January 18th – January 25th, 2016. Location: Australia. As I sit soaking up the slow paced atmosphere that is Bondi Beach with a freshly ground flat white in one hand an overly priced vegan brownie in the other, memories of the hellish three days of continuous travel just to get here seem a distant memory. A …
After several months spent in Taiwan I thought I’d give a run down on twelve things to expect when you’re visiting or living in this sub-tropical paradise. Here are my eleven key points and ways to tell you’ve arrived in the Republic of China. 1) Any time is a good time for a nap Whether …
I’ve almost been forced into writing this short post after hearing the same question repeated on many occasions. “Why are you in a wheelchair?” – It’s something that everyone hesitates to ask but always find a way to put it out there. So here’s the lowdown. The embarrassment and stigma which is sometimes attached to …
Tainan is Taiwan’s oldest city and was also for many centuries the capital until the Japanese named Taipei as the capital city in 1894, shortly after their colonisation of the island. After a number of weeks spent keeping a fairly low profile in Tainan, due to adjusting to Uni life and hellishly trying to avoid …
When Emilija and I first arrived in Wellington we were immediately met with a whole host of problems. Firstly we had no where to live; as usual we were winging it to the extreme. Wellington isn’t just a place where we are merely passing through and could therefore rely on finding a hostel for a …
No trip to Siem Reap is complete without a visit to Angkor Wat. Anyone other than a returning visitor to Cambodia can simply not get away failing to see the worlds largest religious monument – it really is a MUST SEE! We had arrived in Siem Reap after yet another gruelling 8 hour bus journey, this time making …
In August 2015, after spending a great few days in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, my friend and I decided that it was time to hit the road again and head to Cambodia for the next stop on our Asian adventure. Whilst in Ho Chi Minh we’d managed to break both our Couch Surfing virginities …
As we approached the start of a suspension bridge that connects Vietnam’s north-east mainland to the small island of Tuan Chau, the bus we’d been travelling on for the past three and half hours came to an abrupt stop. My friend and I were then ushered off and handed our bags; it had an air …
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Spending a night in Poznan, Poland – as a wheelchair user, plus how to get there from Berlin.