Bitten by the travel bug and want to make travel your lifestyle? Or are you fresh out of college, ready to explore the world one inch at a time? Whether your dream is to travel for a living or simply build a new life abroad, you can work at making …
8 Things I’ve Learnt While Living Abroad
In the past 5 years, I’ve lived in various countries – from sun-kissed Miami to the cold winters of London and the tapas capital of Madrid, back in my hometown Singapore and now in Granada, Spain. Living abroad has never been easy; in fact it’s quite an emotional ride …
8 Ways to Spice Up Your Travels
Since travelling became a significant part of my lifestyle, I’d come to realize that a conventional travel itinerary was just not enough to feed my thirst for complete cultural immersion or adventurous endeavors. It was time to ditch the guidebook and delve a little deeper, to get to know my destination inside out. …
World’s 7 Best Cities to Live
From Asia to the U.S. and Europe, there are hundreds of cities that constantly attract new residents, thanks to low crime rates, quality of life and many other factors. Spending the past few years moving from one city to another, I’ve had my fair share of scouting for new nesting …
How to Make Money While Traveling
Wanna travel for a long period of time but have no money to do so? No ideas how to sustain your finances on the road? There are tons of ways to refuel your travelling funds as long as you have the means to do so. From teaching English in Spain to working as a dive [...]
The Ups and Downs of a Nomadic Lifestyle
As we drove, for the last time, past the bay area of Singapore, I turned back to see the shimmering night lights of the glitzy city fading behind me. Like time, the city has come and passed. It’s the end of yet another sojourn in the country I call home. Time to hit the road [...]
Moving on: A New Life
I hate this part: post-sojourning. You know the standard withdrawal symptoms –going back to a monotonous routine, feeling like an outsider at home, and basically, the unnerving blues. It’s almost like a drug addiction, you get the jitters and shivers, and your feet itch uncontrollably.
7 Steps to Sustaining Long-term Travel
Having received several emails from my readers, about how I sustain my long-term travels, both financially and professionally, I figured I might just share some of my own experience with you. (Thanks for writing to me, keep them coming!) Truth be told, long-term travelling is not easy, but if you set yourself some rules, …
Guest blogging – Arabic Influence in Granada, Spain
I’d recently written a guest post for fellow travel blogger at Europe A La Carte – a great site for all things related to Europe. I’d decided to write about my home away from home – Granada, Southern Spain. Here’s a sneak peek of my post. A tranquil city in Southern Spain, Granada exudes …
How to Live & Work in the UK/Australia?
London always has this special place in my heart. Living and Working there allowed me to discover what I wanted in Life, and gave me a push towards pursuing what I liked. It was the start of my journey away from home. Although I was never really a Harrods or English-tea-sipping kinda girl, I enjoyed [...]
Teaching English in Spain
While we’re on the topic of Making the Big Move, I thought I might share with you how I started teaching English in the saucy and vibrant capital of Spain, Madrid. Sassy and spirited, Madrid is just like a sultry Flamenco dancer – full of energy, passion and thirst for life. Teaching English here gave [...]
How to Take Baby Steps to Making the Big Move
This post was sponsored by HBF Comprehensive Travel Insurance. Through the past few years of moving from one city to another, many people have asked me these questions again and again, ‘How do you get all that money to travel?’, ‘Have you considered carefully about what it will do to your career?’ , and of [...]
The Best Job in the World – an Island Caretaker
The Australian State of Queensland is offering internationally what it calls “the best job in the world” — earning a top salary for lazing around a beautiful tropical island for six months. The job pays 150,000 Australian dollars (105,000 US dollars) and includes free airfares from the winner’s home country to Hamilton Island on the [...]
One Week Job Project
To kickstart the new year, I have some interesting stuff to share. Isn’t it everyone’s dream to be venturing abroad, or rather, being on a new adventure while on the road? Sean Aiken, freshly graduated from college and not knowing what to do with his life, embarked on an epic journey around North America [...]
Travel writing- Volunteering Abroad
Just started exploring my interest in Travel Writing,had my first article published on Travmonkey.com! Check it out: http://www.travmonkey.com/wordpress/2008/10/14/how-do-i-volunteer-abroad/ Love to hear any feedback from you guys!
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