Backpacking | Budget Travel | Living Abroad
In this post, we’re going to look at the worst airports in the US according to passenger ratings. While many American airports have excellent facilities and have improved considerably in recent years, others have started to feel dated. International travellers meanwhile continue to be frustrated by long waits and at times unfriendly welcomes at passport […]
As the days shorten and temperature drops as the end of the year approaches in the Northern Hemisphere, Australia is just gearing up for the summer months. This outdoors loving nation is blessed with warm weather and thousands of miles of sun-baked coastlines and summer in Australia is the most popular period for anyone heading […]
Spain is home to a large number of popular tourist resorts with its coastline dotted with great beach destinations. While some are well known and are clearly geared to international visitors looking for fun, sun and sea on a budget, there are also plenty of more secret gems which aren’t always on the radar of […]
As the world’s largest country, Russia is full of relatively little known natural wonders that receive few international visitors. The difficulty of reaching them puts some travellers off but if you fancy a real adventure for your next trip, this post on the most beautiful places in Russia may provide a bit of inspiration. 5 […]
Europe is cautiously starting to open up to travel again with summer 2021 certainly promising to be busier than summer 2020. That may even mean we’ll start seeing busy airports once more as people jet off for summer breaks. In this post, we’re going to look at the biggest and busiest airports in Europe. The […]
In this post we’re going to look at the busiest air routes in the world, or at least what they were before the pandemic disrupted domestic and international travel. We’ll look at the busiest domestic and international connections by annual passenger numbers, as well as the busiest air routes in every continent. The figures come […]
The Middle East today is home to some of the world’s most modern and fastest growing cities with new skyscrapers constantly shooting upwards in the likes of Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Doha. However the region is also blessed with some amazing historical sites and in this post we’re going to look at a few of […]
Covering a huge chunk of Southern Spain, in this post we’re going to run through five of the best places to visit in Andalusia. While the Costa del Sol near Malaga draws in millions of holidaymakers in Europe each summer, few manage to get out and truly explore one of Spain’s most beautiful regions, one […]
In this post we will look at the five most visited countries in North America according to official UN figures for global tourism. By North America, we mean USA, Canada and Mexico plus the nations of Central America and the Caribbean. The figures quoted are for the calendar year of 2018 and rounded up or […]
Africa accounts for 20% of the world’s land area and is home to 1.3 billion people but in terms of tourism, only relatively few countries attract large numbers of visitors each year. In this post we will look at the five most visited countries in Africa according to official UN figures for global tourism. The […]
