A Quick Update

quick update

This is gonna be really quick… or at least I’m gonna try to make it a quick one. 🙂 You might (or might not) have noticed the radio silence from us on the blog the last few days and there’s a reason behind that. We’ve been getting ourselves a little upgrade – not one that you … Continue Reading

4 Inspiring Creative Women!

inspiring creative women

Creative individuals fascinate me constantly! I’m always impressed by people who can create something out of nothing and I really appreciate the talents, skills and abilities possessed by said individuals. Below are some of said creative and inspiring women (outside of the women in my life) whose talents have stood out to me for some … Continue Reading

27 Tips To Grow Your Blog With Pinterest

tips grow your

And these tips and tricks come directly from the folks at Pinterest and so you can count on every single tip and trick here. This isn’t a guesstimation of how to best use Pinterest or even about me telling you how I use Pinterest, this is about the kind (and rather cool) folk at Pinterest … Continue Reading

We’ve written a book! Hand Luggage Only: Great Britain

We are so excited!!! After years of travelling, countless desserts guzzled and copious amounts of chocolate consumed we’ve finally taken the leap and worked with our amazing publishers to create our book, Hand Luggage Only: Great Britain!  It’s hard to put into words what this means to us, which is totally ironic really – especially … Continue Reading

Don’t Fall Into This Travel Blogging Trap!

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There’s something I’ve noticed on travel blogs lately and while, this is not the kind of post I would usually write, it’s been at the back of my mind for long enough that I just feel like I need to call it out. That thing is a programme/scheme called Travel Blog Success (I refuse to … Continue Reading

1 Million!

million

Today, we got an alert saying that Hand Luggage Only (yup, the very same one you’re reading this on right now), just hit the 1 million monthly page views milestone. 1 Million!!! WOW!!! 🎉 I can’t even fully process it – mostly because I can’t picture 1 million of one thing in the same place. … Continue Reading

10 Reasons I Love Blogging!

reasons love blogging

It’s been a while since I’ve written one of these kinda personal posts but for some inexplicable reason (or maybe it’s the chocolate high I have right now from eating far too many bars of snickers), at this very moment it just seems like quite an apt time to write this post so do bear with while … Continue Reading

10 Reasons Why You Need To Start A Travel Blog

reasons you need

There are literally hundreds of millions of blogs out there today and so you’d be easily forgiven for finding the prospect of starting a new blog rather daunting. That being said, there are so many reasons why you definitely should start a new blog. If you find yourself identifying with one of these reasons, then … Continue Reading

7 Tips To Grow And Manage Your Blog

tips grow manage

You can file this one under miscellaneous. 😉 If you don’t have a blog, you can probably skip this post. If you do have a blog, you will most likely find one (if not all) of these tips really useful! I started off the post wanting to tell you about one thing that I recently … Continue Reading

Welcome back

welcome back

You’ve probably noticed how different the website is looking now! Yup – it’s been relaunched and this time I promise to post regularly with lots of photos, travel stories, travel tips and advice and savvy ways to save money on your travels! There are a few new things you’ve probably notice now too… I’ll give … Continue Reading