Category: The Journey

As a self-confessed lover of travel and all things related it’s little wonder the idea of living on a yacht and sailing the world appealed to me. I wasn’t a sailor when I watched the documentary, which changed my life. It was the story of Laura Dekker, the youngest girl to have ever sailed solo…

How battling breast cancer took me on a road trip across Canada and pushed me to the life I always wanted.

Solo travel gets exhausting and over time we find ourselves needing to rest. Often our minds are not ready to stop as we continue to dream of the next location and adventure. Expats understand that there comes a moment when we are physically and mentally too drained. We will inevitably reach a time when we…

The buzz of entering my first year at university studying Biosciences. New people, new city and new experiences. But that joy soon mellowed as it seemed everyone around me already had experience. So I had to bring myself up to speed. That’s when I discovered the opportunity of a lifetime. An expedition to Costa Rica…

How a Toddler Opened my Eyes to the Everyday Wonder of Nature We often view a journey as the means to an end. Excitedly looking forward to reaching our planned destination and therefore the end of the journey. This can lead us to book more and more exotic holidays chasing the ultimate experience to create…

Discovering Paris through acts of kindness Three years ago, on one of my most memorable trips, I learned about a little word called kindness. Kindness is when you are willing to help others without expecting anything in return. This was my first time travelling to Paris and it was a lot more eventful than expected.…

I’d never viewed myself as someone who had a drinking problem, rather as a “regular” drinker who could take it or leave it. Alcohol went hand in hand with celebration, commiseration, sad times, happy times and everything in between. Most of all, though, alcohol was a trusty travel companion, and no journey or holiday would…

Travelling can be enjoyed even more when you stop, breathe, and take in the small things. From small hikes to rural getaways across Southern California, I’ve discovered that the little things can sometimes prove to be the most impactful and important parts of a journey into a new chapter.

How gardening let us travel As I step into my allotment garden, I am confronted with a sweet bird song. My raised beds are bursting at their seams with homegrown vegetables, and the air is buzzing with happy and grateful bees. I get to work, cutting lilac sweet peas and pulling up weeds that have…

Exercising my right to be part of the elections back home In 2017, while I was in Australia, the right to vote abroad became a possibility for the 900.000 Chileans living overseas. Of those, around 57,5% have spent 20 years or more in the place where they currently are. However, their interest in Chilean politics…

After graduating college in 2016, I struggled to figure out what to do and where to go next. After some deliberation and plastering different locations and ideas on my college bedroom wall, I followed the one thing that made my heart jump, and started planning a solo summer adventure through Europe. Here is my solo…

“My family is in Santiago and I’m somewhere else” It’s almost that time of the year when we feel more connected with the people we love, with the memories we share, and with everything that makes us who we are. During this time of the year I always feel more nostalgic about the moments I…

If you don’t know what to get for the wanderlust, adventure-seeking globe-trotter in your life, then look no further; we have all you need right here. Check out our best Christmas gift ideas of 2021.

How my Tinder date abroad became my husband This is my story marrying my international online date. Well, it isn’t a typical love story, I guarantee, because it didn’t begin with the love itself. I didn’t know that the day I met Dave in Hamburg would lead to the day where I said, ‘’I do,…