One of the ways I manage to travel so much has been by figuring out the best way to get cheap flights. In this post I am opening up and sharing just how I manage to do that. I get a lot of questions about how I manage to travel…
With New Zealand being so far away from everything, we don’t have very many options for airlines to get out into the big wide world. Even harder is finding a cheap flight to anywhere! But now, Fiji Airways is emerging as an awesome cheap, quality airline which serves as a…
In travel, there are organised people who are on time to every place, triple check all the travel details before leaving the country, and never anywhere without all their possessions safely in hand. Then, there are people like me. People who spend half the trip wandering around looking for something…
When they see my photos or stories from my travels, many people often ask me, ‘how did you find out about that place?’ or ‘how did you get to there?’. Well today, I’m going to tell you my secret: My main travel hack is to travel with a local. When…
If you have the opportunity to go to the country of the language you want to speak, whether you are there for a few weeks or a few years, you can definitely improve your language abilities vastly, particularly your speaking abilities. After all, you are in a place full of people who possess the skill you want!
On the other hand, if you go to a place and attempt to understand people, attempt to connect deeply with others – feel your tongue moving in a different way as it tackles a new language, feel your face flush as you realise your starting to understand what people are saying, get what you want by negotiating with people, and make memories in a different language… your experience is going to be that much more rewarding.
In my opinion if this happens to you, you might have missed the point of travelling. We should not be living trip-to-trip, barely surviving through the time we have to spend in our home countries, counting the days until we can leave again.