Travel Tips and Guides

When your funds are running low but you don’t want to go home what do you do? You get a haircut, buy some new clothes and read the Road Junky Guides to Working Around the World…

Short of ideas? Start with our 101 ways to work abroad guide.

“Look at it this way,” Ford Prefect had said, “Fruit and berries on strange planets either make you live or make you die. Therefore the point at which to start toying with them is when you’re going to die if you don’t. That way you stay ahead. The secret of healthy hitchhiking is to eat junk food.”
(“The Restaurant at the End of the Universe” Douglas Adams)

To travel is a culture in itself. You are detached from the notions of whom you have to be, and the locals and other travellers are as curious about you as you may be about them. Making the most of your time immersed in strange, ever-changing environments is an art. Let go of the assertiveness of your beliefs, share in the customs, learn some of the language, and you’ll emerge transformed.

Most travelers just follow the same old tired route wherever they go. From the bus station to the hostel to the cheap bar and back, repeating the same old routine in just a few places on the backpacker route in every country they travel to.

But travel can be so much more and we’ve come up with a few ideas to help your trip along.

We live in an age where the spirit of care free travel is almost extinct. Travelers these days are armed to the teeth with credit cards, travel insurance and Lonely Planet Guides. Yet it was not always so. For millennia pilgrims, bards and nomads have traveled the globe living only on their wits. From Jesus to Jack Kerouac travelers have hit the road with little more than the clothes on their back and embarked on amazing journeys.

So if you’re planning to trust in the gods and head off with just a few coins in your pocket the resources below will help you along your way.