Mindful Travel

Reflective moments which make you think about what you can take from the world, as well as what you can give to it.

10 peaceful escapes in Krabi, Thailand

September 5, 2020

Asia, Izzy's Travel Tips, Mindful Travel, Thailand

Sweeping, white beaches. Lush, lively rainforests. Crystal clear waters, peppered with limestone cliffs and unspoiled islands just calling out to be explored... It's little wonder that Krabi is one of the mos...

10 must-have eco-friendly toiletries that belong in your suitcase

blethersfromafar

August 26, 2020

Izzy's Travel Tips, Mindful Travel

It’s a sad truth that as much as we might like to travel the world, the footprints that we leave behind are not always the good kind. My last post looked at the effects that we, as travellers, can have on the ...

10 easy tips to help you travel greener

blethersfromafar

August 22, 2020

Features, Izzy's Travel Tips, Mindful Travel

It’s a fact; the concepts of Travel and The Environment have not always had the smoothest of relationships. If they were to be cast as characters in a film, the plot would probably fall along the lines of Gone...

What the pandemic has taught me about my feelings towards travel

blethersfromafar

August 10, 2020

Features, Mindful Travel, The Lifestyle, The Stories, Wellbeing

In 2020, the world as we knew it came crashing down. It started with flames. Wildfires swept across Australia. The rest of the world watched helplessly, horrified by the satellite images which began ...

Smile, you’re at Auschwitz! The troubling reality of visiting a concentration camp in the modern age

blethersfromafar

June 12, 2019

Europe, Features, Izzy's Travel Tips, Mindful Travel, Poland, The Stories

The frost-laced winds swirled in slow, solemn waltzes. My gaze lay straight ahead. I stared, shivering, trying to contemplate the length of the tracks ahead; of where they began, where they led, where they en...

The overnight train from Chiang Mai to Bangkok

blethersfromafar

October 6, 2018

Asia, backpacking, Features, Mindful Travel, Thailand, the great outdoors, The Stories

It was 4am. I was woken by a crack, piercing and metallic. My eyes were slow to adjust to the darkness. Fatigue had left me disorientated, and for a moment, I struggled to remember where I was. Lightening so...

The Night we ended up at a Ping Pong Show: An Honest Insight into Bangkok’s Sex Industry

blethersfromafar

April 22, 2015

Asia, backpacking, Features, life as a writer, Mindful Travel, Thailand, The Stories

With a sharp snap, the tuk-tuk turned left, taking us away from the neon lights of Patpong and into the depths of an unlit alley. We had stopped outside a building which, on first glance, gave little away. Y...

That time we found Paradise: Bedarra Island

blethersfromafar

January 16, 2015

Australia, backpacking, Mindful Travel, road trips, the great outdoors

In 2011, a massive storm formed in the Pacific Ocean. Yasi, as it became known, was a force 5 cyclone, and caused immeasurable damage to everything in its path - from Papua New Guinea and the Solomon islands t...