Despite their best efforts, festivals are not the most eco-friendly of events. There’s a large number of people congregating in a closed-off area of farmland for a few days. Besides all of the energy required to power the festival’s stages and other attractions, there are tens, if not hundreds of thousands of people who have made the festival their ‘home’ for […]
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When you’re looking for inspiration or positivity, TED/TEDx Talks are great places to start. If you search for inspirational travel videos on YouTube, you’ll likely be greeted by tens of thousands of results, featuring smiling young faces against a variety of incredible backdrops. You’ll probably find stunning 4k drone footage of awe-inspiring landscapes or remote islands. Perhaps a few montages […]
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In 2016, we went to our first festival outside of the UK (the first of many more to come) and, we’ve finally had a chance to go through the hundreds of photos we took during the week. Boom Festival is a biennial psychedelic music and arts festival in Portugal. It usually takes place during the full moon at the end […]
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In exactly 4 months, we are leaving the UK with a one-way ticket and will be travelling long-term until our money runs out. Well, that’s the plan anyway. It may seem like a long way off but time is moving swiftly, especially as we’ve made a lot of progress towards sorting our lives out. When we launched Life Begins With […]
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We regularly go camping or to festivals where we have no access to electricity for days at a time. Yet, thanks to portable chargers, our phones are cameras are always fully charged – no matter where we are or what we’re doing. If you’re going into nature to escape from technology for a while, then that’s fine but it makes […]
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So, festival season in the UK is well and truly upon us and it’s time to have that last minute packing panic! It’s common to worry about losing your valuables to theives, the mud or through drunken antics. Fortunately, theft is very rare at festivals; out of the tens of thousands of people who attend, only a handful will fall […]
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The Liebster Award is the second blogging award given to us by another blogger! Yet again, we’re absolutely delighted that people are enjoying the content here on Life Begins With Travel and we’re so excited to accept this double nomination! If you’ve been following this blog, you’ll know that I’ve spent most of the past month being really, really ill. You’ll […]
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Regular readers, friends and subscribers are probably wondering what’s been going on as it’s been absolutely silent on Life Begins With Travel for over two weeks now. It was not meant to be this way. A lot has happened but our travel plans have not changed. Today, May 25th 2017 is exactly 5 months (153 days) until we leave the […]
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This is an unfortunate story from one of my many solo-stays in a hotel room in a rural British town. I often travel-solo for work and 99.9% of the time I never have any trouble, except for this one occasion. I was harassed by a creepy stranger when staying alone in a small hotel. This incident could happen anywhere, therefore […]
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On Saturday 22nd April, I was tagged in a notification on Facebook – another blogger has recognised this blog and given us a Blogger Recognition Award. Needless to say, we’re absolutely delighted. First thing’s first… thank you to our nominators Jimmy and Tina from Durham’s Love Life Travel Blog. We seriously couldn’t be happier to have received recognition from a […]
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