Travel Stories

Travel Stories

Real Life Travel Stories and Travellers Interviews with Safety Advice

Travel Stories

Inspiration to travel is sometimes all we need to book our next adventure. We have collected a selection of amazing travel stories, highlighting some of the wonderful experiences out there in the world and some of the obstacles you might face along the way.


If you have just returned from your travels or would like to share a travel story please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

“The best education I have ever received was through travel.”

  • Morocco airport

    Travelling Morocco

    I travelled to Morocco with a friend from college, Rachel, for two weeks. We arranged it through a company and it was made up of around 14 people of all ages, from the UK and Australia.

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  • Vietnam boats cooking

    Streetwise in Vietnam

    At the age of 32 I kinda thought I was really streetwise and at ‘one’ with surroundings! I have lived in various cities around the world and have learnt how to conduct myself as a adult – or so I thought!

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  • More busy streets in Vietnam

    Accident in Vietnam

    The Financial Services Ombudsman has found Boots’ travel insurance, provider, AIG/Chartis, guilty of unreasonably using small print to avoid a claim and ordered them to pay in full.

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  • Thumbs up on road

    I was kidnapped

    More than three years have passed since this unfortunate event. Luckily, nothing tragic then happened to me. I was neither raped nor stabbed, sequestrated nor assaulted; I was only threatened.

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  • Terrifying Ordeal

    The trip to Nepal was something we’d been planning for nearly a year. Myself and three friends had booked a ten day trek around the Annapurnas in the Himalayas, followed by five weeks in India.

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