Goats On The Road Posts
Budget Backpacking Guide To Turkey
Turkey is perhaps one of the great under-rated travel destinations of our time. Sure the west is a popular tourist destination frequented as a party holiday for many European travellers, but the east remains an untouched, authentic world which beckons adventurous backpackers to explore. This is one of the cheapest countries to travel and it’s ...
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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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Taking A Timeout From Travel
Our 16 month world trip was coming to an “end”. We were finishing up our travels through China and making our way down to Hong Kong, where we would be flying out to Vancouver. So many thoughts go through a traveller’s mind when they reach the end of a long trip and are going back ...
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Top 10 Most Beautiful Islands
When you think of the word “island” images of deserted, stunning beaches, swaying palm trees and lush jungles come to mind. Which is pretty much bang on! In this Top 10 list, you’ll find beautiful islands that are countries in themselves, autonomous regions or just lonely dots of land out in the sea. Based ...
