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4/50: 54 Hours in Paris

Browsing the stalls along the river

Paris had never been top of my ‘ I want to travel to…’ list.  Despite numerous friends raving about their experiences, it just didn’t hold a great appeal for me.  However, my aim this year to enjoy proximity travel, combined with a visit from my cousin and her boyfriend [...]

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3/50: Turning Research into Reality

The third in the ’50 steps around the world’ series.  Following on from last week’s post I look at how to turn all of that in-depth research into some practical planning.

Planning is a personal thing.

I’m a list gal.  I love a good list of things to do, it structures my thoughts, organises my time and [...]

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2/50: How to plan a trip around the world

The second in my series of 50 blogs documenting my trip preparations.

Where on earth do you begin?  How do you start to condense this massive yet vague idea into an executable plan? What stops you throwing in the towel before the idea (or you) is off the ground?

The answer here is research.
Whatever your travel style [...]

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1/50: After a Hiatus

So, I took the job.  There it was, a job which meant  more responsibility, more money, more promotion opportunities  and more stability, and I didn’t want it. In fact, I’d resolved to turn the job down and I began to write the email saying just that.  The words written,  I moved to send the proclamation of [...]

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