Archive for How to travel

Rosie Swale-Pope chose a slightly different way to travel around the world – by running!

by: Maria February 4, 2010

Last week, we wrote about Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman, who chose to travel around the world on their motorbikes. We’ve watched the DVDs from their trip several times and it seems like an amazing adventure with some amazing challenges as well
Well, now our friend Gabi (who by the way is an avid traveler [...]

Paulo Coelho and his advice on how to travel

by: Magnus February 1, 2010

The other day we wrote about why travel is good for you and your brain based on scientific studies. Today though, I want to tell you about one of my favorite authors and his view on how to travel. This is rather different from the scientific approach though and much more about personal opinions.
The [...]

“Long Way Round” a real travel adventure with Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman

by: Magnus January 25, 2010

The other day we decided to watch “Long Way Round” with Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman again. For those of you who aren’t familiar with it, this is a TV documentary of Ewan’s and Charley’s journey from London to New York on motorbikes. As the title suggests, they took the long way by setting off [...]

Fear of flying prevented me from going out into the world for years, what’s your excuse?

by: Maria January 8, 2010

As I’m just on my way to the airport to fly to London, I started thinking about another time when we went there, the whole family. This special occasion, we were actually flying too, something then totally new to us. We had been traveling a lot as a family even before this, but always by [...]

How to travel – creating your own travel theme

by: Maria November 13, 2009

We’re having a family here visiting at the moment, from Romania. Actually, they are Swedish but they live in here mostly during the summers and in Romania the other half of the year, in Transylvania more precisely (yes, the land of Dracula).

We wondered how they ended up in Romania and it turned out the parents [...]

Is it possible to travel around the world in a safe way?

by: Magnus November 8, 2009

While I was considering weather it is possible to travel around the world in a safe way somebody handled me this article about a man planning to drive around the world. Heading out from New York he will be spending a year driving down South America, up through Africa, east out of Europe and onwards [...]

What’s the question that’ll take you one step further towards your dream journey?

by: Maria October 28, 2009

Questions are powerful tools to use for taking you forward in life. If you ask the right questions!

Notice the feeling when you ask yourself a question that starts with something like:
- “Why did I do XXX?” or
- “Why is everybody ZZZ”? or even
- “Why don’t I ever learn to…?”
These, more analyzing questions, don’t have a [...]

What’s stopping you from doing that dream trip of a life time?

by: Maria October 15, 2009

What are you afraid of could happen if you’d go on that dream trip of yours? Or what would happen when you get back? Or perhaps during the trip? Or maybe even before? Will you catch a disease? Go bankrupted? Loose your friends? Or maybe your kids will fall behind in school?
One fear that ruled [...]

Which way to travel suites you the best – what do you want to DO on your trip?

by: Maria October 11, 2009

A couple of years ago, the Lord Of The Rings interest was huge in our family. So huge we even created part of our RTW trip around it. We went to New Zealand where the films were made, bought a LOTR guide book, rented a campervan and traveled around visiting places and meeting with people [...]

Around the world on foot during 7 years

by: Magnus October 8, 2009

We mentioned in an earlier post a lady who walked around the world for 7 years. It was just something we bumped into when doing a search on the web. We thought it was an interesting example of how it’s possible to travel the worldstrong>Well the idea was simple enough but actually doing it was [...]