Wandering Secrets

Are there any countries you said you would never visit? Did you want to go somewhere but got scared off by something or someone? Is it dangerous to travel? Is it safe to travel? What are the dangers? Are holidays safer than a backpack adventure…   Close your eyes and imagine China. Remember everything you’ve […]

There’s this noticeable, strange and irrational fear for the police in France. Drivers getting nervous when they see a blue car, people twiking, behaving just a little bit out of normal when they come across the police. I haven’t seen this behaviour in any other country so far, and I can’t explain it to my […]

When I was a little girl I used to dream about spending the night  in a supermarket. I used to imagine ways of hiding before closing time, and ways of getting out unseen at opening time. Then, of course, my favourite part was to picture me wandering around the supermarket and trying all kinds of […]

We, the both of us together, started travelling in 2011. Leaving France, our home, our jobs for a better place. The question was: where to? How do you choose a country to live in? How can you choose when you don’t know what the place looks like? We- I speak for ourselves- can’t. We can’t […]

Howdy my friends! Today I welcome you into my ridiculous habit of backpacker: sleeping. Before I started travelling I would struggle to fall asleep. Anxiety, nightmares or simply insomnia, I’ve spent years sleeping 5 hours a night, waking up tired and feeling worse than the day before. BUT Ever since we’ve left France, since we’ve […]

I came across this article on The Guardian ‘s website and decided to post it here before I even finished reading it. For all those -like me- who want to go out and help, who are moved by orphan children, by people who need any kind of help, you need to take some things into consideration […]

Two years after having written this and a minute after re reading that post, I realize that today is Sunday, that I am again looking for a new job and that I feel the same way I felt when I wrote that first note. I feel the same, I’m in the same place feeling the same […]

    One of the perks of being a backpacker is that our trips are budgeted. Money does not fall from the sky and there is no way that working a year in China gives us enough to do this trip without limits. So we are used to budgeting, which means we are also used […]