We set up this blog to share stories and tips from our travels.
We're both passionate about travel, exploring new places, meeting new people and embracing different cultures and hope our blog makes you want to travel too. Having read my fair share of travel blogs, I feel like the best ones are the ones that keep it #real and talk about the good, bad and the ugly of travel. We want to write the kind of blog that'll make you try and hide your laughter as you're sat in the office revelling in our disasters, but also the kind that makes you want to get out there yourself.
Anyone who knows us will know that we don't have much luck, so why we thought travelling the world for months on end was a good idea, we'll never know.
Prior to this trip, the few holidays we've been on have gone badly and that's putting it nicely.
There was the time we went to Brussels on the Megabus from Hell and then couldn't get back because the Channel Tunnel was stormed by migrants.
There was that time we hired a boat in Corfu and accidentally lost the anchor, costing us a hefty €100.
There was that time we couldn't afford to eat after being fined €100 for an anchor, and spent the remaining days of our holiday drinking €1.90 bottles of wine and loitering outside bars for free WiFi.
There was that time I got knocked out by a set of trays at 30,000ft.
There was also that time Callum got his iPhone stolen by an irate taxi driver.
There was that time Callum had a 13 hour layover at Johannesburg Airport and nearly got abducted.
There was that time I went on horseback safari in South Africa and the lost the entirety of the contents of my backpack during a fairly intense canter: tampons, glasses, my hotel room key, the works. Nothing makes you feel less at one with nature than seeing your lost feminine hygiene products scattered over the wilderness.
The list goes on.
Originally we had planned to go travelling for a year starting in March 2017 and we even went as far as booking the flights.
The following week the UK voted to leave the EU and the pound fell to its lowest in over 30 years.
Fab.
Then I found out the company I worked for was being bought and I didn't feel my job was exactly secure anymore.
Not long after this blow, we decided to just up sticks and leave ASAP before anything else went wrong.
And now here we are! We've both quit our jobs and are ready for whatever travelling decides to throw at us.
We hope you enjoy reading our blogs and watching our vlogs; if not, feel free to voice your hate at fukyouvlogpackers@gmail.com.
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