Sure, travelling can help you find yourself and what not - I've written posts about that. This is not one of those posts. With this one I list seven actual things that will want to make any 'adult' want to throw in the towel and start travelling.
Category: Opinion
How I’ve learned to (almost) stop being a judgmental fuckwit
I'm pretty quick to judge. It's just my nature and it's something I have had to learn to control while travelling. This is a quick one about exactly what I've learnt.
Toast, noodles, rice: eating in Malaysia
I've looked forward to Asia because I love all Asian cuisines, but when it came to Malaysia I was a little disappointed. This is just a short rant about the lack of fruit and veg available. Not that interesting.
Travel-life admin: the worst chore in the world
Everyone hates life admin and it gets worse when you're travelling. This is just a little rant about how shit it is to do life admin when you're in a different country. I know, woe is me.
11 things hostels get utterly wrong and should change immediately
Even good hostels get little things wrong. I've written a lot of posts recently about personal things I have learned while travelling, this is one for the hostel goers! With a little side note about Seminyak, Bali.
Travelling as an introvert: coping with people overload
What do you mean?! You can be an introvert and actually enjoy meeting people while you travel?! I wouldn’t go so far as to say ‘enjoy’ but I certainly hate it a lot less.
Why staying in a former mental clinic isn’t ‘creepy’ or ‘scary’
This just hits home that the stigma around mental illness still remains, if this campsite had once been a hospital that treated people with broken legs, would people be leaving the same reviews?
Sin Sabor: the land of limited flavour
General musings on the limited flavour of savoury snacks in Argentina. Nothing particularly interesting but an observation non-the-less.
Dormlife: what it’s like to share a room with strangers
Having been on the road for four months now enjoying exceptional highs and enduring spirit-crushing lows, one thing has remained consistent: dormlife.
Consciously incompetent: learning to be a traveller
I’m sure we’ve still got a lot more to learn. But at this point I think that to become a fully-fledged traveller you just need to stop giving a shit.
Lisa Pool 