During the Christmas break in 2014 my friend and I decided to take a trip around Berlin and also into Poland to spend Christmas Day in Krakow. The tour of Berlin was subsequently split into two halves, with a couple of nights there before Poland and a couple of nights spent thereafter. On the return leg of Berlin we didn’t have a place to stay and like most nights, we searched for a place online …
Now I’m not one to judge a trip based on the quality of the place where you’re staying, but please – on this occasion, allow me to make an exception. I want you to think of an Ewok Village, think of the Shire out of Lord of the Rings, think of a scene from Harry Potter, or a scene from Game of Thrones; now, mash them all together and you’re somewhere close to the magic …
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At a young age I went through a stage in my life where I had many questions about my disability. Why am I different, mum? Why can’t I play football like the other kids, mum? Is my condition going to get worse, mum? Why do I have to have more surgery, mum? My head was bamboozled. It was at this same time that I began to feel extremely sorry for myself. As my questions began to …
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 horrible misunderstanding at a Vietnamese barber shop yesterday means that the sea breeze is not only surrounding my bare head …
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 having a disability is something that is hard to overlook. Although huge strides have been taken in order to ensure …
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 the ferocious Dengue Fever outbreak that has consumed the entire area, it was finally time to venture out and get …
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 few nights or staying with a host off Couch Surfing – no, we are here to undertake our internships which are …
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 our way from Phnom Penh in the south of Cambodia. We were once again subjected to some rather ballsy driving …
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 and had been staying with an incredible girl named Van Cola who had not only been truly hospitable but she’d …
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 of being dumped on the side of the road about it. I had to remind myself that getting off the …
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