The Travels of BBQboy and Spanky
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Group Tours vs Independent Travel. Before our recent trip to Georgia and Armenia we’d always travelled independently. In Georgia and Armenia we tried something new: taking part in an 8 day intensive …
When People tell us that “we’re lucky” to Travel Full-time… It always makes me cringe. Maybe I could understand it if the person saying it was from a lesser-developed country. But the majority of …
Different reasons for revisiting Places. There are different reasons why people want to revisit a place. Sometimes they just love a place. Sometimes they want to explore it in more detail or see it in …
Going from travelling full-time to having a base. It was 7 months ago that we left Split. We’ve been thinking about that a lot lately. For those new to the blog: we left Canada in 2014 to travel. One …
What is Slow Travel? And why it’s how we travel We often get comments from people who don’t understand how we travel. “You were a month in Brno?! Why would you do that?” Slow travel means exactly …
Things that seem weird when you go to Europe When we left Canada to travel full-time 4 years ago we didn’t think that most of our travels would be in Europe. It’s a continent we’ve fallen in love …
Tourism and when the locals hate you. Note: I wrote this post in 2017 and much of the focus is on Split (Croatia) where we lived at the time. Split was getting increasingly popular but the numbers …
Why you should travel solo I’m in Sarajevo as I write this after spending the last week visiting my mother in Budapest. The plan had been to go back to Split but Lissette had said to me “why don’t you …
Memories of Childhood Trips I was reorganizing our storage space in Split this weekend when I came across a whole bunch of old photo albums. Looking at them, what I found most interesting was going …
