by Liz Deacle | Budget travel, world travel
What is Couchsurfing? How does it work? Is it free? Is it safe? Can I do it with my family?
These are the most common questions I hear when I tell people I couch surfed around the world with my kids for a year.
Rather than give you a boring old review like every other blog post you can find online, I thought I’d simply answer every question I can think of about Couchsurfing in 2021.
If you can listen while you read then why not check out our couchsurfing podcast where my teenage son and I talk about Couchsurfing around the world!
That way you get the truth.
And yes.
My Mother did actually say she thought we’d all be murdered in our beds. Your mum will do too.
More on safety with Couchsurfing later.
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by Liz Deacle | Asia Travel, Budget travel, India
There are many things I discovered while travelling in India, things that no guidebook or India travel blog could ever have told me about.
One of those things being the hell that is the overnight sleeper bus.
I’m sorry India.
I love your country with all my heart, (so much so that I made a podcast about India with my son putting the world to rights about your bad press) – I’ve even named you as one of my top underrated world destinations, but your sleeper buses?
Well.
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by Liz Deacle | Asia Travel, Budget travel, India
Iloved backpacking in India. I sit and think about all of the challenges we faced traveling around India as a family for six weeks and I smile a satisfied smile. If you can go backpacking in India you can do anything in the whole wide world. (more…)
by Liz Deacle | Budget travel, world travel
This week marks four months since our family of four left New Zealand to travel around the world. The question that always arises when we tell people about our trip is, “How much does it cost to travel the world?”. (more…)
by Liz Deacle | Asia Travel, Budget travel, India
You are in Alleppey in Kerala. You are no doubt thinking of booking a houseboat or some other mode of transport to see the Kerela backwaters, but you want your experience to be unique.
You don’t want to be ripped off.
You don’t want to feel like just another tourist. (more…)
by Liz Deacle | Asia Travel, Budget travel, Sri Lanka, world travel
Couchsurfing. What is it? Is it just for backpacking teenagers? Is it safe? And, most importantly, can you go Couchsurfing with kids?
Or, are you all going to end up in some weirdo’s basement, chained to the walls with only a doll in a clown suit for company
Couchsurfing is not for everyone. But it should be.
If you are travelling the world as we are and want to experience some local culture, then there is no better way to do it than to couchsurf. (more…)
