Tag Archives: Well Being

Discovering FREE Guided Meditation Courses Around the World

Free Guided Meditation Courses Around the World

  It was during a trip to New Zealand back in 2008 that I first heard about the free guided meditation courses of Vipassana. Taking place in dedicated centres around the world, these 10 day retreats are conducted in silence and offer a step-by-step chance to learn a very specific sort of meditation technique. The […]

DEET-FREE Mosquito Repellent You Can Make Cheaply at Home

DEET-Free Mosquito Repellent You Can Make Cheaply at Home

  As something of a sun worshipper, I always seem to be gravitating to warmer destinations as part of my globetrotting adventures. There’s only one problem with places that enjoy hotter climates however – the mosquitoes enjoy them too! Not only that, but these pesky little nibblers also enjoy ME far too much as well. […]

10 Important Things to Look For When Buying Travel Insurance

10 Important Things to Look For When Buying Travel Insurance

  If you’re anything like me, then all the admin associated with travel can both really bore you and really stress you out! However, after years of preparing for trips, I’ve gradually become more equipped to deal with this challenge, probably because I’ve also become more practiced and therefore more knowledgeable. Never is this more […]

Top 10 Budget Travel Items for the Health Conscious

Health Conscious

  As part of my series on how you can make your journeys round the world happier and healthier, I’m bringing you my list of the top 10 budget travel items for the health conscious. Make sure you’re fully prepared and able to have the best trip possible by including some of this great items on […]

Top 5 Places to Eat Vegan on the Sunshine Coast

Eat Vegan on the Sunshine Coast

  One of the best things I love about currently living on the Sunshine Coast is people’s attitude and awareness towards healthy, clean eating. In an area that boasts a great quality of life due to its climate and natural surrounds, it’s not surprising that many people here are also really conscious about what they […]

10 Tips for Vegetarian Travellers in Central America

Top 10 Tips for Vegetarian Travellers in Central America

  When I travel as a vegetarian to some of the more far-flung places of the world, some people always look at me aghast and question, “but what are you going to eat there?” In all likelihood, these are probably the people who also wonder how I survive in the Western world because, in reality, […]

Held at Gun Point: Is Colombia Safe to Travel?

How I Was Held at Gun Point Is Colombia Safe to Travel

  Suddenly everything was moving in slow motion. There were hands. Pairs of hands. Hands that were patting me down. Hands that were in my pockets. That were in my friend’s pockets. That were round his phone. And his wallet. That were across his mouth. Hands that were holding a gun. That were pointing the […]

Top 5 Tips for Successful Hitchhiking

Successful Hitchhiking

  First of all, let’s agree that hitchhiking is a risky and unpredictable business. I’m not in anyway vouching for its safety and reliability. Yet, that’s probably 2 of the very reasons why it’s been such a great component of my wandering history here at Big World Small Pockets. When you set out to get somewhere […]

Everything in Australia is Trying to Kill You

Everything in Australia is Trying to Kill You

  It is a truth universally acknowledged, that every single animal in Australia in possession of a good self-defence mechanism must want to end your life. In other words, everything in Australia is trying to kill you! From the spiders to the sharks, the snakes to the stingers, the crocs to the cassowaries, almost any living creature […]