sky.  The rich greens in a rain forest.    The...

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The Great Barrier Reef: Guest Photo Essay

The Great Barrier Reef: Guest Photo Essay

There is not a single person I have met on my extensive travels who has not had the Great Barrier Reef (Australia) on their bucket list.  While I have been to part of the reef, I’ve never experienced it like Ben and Charli from Wanderlusters, who, as trained dive-masters can truly say they have experienced the reef in all its magnificence. The Great Barrier Reef is...

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Scuba Diving in Mozambique

Scuba Diving in Mozambique

I love featuring the experiences of fellow travel bloggers…especially when they have traveled to worlds I am yet to explore!  As such, this week’s guest blog comes from Justin Carmack of The Art of Scuba Diving.  When Justin was in Tofo, traveling Mozambique, he finally did something he had always wanted to do: he got Padi certified.  He says: “My first...

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10 Top World Landmarks

10 Top World Landmarks

I’ve been spending the last few weeks networking within the travel blogging community, and have come across some amazing people who run some amazing blogs!  Nicole and Michael from Suitcase Stories are two such people and I am very excited to feature their photo essay on world landmarks as my first guest blog. When we started our nomadic travels 13 months ago we had...

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Kissing in Kenya

Kissing in Kenya

Kissing in Kenya July 28 2010 So we’ll get this out of the way straight away – I made out with a giraffe…a female giraffe apparently!  After checking out and managing to store our bags in the cupboard of hell that was the luggage storage room (seriously, was a very narrow room where every-one had just thrown bags in…was quite similar to a mine field, only...

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