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Our worst dorm mate ever? A 74 year old Granny. I’m serious.

People are annoying. Fact. I know because I am one, I can be annoyed and no doubt be annoying too. For a fun experiment try adding lots of people to a small room with too many beds, and watch as some who might normally be mildly annoying become someone you want to bitch slap across the face. We have had our share of annoying, frustrating and plain disgusting dorm mates and have probably been less than decent dorm mates ourselves [...]

Why you need a budget

  Image by epSos What I am about to say is not going to send you into an excited frenzy. I apologise now. I know that travel is fun and exciting and wildly  exhilarating. But like everything it has a bland and untasty side. You know the one, it is like that ever growing stack of papers in the corner of your desk that you need to attend to but really don’t want to, and it is called a budget. Budgets [...]