Setting ‘New Year’ resolutions in September: How to seize that post-summer energy to help yourself and help change the world
After a busy summer kept me away from the blog, I’ve just spent 10 days on holiday by the sea in south-west France, on what feels like my annual DIY […]
The Well-Travelled Podcast Episode 10: How to save the world from overtourism and make travel sustainable following the pandemic
Episode 10 of The Well-Travelled Podcast is now live! It’s all about how we as travellers and the travel industry should recover from the pandemic, by prioritising long-term sustainability, and […]
How to Save the World from Mass Tourism
It’s August and much of Europe has hit the pause button while everyone heads off on their holidays. August is normally a quiet ‘silly news’ month, but this year it […]
Capturing my Raleigh ICS Experience in Nepal on Video
If you thought you’d heard the last from me about Nepal, you thought wrong… Earlier this year I spent almost 4 months living and volunteering in Nepal with the sustainable […]
Observing Plan International’s Work to Improve Maternal Health in Rural Nepal
I’ve been a Digital Ambassador for the global children’s charity Plan UK (the UK arm of Plan International) for over a year now and I’ve loved supporting the charity’s campaigns, […]
Good Deeds Through Travel: How to Sponsor a Child in a Developing Country
I was having a picnic lunch with my friend Katharine in a sunny Soho square last summer in London, as our offices were relatively close, and we were catching up […]
Diary of a Raleigh ICS volunteer in Nepal: Part 3
It’s now 11 weeks since our first arrival in Bhalu Khola and we’ve just completed our ICS project here. Phase 3 was very different to the other two and we’ve […]
How Nepal is Surviving 1 Year after the Earthquake
One year ago on the 25th April 2015, a 7.8 scale earthquake hit Nepal, killing nearly 9,000 people, injuring 21,000 and leaving 3.5 million Nepali people homeless. The damage caused […]
The Well-Travelled Postcard 