What Items to Take to A Travel Conference

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Your comprehensive list of items to take to any travel conference and why. Some of these items are no-brainers but some you may not have considered. Notebook For obvious reasons, for all those notes you want to take. It is also proven that you are more likely to remember something that you have physically written […]

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How The Born Wanderess Came to Be

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Oh my god Becky, look at her Blog! It’s here; 19 months in the making, from the first thought until publishing day, today. I remember talking to a friend at Easter in 2017 about all the blogs I had started reading and how Id signed up to “Bloglovin” and downloaded the app, so I could […]

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Preparing for 6 months of travel, in South East Asia, in 6 weeks

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I was still sitting in Ubud, Bali having the most amazing 10-day experience. Reconnecting with my thoughts, myself, and thinking about what I hold dear and what I’m passionate about. The thing that kept playing repeatedly in my mind was, “I don’t want to let go of this feeling” The feeling of freedom, the feeling […]

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The many paths that lead me to Bali

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Prior warning, this is a long and winding post that is going to take you down a number of paths. Hang in there friends and remember to be kind.  My recent trip to Bali was a complete spur of the moment trip, organised in less than 2 weeks.  When I say organised I mean I […]

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Hello World! Where it all started for me…

I often get asked when I started travelling and why I love it so much. My high school offered an exchange program, to Germany, when I was 15 in ‘98/99. I didn’t want to go. It was 6 weeks over summer, including Christmas and New Year, and none of my friends were going. My parents […]

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