Sometimes when life is beating you down, the best thing you can possibly do is get away.
What is travel therapy?
‘Travel therapy’ simply means using travel as a way to help alleviate a problem or situation in your life. For example: Are you just getting over a break up? Travel… out of sight out, of [...]
Category Archives: Budget travel
Travel Therapy
Re-energize with a Mini Break
In the movie Bridget Jones Diary, Bridget takes a mini break and goes ‘on holiday.’ I remember that sounding so quaint and refreshing at the time and thinking, ‘I want to take a mini break and go on holiday’. And so I have, many times. I can now attest to the effects that a [...]
Top Ten Reasons Why You Should Try House Sitting
House sitting and home exchanges are becoming more and more popular these days and for good reason. They are a cheap way to explore a new destination, you have the creature comforts of a home, and you get to live someone else’s life for a while. What’s not to love? Here are ten reasons to [...]
Travel the World Rent Free
I get such a thrill when I check my e-mail first thing in the morning and there is a message like this sitting in my in box:
‘House sitter needed for 1 month in Tuscany’.
As I click further I see a picture of a gorgeous cottage in the hills of Tuscany. The owner writes, ‘All I [...]
16 Unique Gifts for the Traveler at Heart
Do you know someone that loves to travel? Or is planning a trip somewhere fabulous soon? Perhaps you are stumped for ideas on what to get that die hard traveler that seems to have all the gear they need.
It can be challenging giving travel gifts because you want to give something lightweight, easy [...]
How to Travel without Leaving your Hometown
Ah travel… when I hear the word I immediately envision myself speeding down California’s Highway 1 in a red convertible with the radio blaring, screaming along to Tom Petty’s ‘Free Falling’ or zooming down the zip line in Costa Rica. As much as I’d love to travel full time to exotic places, it’s not always possible, especially in [...]