It's funny, when you tell them you're heading overseas on an indefinite adventure people always say that you fall in love with your home so much before you go and if you're single then you definitely find a man (/woman) - usually before you get on the plane which is what inevitably draws you back again. Considering that this is an open blog I'm not going to divulge too many details about my love life - but I can say, that contrary to previous declarations, I am...

As my departure date draws near I thought that running through the planned itinerary and a brief description of why I have chosen these destinations would be fun to look back on later to see how the plan changed (or didn't change) along the way. So, first up I am headed to Munich to visit Ralf, someone I met many years ago when he was backpacking through Australia with two of his friends - one of whom is the son of one of my fathers old work colleagues. It has b...

So, approximately seventeen months ago I decided that enough is enough and that it was time to get serious about saving for the trip I'd been talking about going on for years but kept making excuses about. I had to stop being a 'gonna' person and start being the doer that I knew I really was. Like all good stories however, there is always an obstacle that the main character has to overcome and, as most of you reading this would know, mine was depression. Don't wo...