Asia
We’ve spent over 3 years in total travelling around Asia and we consider it to be our favourite continent on Earth (so far). The people here are friendly, you almost always feel safe and the landscapes offer everything from grasslands and beaches to mountains and waterfalls. Asia is everything you hoped for and more.
Celebrating Christmas in Yangzhou, China
Like most of you back home in North America, we were off for the Christmas holidays…well, 2 days of it! The Chinese don’t celebrate Christmas so we were glad to actually have Christmas Eve and Christmas Day off. In all honestly, I don’t think we would have had those 2 days as holidays had they not ...
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Backpacking India: The Ultimate Budget Guide
Backpacking India is the ultimate experience. The flavours, the culture, the people, the colours, the history, the sites, the beaches, the wonder and the chaos all combine and explode in the face of visitors to the sub-continent. There is just something about Backpacking in India. It’s so wonderfully different that you will have all of ...
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Lost In Translation: Menus Of China
While travelling around China and now living here for the past 5 months, we’ve seen some strange things on the menu. Sometimes they make us laugh, sometimes they make us worry, but they’re always entertaining. If a Chinese restaurant owner decides to try to create an English menu, it makes for a very funny read. ...
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Living In Yangzhou, China
The City of Yangzhou is set alongside many canals and has some beautiful parks, gardens and a great Old Town. There are many nearby cities that can be easily explored on a weekend – Suzhou, Wuxi and Nanjing to name a few. The sprawling metropolis of Shanghai is only 1.5 hours by train, which makes for a ...
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Moving To Yangzhou, China
After travelling the world for 16 months, we weren’t ready to go home and settle down, but we needed a bit of a break from backpacking. Making the decision to move to Yangzhou, China and sign a 1 year contract teaching English was a no-brainer for us. After backpacking through this massive country for about ...
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Budget Guide to Backpacking The Philippines
The Philippines is a place that manages to remain off of the average budget backpacker’s Southeast Asian itinerary, which is a surprise because it is a great place to travel. Cheap internal flights link many of the 7000+ islands and good local transport can get you around the islands once you’ve reached them. This is ...
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