Accommodation

. . . and so we fled.

VLOG_016 is about a place that I really love: the Kinmen islands of Taiwan. They sit right of the coast of Xiamen — of mainland China — and have an incredibly unique recent history which led to them developing like no other place on earth.

Explaining the family travel strategy.

Want something to do? Tough shit.

The tribulations of family travels present the same situation as last summer.

I kind of resist getting on the new trends in travel. I have my old ways, they work, and I seldom have any real need to change them. But once in a while something comes up that rattles everything. Short-term apartment rental sites, like Air B&B, or those like Booking.com which offer short-term apartment rentals [...]

The view from where I’m staying in Sihanoukville, Cambodia.

This view from my window was earned the hard way.

Hostels without receptionists? Without security? Without anyone but some lady who comes in once in a while to scrub the floors and change the sheets? Tristan Hicks discovers that flashpacking has been taken to an entirely new level.