One of my favourite things about music is the joy of the memories a song can bring back. Now that we are stuck inside and travel is no longer an option I decided the next best thing would be to travel through music!
30 Day Travel Playlist Challenge
A Tea Drinker’s Guide to Coffee Shops in Hanoi
Hanoi's famous egg coffee might be what draws most people into one of its many coffee shops but not me! This tea drinker was in search of cute and quirky and I can confidently say that's what I found!
5 Reasons to Travel Solo
Travelling Solo sounds scary but it can be the best way to travel for so many reasons. Don't believe me? Here are 5 reasons to travel solo!
China by Sleeper Train: If Sleep is for the Weak then call me a Body-Builder…
December 29th, the day after my 25th birthday, I boarded my first ever sleeper train. It is a backpacker rite of passage when travelling through Asia to take at least one journey on a sleeper train and, having been in China for a whole year, I figured it was about time I gave it a …
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TEFL Tip Tuesday: What’s it all about?
I had a thought recently that maybe I could share what I've learnt over the past year on my blog for people who are looking into teaching English as a foreign language. Coming into a classroom as a new teacher can be daunting and sometimes it is nice to feel like there is someone right …
How to get to the Leshan Buddha (from Chengdu).
I arrived in Chengdu with one plan and one plan only: visit the Panda Research Centre! With four days to explore the city it was clear I was going to have to add some other activities to my itinerary, so I did a little research and discovered the Leshan Buddha just outside of Chengdu. Despite …
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Easy as ABC: How to Become an English Teacher in China
I have recently been receiving a lot of messages about how I became TEFL qualified, how I got my placement and what company I used to get here. I do always try to reply to these as soon as possible but with the time difference between China and the UK, the not so reliable internet …
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Staying Put: 10 reasons I can’t leave China quite yet.
I am about a month away from completing my internship here in Sanxiang and the original plan was to move on from here to Vietnam at the beginning of August… but I just can’t quite do that, turns out China isn’t finished with me yet. I have been offered a job at the middle school …
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