Why I Love Venice (Despite Everything)
I love Venice. I have visited it only twice and both times, I only stayed for a few hours, but I have extremely positive feelings about the place. Yet when I first think of Venice (like
By Jamie| 2013-12-07T15:49:49+00:00 September 22nd, 2013|Thoughts and Inspiration|
I love Venice. I have visited it only twice and both times, I only stayed for a few hours, but I have extremely positive feelings about the place. Yet when I first think of Venice (like
By Jamie| 2013-12-07T16:25:57+00:00 September 21st, 2013|Thoughts and Inspiration|
Most people, when they get a job, get a job in order to pay their bills: they do a job not because they love it, but because it serves a purpose and helps them to
By Jamie| 2014-05-15T05:57:38+00:00 August 31st, 2013|Thoughts and Inspiration|
What does it mean to be homeless? Generally, the word homeless has negative connotations attached to it. But what if you choose to be homeless, not because you can't afford a home, but because you
By Jamie| 2016-04-15T02:41:43+00:00 August 30th, 2013|Thoughts and Inspiration|
Note: I had a difficult time while living in Istanbul and in this post I share the negatives. I also wrote a post titled what I loved about living in Istanbul, so read this for the
By Jamie| 2013-12-13T02:33:49+00:00 May 28th, 2013|Thoughts and Inspiration|
If you're a British or American passport holder, you probably (and justifiably) feel somewhat aggrieved by the extortionate cost of visas when you visit other countries. I certainly do. For example, a Chinese tourist visa
By Jamie| 2013-12-16T02:42:09+00:00 May 1st, 2013|Thoughts and Inspiration|
When people choose to learn something, the first thing that they ask is, 'Which course should I do?' Companies such as Rosetta Stone (an expensive, ineffective language learning program) have profited from this attitude because
By Jamie| 2013-12-16T11:05:29+00:00 April 26th, 2013|Thoughts and Inspiration|
'I thought they were going for the kiss but it was the hug and now I just drooled on their face then head-butted them in the nose. Please bury me now.' If you have ever experienced getting
By Jamie| 2013-12-17T04:20:11+00:00 April 16th, 2013|Thoughts and Inspiration|
It's very easy to guess at what we will regret when we die. However, this is a purely hypothetical question for most of us and we can only speculate on the answer. Only the dying
By Jamie| 2013-12-17T04:54:20+00:00 April 8th, 2013|Thoughts and Inspiration|
I often talk about following your dreams and doing in life only what we want to do. I have spoken of moneyless travel and I have lived an unplanned life. I even took the time to justify why I don't get
By Jamie| 2013-12-17T05:08:11+00:00 April 1st, 2013|Thoughts and Inspiration|
I love to eat. Across the world, you will find that each country has it's speciality food of which, they are very proud. As a vegetarian, there are many speciality foods that I cannot eat.
By Jamie| 2013-12-17T05:11:45+00:00 March 29th, 2013|Advice|
Because dying on a plane is bad for your health. Despite air travel being statistically safer than most other forms of transport, many of us are still scared of it. It's probably due to the
By Jamie| 2013-12-17T22:14:47+00:00 March 25th, 2013|Thoughts and Inspiration|
It was with a heavy heart that I recently read about the passing of an individual I met this summer while hitchhiking through Europe. The concept of death is quite an abstract idea that we
By Jamie| 2013-12-21T22:09:47+00:00 March 24th, 2013|Thoughts and Inspiration|
"What would you do with your life if you had a billion dollars?" This question isn't so much associated with money as it is with the lack of need for earning it. What it is
By Jamie| 2013-12-21T23:07:02+00:00 March 15th, 2013|Thoughts and Inspiration|
If you have a great suit-wearing job in a fancy office and lots of money, will you be happier than someone who works outside cleaning the streets? If you go to church and believe fully
By Jamie| 2013-12-21T23:07:19+00:00 March 13th, 2013|Thoughts and Inspiration|
We all know what a map of the world looks like. How would it be if we rearranged it according to culture so that similar countries were placed next to each other? Based upon findings
By Jamie| 2013-12-22T00:02:04+00:00 March 10th, 2013|Advice, Thoughts and Inspiration|
If you have ever thought about quitting your job and travelling the world, this could be the kick up the bum that you need. It is completely free to download and discusses the problems and
By Jamie| 2013-12-22T00:56:39+00:00 March 7th, 2013|Thoughts and Inspiration|
Who doesn’t like getting nominated for awards? Very few people. While the 'Liebster Award' is a completely unofficial award and there is no prize, it is a great way to link up with other explorers
By Jamie| 2016-07-31T21:05:50+00:00 March 1st, 2013|Thoughts and Inspiration|
Please note: This is an opinion piece based upon other articles I have read and comments I have received from readers. It is intended to explore the ideas of why people don't travel and invites
By Jamie| 2013-12-22T01:39:48+00:00 February 24th, 2013|Thoughts and Inspiration|
There is only one time in life when one truly lets go of all their possessions. It's when they die. This is the time when family members come into the home of the deceased, root
By Jamie| 2013-12-27T00:20:50+00:00 February 17th, 2013|Thoughts and Inspiration|
A new obsession has taken hold of people. The smart phone. I was on a subway in Korea a while back and I looked up from the book I was reading. Twenty-five people were in
By Jamie| 2014-01-06T18:14:47+00:00 January 29th, 2013|Thoughts and Inspiration|
How often does $300,000 fall into your inbox? Quite often I have found. Normally the letters are so badly written that they are quite unreadable and you can understand very little other than the idea
By Jamie| 2014-01-09T05:05:08+00:00 January 24th, 2013|Thoughts and Inspiration|
Because I choose not to. You've been galavanting again. When are you going to join the real world and get a real job like the rest of us real people? You are getting a bit
By Jamie| 2013-04-02T00:02:45+00:00 December 22nd, 2012|Thoughts and Inspiration|
Norfolk is a small place. Not physically small. But it is a small place. Despite being the fifth largest county in England, less than a million people live there. Of these people, 24% (compared with
By Jamie| 2013-04-02T00:17:38+00:00 December 21st, 2012|Thoughts and Inspiration|
All around the world, December 21st has been predicted as the end of the world. This stems from the Mayan calendar in which 21/12/2012 marks the end of the thirteenth baktun, at which point a
By Jamie| 2018-02-25T10:16:22+00:00 December 15th, 2012|Thoughts and Inspiration|
Not all adventures need to involve jumping off cliffs or wresting with mountain gorillas. Adventures can be anything that are exciting and new to the person doing them. I would like to share with you
By Jamie| 2013-04-02T00:32:07+00:00 December 14th, 2012|Thoughts and Inspiration|
What springs to mind when you hear the word adventure? What is adventure? My thoughts immediately turn to an image of a pale, slender gentleman, walking through an alien jungle with little protection from the
By Jamie| 2018-02-25T10:52:40+00:00 December 8th, 2012|Thoughts and Inspiration|
Before reading this post, please note that Korea holds a fond place in my heart and there are many things that I love about the country. In fact, I loved my time living in Korea (just
By Jamie| 2013-04-02T22:30:53+00:00 July 15th, 2012|Thoughts and Inspiration|
There is a new Banksy on the scene. I found him in Padova, Italy. "Good artists borrow, great artists steal." Kenny Random has done just that. He has imitated Banksy's style and even some of
By Jamie| 2013-12-08T19:27:37+00:00 July 15th, 2012|Euro Hitch 2012, Thoughts and Inspiration|
What do you like to do when (you think) nobody is watching you? For one man in Porofino, he likes to drive his boat about the coastline without wearing any clothes. I took the photos