Is travel good for you? I have ZERO doubt that travel is GREAT for you! But being an old academic at heart (little known fact: one of my previous lives was as a university lecturer and I have half a PhD), I have been tinkering with the idea of different ways to prove the many benefits of …
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Confession: I do keep count of the countries I’ve visited
I've been to 43 countries so far. Yes, I know the number off the top of my head because yes, I'm almost a little ashamed to say, I do keep count of how many countries I've visited. I know that a real traveller shouldn't care about this and shouldn't really count countries because it's not a matter …
Would you rather – for travellers – do we think the same?
Fellow travel blogger Shane at Sea Salt Secrets published a great post last week: the Would You Rather: Travel Edition. It is full of fascinating hypothetical questions and definitely got me thinking. I'm going to answer some of Shane's "would you rathers" and a few of my own too - and then I want …


