You'd think that since travelling is, on many occasions, completely optional, that those of us who suffer from anxiety before travel would just give up doing it. But I certainly haven't, and I've been surprised over the years to discover so many of my fellow travel-lovers who find some aspects of …
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Expat Life on Three Continents – Episode 92 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast
Being back in Japan recently - the country I first moved to when I decided I needed to leave my home country of Australia for a while - brought back a flood of memories about expat life. I loved so many parts of being part of another country and culture for a couple of years. It's not always easy …
Bargaining and Tipping on Your Travels – Episode 91 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast
Questions of money can get tricky and icky. And that's why I was fascinated to hear everybody's differing viewpoints on bargaining or haggling when you travel, along with some talk of tipping too (being from Australia, a non-tipping culture, this stresses me no end ... well, as does the bargaining …