Got Busy Living

06/04/2019

🇭🇰 Having far too much fun to be writing/posting these in real-time... a few words and photos from our week in Hong Kong, almost a month ago! ✈️

The start of my next adventure was to be an ‘extended layover’ in the sprawling metropolis of Hong Kong. Here, we would spend a week before getting our next flight to India. I wasn’t too sure what …

04/10/2018

Second leg of our Italian roadtrip featuring the sketchiest of drives to the Amalfi coast from Abruzzo; these two months have flown by since returning!

A tentative voice says “Ben?” as Hannah and I sit down on the Alilaguna boat that will take us from Venetian island to Venetian island. I turn around to find James Haggarty, an old school friend, w…

05/08/2018

🚐💨The blog post for our first leg of the lap of Italy is live! 🇮🇹
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(Been trying to write in a more easily-digestible way so appreciate any feedback/shares etc 🤙🏽)

This post is the first of a three-part blog documenting mine and Hannah’s roadtrip around Italy in my newly converted British Gas/guerrilla camper van. To receive email updates of our next post, en…

02/08/2018

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Switzerland on the right
Italy on the left
Our little home on wheels in the middle

Blogpost from our first week on the road coming 🔜

18/02/2018

From Russia with love

01/08/2017

Dublin this weekend; anyone know of good pubs, bars and burger joints?

12/06/2017

I doubt the England fans who travelled up to Scotland this weekend racked up as many calamities as we did on our trip to the Euros last year...

Read about our disaster-ridden trip down to Marseille below:

I’ve just bought all the tickets I can for the Euro’s mate, I’ve got all the England group games and a couple of the knockouts. Want one? was probably the best text I got in the w…

29/04/2017

Baby steps but another published travel-related article in a local paper. Read it in full here: https://gotbusylivingblog.wordpress.com/2017/03/31/rio-de-janeiro-brazil-chapter-ii/

19/04/2017

The last of the posts from this trip: Iceland. Follow the link/Nissan Note below to see the most uninspiring photo of the Northern Lights you'll ever see (and countless waterfalls, geysers and general tectonic madness).

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The Vikings, with the Irish slaves they had kidnapped in tow, chose Iceland as a settlement because of it’s dense woodland for building, suitability for farming and plentiful iron to create w…

13/04/2017

Clouds put riddance to our plans to watch the sunset from behind Seljalandsfoss but it was impressive anyway!

25/03/2017

Just over 6 months; 16 countries - 14 of them new to me, 6 flights, 35 boats, pushing 1,500 hours on buses and a few hitchhikes. The Americas.

24/03/2017

Back to where this trip all began, Canada (Follow link for video). Excited for Iceland tomorrow - anyone got any recommendations for Reykjavik city?

On every trip, there is a time when the dream suddenly becomes reality. On this one, the start of a huge roadtrip from Vancouver to Buenos Aires, it didn’t kick in for a while. Despite buying…

02/03/2017

I've had a blinding two weeks with my hermanos locos in Rio de Janeiro and Ilha Grande, filled with hiking to some incredible views. We all the way up.

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02/03/2017

Thinking of packing in the day job and roaming around the world? Living in a van offers you an unprecedented level of freedom to travel, cook and sleep wherever you want.

Check out my 'beginners guide' to guerrilla-camping below for a head start and share with a friend who you'd do it with.

We hadn’t really researched how to live in a van successfully; we arrived in Canada with a daydream…

25/02/2017

A shedload of photos and videos from my time volunteering at Karumbé turtle rescue and conservation project in northernmost Uruguay. Thanks to the guys at Karumbe for having me and teaching me more Spanish than I could ever have imagined I'd learn in a relatively short time!

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I started my newfound desire to speak Spanish with DuoLingo, and was confused at how much time the app dedicated to teaching users the word “tortugas”- specifically “La tortugas b…

15/02/2017

Released this green turtle back into the wild today after giving it the 'all clear' from ingested plastic. It was pretty nervous after not seeing waves for two weeks.

09/02/2017

Video from my time in Chile whilst the world spins itself into turmoil. Blog as always is www.gotbusylivingblog.wordpress.com and Chile will be the most recent one. Give it a subscription at the bottom!

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03/02/2017

The 'directors cut' of GoPro photos from Chile so far. So much variety in this country!

31/01/2017

I really hope that everyone reading this visits Peru at least once in their life if they can, it is far too good. After last year, I didn't plan on staying for long during this trip, but the temptation was too much and I ended up getting off the bus and seeing so many beautiful places. Read about it here: https://gotbusylivingblog.wordpress.com/2017/01/31/peru/

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13/01/2017

Colombia was a fun place to see in the New Year and Ecuador has been so full of activities I don't know where to start. Video below; photos and words here: https://gotbusylivingblog.wordpress.com/2017/01/13/ecuador/

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08/01/2017

Words from Colombia. Give it a read/share/subscribe. https://gotbusylivingblog.wordpress.com/2017/01/08/colombia/

‘That skinny bit between North and South America.’ Everyone refers to Colombia as a ‘dodgy’ place – “Have…

02/01/2017

Video, photos and accompanying blog from our 12 days in Panama over the festive period has just gone live. Check them out at https://gotbusylivingblog.wordpress.com/2017/01/02/twelve-days-of-a-panamanian-christmas/

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26/12/2016

Photos from our (very different from usual) Christmas in Panama.

21/12/2016

NEW POST: Feast your eyes on photos, videos and general Costa Rican goodness from Country #37.

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Even on such a strapped budget, I’d bet my bottom dollar that any interaction involving…

20/12/2016

Three British guys, two Californians, one Costa Rican: all full of testosterone. It was inevitable that we'd end up upside-down and wet!

14/12/2016

Throwback to our Californian video, big up everyone who made this state one of our favourites.

https://gotbusylivingblog.wordpress.com/2016/10/07/california-chronologically/

And it’s only going to get hotter as we move away from the coast… Having crossed the border from Oregon amongst the thousands of acres of vineyards, our first Californian experience was…

13/12/2016

The country that has surprised me the most on this trip so far has been Guatemala. Read about my time here below:

https://gotbusylivingblog.wordpress.com/2016/12/02/guatemala/

Canada is known for having 60% of the worlds lakes within it’s boundaries; but Guatemala’s (despite only having 3 of decent size) were just as beautiful, if not more. Caye Caulker, Cancun and Playa…