This came up on Instagram on Monday – the Louvre closed its doors in June under the pressure of “unmanageable crowds”. Oh, it’s not just the crowds, it’s also chronic overstaffing and structural problems but the thousands upon thousands of people seem to have been the final straw that broke the camel’s back. Near From … More Do you really want to go there or have you been told that you have to?
The main purpose of travel influencers isn’t to show off their fabulous holidays and adventures but to showcase destinations and experiences to people who might not otherwise know about them and share their own knowledge and experience to help people with their own travels. To that end, a group trip run -or at least figureheaded … More Is it worth going on your favourite influencer’s group trip?
The 5-9 is the bit of our lives that’s not our 9-5 job, what we do between 5pm when we finish work and 9am when we start again the next day. Despite the fact that I manage to maintain a travel and adventure blog with something new twice a week, I do have a 9-5 … More How I use my 5-9: May 2025 edition
It’s my blog’s tenth birthday this week. Ok, it’s a bit hard to pin down a firm date for when it started, since it went through at least two names & addresses (Limestone & Lava and Footprints in the Lava are the two I particularly remember) and probably half a dozen purposes before settling down … More Happy 10th birthday to I Am A Polar Bear!