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It can be easy to think that saving money is a luxury reserved for those with high income. But that couldn’t be further from the truth! It’s been years since I’ve written about budgeting and saving money, but it’s something…
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Every traveller has a mental list of their travelling essentials – those things they just can’t live without. When I first started travelling, I didn’t have a clue, I always used to take too much and find halfway that what…
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It’s been quite a while since I last blogged about ways of saving money when you travel, but I’ve had a lot of requests after I saved my parents hundreds on their upcoming holiday and had then booked flights to…
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Two things that are always very important to me when planning a trip, is keeping my trips both as budget-friendly and eco-friendly as possible. I’ll always be a backpacker at heart and while, of course, it’s nice to treat yourself…
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One of my absolute highlights while I was down in Fremantle, was a day trip I took over to Rottnest Island. Some of you may have heard of these delightful little creatures called Quokkas after the craze started for getting…
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Life can be pretty expensive as we get a bit older – with mortgages to pay and bills ever increasing, it’s no surprise that so many twenty-somethings are being forced to sacrifice some of their favourite music events in a…
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One of the most common messages I receive from readers asks about how to budget for backpacking. I write about saving money and how to plan trips a lot on this site, but one thing I really want to focus…
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There’s no denying the East Coast is a huge draw for young travellers heading to Australia. With its white sandy beaches, epic party spots and the Great Barrier Reef on your doorstep, it’s become something of a rite of passage for…
Continue readingI write a lot about budget travel – about how to make every dollar and very pound stretch that little bit further and how to make the most of what you have. Because that’s what we backpackers do, we make…
Continue readingFor months on end you slog your guts out working crummy jobs to save as much money as possible. You while away the hours stacking shelves or getting groped as you pull pints in some bar, always thinking of the…
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