Monthly Archives: August 2007

Cheap Eats in London

If you’re looking for tasty, nutritious food in London but don’t want to break out the credit card, here’s where you can eat…
1) Edgware road – there are some fantastic, cheap & tasty Lebanese restaurants in this area which do big plates of authentic Lebanese food for under £10.
2) Japanese Canteen – there are 8 [...]

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Are You One Of Us?

The BBC reports today that a record number of people left the UK last year for foreign climes. It also lists the following most popular destinations for British citizens…
Top 10 Emigration Countries – 2004 & 2005
Australia – 71,000
Spain – 58,000
France – 42,000
New Zealand – 30,000
USA – 25,000
Canada – 17,000
Netherlands – 8,000
UAE – 7,000
Germany – 6,000
South [...]

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Protecting Your LIP Dreams From Saboteurs

Choosing to live your dream lifestyle…or at least go searching for it like we did has been called brave, foolish, brilliant, inspiring and fantastic by various people who know what we’re doing.
One of the biggest challenges we faced was the negativity & fears of those closest to us. People often don’t realise how easily a [...]

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Packing List Resources

We took a fairly large hard suitcase and a 65 litre rucksack with us on our last journey, plus our 2 laptop rucksacks as hand luggage. It was way too much.
For this next trip, we’re going to cut our luggage in half and take just 1 (smaller) suitcase between us along with our hand luggage. [...]

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Backpackers vs Flashpackers vs LIPs

Unlike backpackers, it is not the sole mission of Flashpackers nor LIPs to get the absolute lowest price for everything. I have been all 3 at some point – a backpacker (whilst travelling round Europe by train after finishing high school), a flashpacker (whilst travelling round New Zealand & Australia on sabbatical from my consulting [...]

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