Tips on mixing work with travel vagabonding

My trip during Canadian winter in 2010 was possibly the first time I’ve mixed work with travel vagabonding.  After a several month long contract ended, I decided that I’ve had enough of Brisbane (for the summer anyway), didn’t feel like heading to Toowoomba (where I grew up)… and decided to buy a return ticket to Vancouver.  This was also the first time I went overseas by myself.

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Q&A from Emerging Digital Marketer (looking to move from Brisbane to London for career development)

Early October this year, I received an email from an emerging digital marketer currently based in Brisbane and researching their options to develop their career overseas, in particular the UK. They will remain anonymous 😉 and here’s a slightly reworded of my email exchange with this individual…

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Tips on renting and sharehousing in London

I’ve been renting and sharehousing (or flatsharing) since I was 18 when I had to move out of Toowoomba and then to Brisbane for university.  I’ve had some fairly interesting experience in Brissie – ranging from flatsharing with three guys (2 French, 1 Portugese) to four people (that was in such a state of flux because of the traveller ratio that I would get maybe one new flatmate every 1-2 months) to family friends and then colleagues.  But, this was Brisbane.  London is kind of a different ballgame and people have different experiences.

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Marrakech travel tips

Marrakech is an interesting but nonetheless quiet a difficult city to travel.   Why Marrakech and Morocco? I wanted to go somewhere fairly left-of-centre and to also travel somewhere in Africa and felt that Marrakech would be a good introduction in terms of getting to know this continent. Morocco is not the first country that I have been to when Islam is the predominant religion but my last country was ages ago.

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October and November Update – Nice, Monaco, Marrakech, Primrose Hill, St John’s Wood…

It has been a long while since my last post (about my six month anniversary with London).  I’m now closely approaching nine months and can’t believe that it has only been this year when I decided to do a massive change in my life and move to the UK.

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