Posts Tagged ‘Facebook’

“You have a new message from Facebook”. Facebook has become a de facto tool of travellers everywhere. It is often easier to take on a new city with the knowledge that you already know someone there, you have a picture and past history,

The gadget revolution has reached the lowly backpacker; let’s take a look in the rucksack of our global traveller.

Sometimes when you go backpacking you want to start off travelling with someone else. It makes sense for safety and intermittent loneliness reasons. It’s good to have someone to talk to and help figure out travel problems with. But fi

The world is a really tiny place, and internet makes it even smaller. When you are travelling, it may help you out to find information about your next destination or buy your plane ticket; but nowadays the net has evolved and offers you som

I was struck by this comment from a reader about a recent blog concerning the tour company Contiki starting in South-East Asia: “In the words of the great T.V show… Goodbye, Farewell and Amen.  I am so glad i have already been

Mobile phone technology and portability, global roaming connectivity and pricing over the last few years has removed the issue of having to find a wifi hotspot or internet café to log in to a web-based platform to stay in touch, update