Category Archives: Travel

FOTO FRIDAY: WORLD PENGUIN DAY

FOTO FRIDAY: WORLD PENGUIN DAY

Every Friday I’ll be sharing a photo from someplace in my travels. This week’s photo is of a gentoo penguin in Hong Kong. Today is World Penguin Day, and as Johnny’s favorite animal, I felt the need to pay tribute to these cute flightless birds. I honestly never gave much though to penguins before meeting Johnny, and I […]

CELEBRATING HOLY WEEK IN THE PHILIPPINES

CELEBRATING HOLY WEEK IN THE PHILIPPINES

Easter and Holy Week are a pretty big deal in the Philippines, which is one of the most religious countries in the world, with over 95% of the population actively practicing religion. Their religious roots trace all the way back to around 1500 thanks to Magellan accidentally landing in Cebu during his search for the […]

TRAVEL TUESDAYS: INTERVIEW WITH SAMANTHA AND YEISON OF MYTANFEET

TRAVEL TUESDAYS: INTERVIEW WITH SAMANTHA AND YEISON OF MYTANFEET

This week we would like to introduce Samantha and Yeison of Mytanfeet. Meet Samantha, she’s one half of the pair behind the blog Mytanfeet. Her boyfriend Yeison and her live at the beach in Costa Rica and after 2 years of international long distance dating, they decided to be together and follow their dreams to travel the world. The […]

TRAVEL TUESDAYS: TOP 3 REASONS TO VISIT BANAUE

TRAVEL TUESDAYS: TOP 3 REASONS TO VISIT BANAUE

This week we would like to welcome back Agness of eTramping. Agness and Cez were some of the first travel bloggers I interviewed for my Travel Tuesdays segment. At eTramping you can find plenty of budget travel tips on how to travel the world with $25 in your pocket. They both have been traveling and living in different Asian countries since […]

BEAUTIFUL BOHOL: YES IT’S OPEN FOR TOURISM AND THERE’S NO BETTER TIME TO GO THAN NOW!

BEAUTIFUL BOHOL: YES IT’S OPEN FOR TOURISM AND THERE’S NO BETTER TIME TO GO THAN NOW!

If you watch the world news, you’ve probably heard of Bohol. Located east of Cebu, Bohol is the 10th largest island in the Philippines, and was once a popular tourist destination for both local Filipinos and foreign visitors. Tragically, in October 2013, it was devastated by a 7.2 magnitude earthquake. The whole region of the […]

FOTO FRIDAY: EARTH HOUR IN HONG KONG

FOTO FRIDAY: EARTH HOUR IN HONG KONG

Every Friday I’ll be sharing a photo from someplace in my travels. This week’s photo is of the Hong Kong skyline during Earth Hour. Earth Hour was celebrated across the world last week, as millions powered off their lights for an hour. Cited as the world’s worst city for light pollution, surprisingly enough, Hong Kong also took […]

INSIDE ISLAM: VISITING THE STUNNING, YET SURPRISING NATIONAL MOSQUE

INSIDE ISLAM: VISITING THE STUNNING

Malaysia may be the second Islamic country I’ve visited, after the Maldives, but it’s really the first time I’ve been able to explore an Islamic country. Sure, in the Maldives we heard the prayer calls when we were in Male and we saw a couple of mosques from afar, but that was really all we […]

TRAVELING TUESDAYS: INTERVIEW WITH THE GUY OF FLIGHTS AND FRUSTRATION

TRAVELING TUESDAYS: INTERVIEW WITH THE GUY OF FLIGHTS AND FRUSTRATION

This week we would like to introduce The Guy of Flights and Frustration. His first true experience of travel was inter-railing around Europe for a month whilst in University. Then once he started working, he went on a 17-month placement to live and work in Saudi Arabia. Since then he has become an international business traveller for more than […]