


Setting my Sights on the Stars: I’m Officially in the Top 30 Shortlist to win the Kruger Cowne Rising Star Trip into Space!
I officially have a 3% chance of flying into outer space in 2018! What?! How?! I know, I’m struggling to believe it myself! Since starting this blog I’ve had more […]

Win 2 return flights to New York City & £1,000 spending money with #ThruTheQ
Who doesn’t love a competition with free flights and a wad of spending money involved? If you’re hampering for a taste of the Big Apple, then I have a fantastic competition […]

Travel Competitions Galore! Please vote for The Well-Travelled Postcard!
I love a good competition and I think prizes and awards have the sweetest taste! I went through a rather prolific competition-entering phase in 2013, leading to […]

How to Spend a Weekend in Padua (and Why I’m Dying to Move Back to Italy!)
If you saw my Postcard of the Week on Monday then you’ll already know that I spent last weekend sauntering around the Italian city of Padua (Padova in Italian). […]

Win a pair of First Class train tickets with First Great Western
The kind people over at First Great Western have offered me the chance to travel anywhere in the UK, and asked me where I’d most like to go! This […]

The itinerary for my coast-to-coast #DTour trip across North America in October
It’s been over 2 months since I found out that I’d won the incredible #DTour of a Lifetime competition run by DoubleTree by Hilton (read my blog post about winning), […]

Win a pair of tickets to Bestival on the Isle of Wight for a lucky reader – competition now closed
[This competition is now closed.] If you’re based in the UK then you will probably have heard about Bestival at some point – it’s an annual music festival that traditionally […]

Memories from my Gap Year: Backpacking around Cuba
You might have seen from my previous post about the ‘Tales of Two Cities’ travel writing competition run by Black Tomato, and I did actually enter the competition as […]