When you travel, it is so important to go with the right mindset. Without the right mindset, you can really struggle and question why you are even travelling. And yet again, this lesson is one that I am reminded of on my current trip. May 2022 is the mental health awareness month and in this… Continue Reading…
To help us to get through these challenging times, instead of publishing content about destinations, I thought it would be more useful to bring you helpful ideas and content about self care. Here are our Girl about the Globe remedies for self care, inspiration and empowering projects. 1. Free Self-Love Kit To help us in… Continue Reading…
๏ปฟ Reverse Culture Shock Thatโs it, youโre home. Your trip is well and truly over and youโre left wondering if it ever really happened. Youโve survived those bouts of homesickness and have been counting down the days to see your friends and family, excited at being reunited. But now youโre back, and the home warming… Continue Reading…
As I gazed around at the pastel coloured buildings in the early hours of the morning, I wondered if everything was just a mirage. Was I really here, in Russia? A country that had had one of the hardest visa forms I had ever completed. Rewind 20 hours and I was barely unsure if I… Continue Reading…
As I write this itโs a Saturday night and Iโm back in England, putting on platform boots and black eyeliner about to go to a 70โs birthday party. This time last week I was drinking horseradish vodka in the Russian city of Saint Petersburg, the week before I was on an evening walking tour in… Continue Reading…
Itโs mid-February and after announcing my next trip back in January, I find myself getting ready to fly back to England after only completing part of my trip. Sometimes life has other plans for us and you have to just give in and surrender to a change in course. After not being able to get… Continue Reading…
* This post contains some graphic content. Little Corn Island My instinct told me not to go but wanting to visit an old friend (or more of an old holiday romance), I chose to ignore my gut feeling and found myself paying for the flight from Managua to Big Corn Island. The Corn Islands are… Continue Reading…
There are some places you arrive at and immediately think โwhy did I come here?โ Not because the place is dangerous but because it really wasnโt what you expected. Leaving Lake Ometepe, I travelled onwards to Masaya. After flicking through an outdated Nicaraguan guide book in the hostel in Liberia, I had landed on the… Continue Reading…
I was in Liberia, Costa Rica, backpacking my way through the country when I knew I shouldnโt have stopped. I was in my stride with both backpacks loaded tightly onto my body when a man approached me. It was daylight. There was a crowd of people at the bus station just ahead. I still had… Continue Reading…
โCome, come,โ shouted a scrawny man holding a thick piece of rope high for me to climb under at the entrance of what appeared to be a bus station. I picked up my pace knowing that my bus to La Fortuna was soon to depart. He mumbled something in Spanish, which I thought meant,… Continue Reading…
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