by Mrs McNomad | Apr 6, 2015 | Budget Travel
On April 7, 2014, we set off to see if it would be possible to travel around the world on a pension. And not just to go, but to have all the fun we wanted to have along the way. One year to the goal and I am now able to say we did it. In the past year we attended...
by Mrs McNomad | Feb 5, 2015 | Thailand
Did you ever find yourself swept up into a stranger’s wedding party? It happened to us this morning in Bangkok. I cracked open the bedroom door at our B&B to investigate a commotion outside. Just outside the door was a roomful of elegantly dressed people...
by Mrs McNomad | Jan 30, 2015 | Thailand
If you go traveling for a year, sooner or later you will need to get a haircut in a foreign land. We scour the local language dictionary but words to convey hair styling preferences never seem to make the cut. Nowhere was this more evident than in England. We...
by Mrs McNomad | Jan 23, 2015 | Australia
I’ve neglected writing much on the Blog lately but I had a good reason. We took a detour to go time-traveling instead. Oh, it’s nothing slick like a Hoverboard ride in Back To The Future. This part of the trip has been more like a quiet, reflective stroll through a...
by Mrs McNomad | Jan 12, 2015 | Budget Travel
It is unbelievable but absolutely true. Peter and I flew in First Class from Paris to Australia on the world’s top airlines and paid just $582.00. Those same tickets would cost $14,687.00 if purchased outright. That is a savings of $14,105. And this wasn’t...