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    How I Plan To Only Spend £5k On My Gap Year

    July 7, 2022 /

    Yes, you did read that correctly! I am planning to spend only five thousand pounds on my gap year. Which will be a yearlong round the world trip. That works out to just over £13 per day! Want to know how? Keep reading. In this post, I am going to share five things that will help me stick to budget and still enjoy every single moment!  Disclaimer – This post includes some affiliate links which means that I may receive a commission if you use them. This comes at no extra cost to you <3 Firstly, I must acknowledge that I only feel comfortable setting such a tight budget because…

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    Wowcher Mystery Holiday – How Much It Actually Cost!

    June 10, 2022 /

    Back in January 2020, yes a lifetime ago, my mum and I embarked on a Wowcher Mystery Holiday. I paid for the holiday the previous August as a birthday gift for my mum. We finally got the call in September telling us where we were going and the dates. Incredibly by chance, we got assigned Venice, a place which had been at the top of my mum’s bucket list for decades and we were travelling the weekend before her birthday 😱. It couldn’t have worked out better!! I wrote a full review back in 2020, weighing up whether it is actually worth it for the £99 price point. To follow…

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    5 Tips on How to Survive Long Bus Journeys

    May 4, 2020 /

    Travelling by bus is often the cheapest way to travel but it isn’t the most comfortable, hence below are my top five tips on how to survive long bus journeys. My favourite bus companies to travel with are National Express for journeys within the UK and Flixbus for journeys on mainland Europe. For the US I have seen good things about Megabus but have never tried them myself. Wear Layers Layers are your absolute best friend on long bus journeys! Buses often go from being really stuffy and uncomfortable to arctic cold in minutes…. It’s crazy! I try to wear an outfit that allows me to decide how much I’m…

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    5 Places at the top of my Bucket List

    April 26, 2020 /

    My bucket list nowadays is vaguely reminiscent of a list of all the countries in the world 🙂 I spend way too much time on Pinterest reading travel guides from places all over the world both obscure and well known, adding to my bucket list. Yet there are still those places that are ahead of the rest, ones I long to visit and should hopefully be able to soon. Below are five places at the top of my list… BALI, INDONESIA Bali and Indonesia on the whole have been at the top of my bucket list for as long as I can remember. My sister and I have always talked…

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I am obsessed with finding the weird and wonderful ways to make money online, stretching that money as far as it’ll go and travelling on a budget.

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