Our Story
In 2012, we left the UK with a backpack stuffed just with clothes and a camera and moved to Taiwan. It was our first travel adventure together and from then on we knew we were destined for a life of travel.
We started our travel blog from our little apartment in Taiwan to keep our families updated on our lives — the mountain hikes, black sand beaches, scooter drives through the rice paddies, steaming bowls of rice and night market mishaps. Our blog has grown and is now trusted by thousands as their source for responsible travel guides.
Since Taiwan, we’ve adventured together in over 30 counties. We’ve lived out in the Costa Rican jungle, swum with whale sharks in Mexico, hiked the Portuguese coastline, safaried in South Africa, spent a weekend in the Amazon rainforest and explored countless cities together. Here’s to many more adventures!
Back when we started our first blog in 2012, we never dreamed that we would be travelling the world for over a decade.
Meet Charlie & Luke
Charlie Marchant
“Travel and stories are my two greatest loves. There’s nothing better than waking up to the sounds of the jungle or opening the door to a blanket of mountain peaks and having that first coffee of the day.
I discovered my love of travelling at university when I was invited on a government funded trip to China for 3 weeks. I learned some patchy Mandarin and found my way around Shanghai, Beijing and up the Great Wall.”
Luke Nicholson
“When I was just two years old, my backpacker parents took me to Thailand. I’ve had a sense of adventure ever since and have scuba dived in the Red Sea, stayed in a treehouse in Laos and paraglided in Colombia.
I especially love the natural world and try to see as much of it as possible. From swimming with whale sharks to witnessing thousands of monarch butterflies migrating, wildlife brings so much wonder to the world.”
Based in Brighton, UK
We like to travel over long periods of time but when we’re not travelling, our home base is in Brighton. Brighton is Luke’s hometown and it’s a liberal city with delicious vegetarian restaurants, independent coffee shops, close to great walking routes in the South Downs and is close to London airports (essential for travellers like us!)
Travel Blogger / Digital Nomad
Vegetarian Travel
We have been vegetarian for as long as we can remember and travelling didn’t change that. Vegetarian travel is part of our commitment to sustainable travel and looking after the environment. After all, the UN have said a plant-based diet is one of the biggest ways we can reduce climate change.
Some people reckon that vegetarian travel means you can’t enjoy all the local and traditional foods of a country, but we’re here to show you otherwise. We’ve learned so much about different kinds of vegetarian cuisine on our travels and it has made us much better cooks too.
House & Pet Sitting
We house sat our way through Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Mexico. We learnt to travel slowly, to cook vegetarian food in any kitchen we landed in, and to find every coffee shop with reliable wifi between Lisbon and Bangkok.
