I arrived in Switzerland on a cold morning. I forget which day exactly, Friday I think. I’d just stepped off an overnight bus from Berlin, still a little sleepy, and hovered around the bus station trying to find my bearings. A Starbucks was nearby, so I stood outside, praying to the travel gods for a

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One thing you’ll notice if you’re on the road a lot is the scene changes and develops very quickly. Sometimes you’re telling a fellow traveller how you “Wish there was a way to do so-and-so” and a month later there’s a site to do exactly that. Every year I try out as many of these

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If you’ve ever travelled for any longish period of time, you’ll know it goes something like this: You spend months prior to your trip at the gym (because you’re going to meet your soulmate and fall in love out there, of course). You spend the first week of your trip eating shitty food like pizza

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It’s true – New Zealand is a great place to visit. However, people always seem to have one major complaint about my home country – it’s too expensive. And this, is also true. After many years of travel, I can confirm that New Zealand, particularly the big cities, are some of the most expensive places

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