Notes On The Lessons Learned From Ditching University For Travel

Who’s to say where the wind will take you Who’s to say what it is will break you I don’t know Where the wind will…

Ex-pat Life: Travelling Alone In Your 20s Isn’t As Scary As You Think

Follow my blog with Bloglovin   I don’t know about you, but Geography was never my best subject. I rarely looked at maps as a…

Ex-pat Life: How My Happiness and Well-Being Have Improved By Living Abroad

  It’s half past 4 in the afternoon and I’m still in my nightgown, eating cereal from the box. The pain caused by my condition…

Do Talk to Strangers: Sharing Food and Facing Fears in Syracuse, Sicily

This one’s a short post with a meaningful story behind it. Here I am in Sicily, about two months into my summer fling with Italy-…

Ex-pat Life: Is It Homesickness Or Something Else?

It’s Friday today, which here in Maldives is the weekend (plus Saturday, back to work Sunday). I find that every single Friday (where I don’t…

Do Talk To Strangers: On a Hydrofoil to Capri

  It’s 8AM, I’ve had my morning cuppa and I’m dressed and ready to leave- to where, I’m not sure yet. Passing through the kitchen…

Do Talk To Strangers: At a Bus Stop to Amalfi

  As a solo traveler, there’s no end to the amount of people you’ll get talking to. Who you happen to meet on your travels…

My First Hostel Experience: Sorrento (Sant’Agnello)

My solo trip around Italy starts off in the beautiful coastal town, Sorrento. I checked in for 5 nights (then a night in Naples) so…

Is An Ex-pat Just An Immigrant With The “Right” Passport?

After reading an article on the guardian, The British abroad: expats, not immigrants, I’ve been thinking a lot about the different kinds of people who live and…

Short Expat Breaks: Fihalhohi Resort

Last weekend I had the privilege to escape the crowded, narrow streets of Male’ and relish in the idyllic stillness bound within the remote island,…

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