Travel to change your life
Do you feel like going on a trip but you’re not 20 anymore and you think it’s too late? No, the journey that will change your life can be taken at any age! I often meet people my own age who think they are too old to go on an adventure. They think that … Read more
The big trip is the dream? Let’s have a look behind the scenes and welcome to reality! A shot of blues ? But what an idea! The image of the trip is idyllic, the traveller can only be happy! Travel sounds for many people like holydays. Photo of a trekker on the top of the … Read more
What if I told you about the painful things on the trip? Let’s start with harassment! The truth and nothing but the truth? Then we have to talk about what the journey can also have as a constraint: harassment.At the top of the anti-travel arguments, harassment is the trio of winners, after security (all … Read more
Adapting and showing respect: the basis of the journey! It’s not always easy to adapt to codes of good conduct or to comply with etiquette when you come from an uncomplicated and fairly tolerant society. However, it is necessary to integrate them quickly and act accordingly to avoid problems. What seems trivial, ridiculous or unimportant … Read more
Choose the budget and the conviviality: dormitories and hostels are great! I’m often asked how I can travel like this for so long. People who ask me this question know that the most important thing in a travel budget is accommodation. They have in mind the hotel prices that are displayed on the booking platforms … Read more
Being generous is all well and good, but how do you respond to begging with a good attitude and a real good deed? Here you are, fresh off the plane and it starts: Please Help, please! You are assailed from all sides by children, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, handicapped people… In some countries beggars are legion … Read more
Whoever wants to travel far buys the right walking shoe! Travelling is certainly sitting in a bus, a car or (more rarely) a plane, but it is also walking. Walking, crawling, hiking or trekking. And all this requires a bit of organisation: there is less room in a backpack than in a wardrobe: you … Read more
Even if you are prepared, having read everything well on the forums and travel guides, when you are victim of theft, everything rushes in and you get a bit lost Having faced the complete disappearance of my beloved belongings, including my backpack, here are a few tips for before and after the disaster. To do … Read more
Going far and long requires a drastic selection of what you take with you. In this 10kg of luggage, is there a small place for elegance? It’s not always easy to be chic, presentable and well-ironed when travelling long distances. A backpack is not a dressing room, you have to make choices. Yet I often … Read more
How do you travel so long, did you win the lottery or something? Yes, while travelling you need money like everywhere else, it’s a reality but with these few tricks… much less than in France! In Asia, the Middle East and many countries, people live very comfortably on a small budget of 10 to 15 … Read more
