August 12, 2009 – 11:04 am
Levels of young people unemployed are now at a level not seen since the last recession, according to Sky News. In February of this year, the Local Government Association published a report warning that the UK risks a ‘lost generation’ of young people whose careers have been affected by the recession. We know from previous [...]
If you read this article you might be unable to stop yourself from booking a flight to some exotic location… it’s a list of my favourite, or at least most memorable moments, from my time away (part one). + The kaleidoscope of colour otherwise known as Rio Carnaval parade in the Sambodrome. But for an [...]
My little visit here (just three days) taught me a few lessons! The first lesson is one I keep learning time and time again – booking the cheapest hostel I can find on Hostelbookers might be good for my bank balance but more often than not defeats the object of travelling. Staying in the shittier [...]
Latino music, fruit smoothies, sand and sea…. what else do you need?! Taganga is a little fishing village which is seeing more and more backpackers arrive on its shores. My first night involved staying in a hostel where they let their staff and young children sleep in the same dorm as you – it felt [...]
After an overnight flight from Lima to Bogota, I had two options – the first was to take a long and brutal bus-ride, which seems to have a load of articles on the internet dedicated to putting backpackers off using it. It was more a case of time rather than the scare-stories that made me [...]
One of my fave pics ever – a group of the cutest penguins you can find in South America! I never managed to make it to Ecuador on my travels in South America, so when I heard that Peru offered it’s very own version of the Galapagos Islands I couldn’t pass up the chance! I [...]
