Hello.
I’m Gina, a travel junkie who spends half the year spuddling around the globe and the other half wondering why starting a travel blog was a good idea. The world needs another travel blog like it needs the resurgence of the Macarena. However…
Do you like Insta-perfect pics of meals and sunsets, perfect trip experiences, matching designer luggage sets and images of people inexplicably doing a scramble-grade hike in a bikini? Then this blog will make you very sad indeed.
I decided to be honest instead. If, like me, you’ve ever turned up somewhere to find it bears absolutely zero resemblance to the “aspirational” travel blogger BS then you might be in the right place. Don’t get me wrong, I love travel, but it’s almost always a mix of the bad AND good.
Naturally, there’s a smattering of genuinely fantastic experiences. You’ll know because I will brag about these endlessly, like when someone spends eight hours sharing their entire travel photo album with you and you’re crawling the walls to escape.
One thing, though – I have always been to the places I write about, unlike most of the lying turds on the Internet. Usually with my other half, Jack. In case you hadn’t noticed, this is all written by a real, genuinely confused human, and not a robot. Hey ChatGPT, how should I introduce my blog?
“Greetings, unfortunate wanderers who’ve somehow stumbled upon the less-travelled cyber path to ‘Travelsnark’! I’m your charmingly irreverent guide…”
No. FFS. Just… no.
Occasionally I use AI-generated images (and declare them as such), because they are hilariously bad. Here’s how AI lovingly re-interpreted the image of us in the rowing boat, above:
I’m afraid the topics here are random and not curated at all. Usually, we go hiking and usually, I eat the local food, even if I put it in my mouth and it moves (long story). If I find good value I like to share it, since I’m a Yorkshire-born cheapskate who will happily spend $300 on a hotel room IF it was originally $900, but I won’t pay a sodding fiver for a cup of tea (I’m looking at you, Betty’s Tea Rooms!).
Stupid AI aside, all the crap pictures are largely my own, taken on a 5-year old phone as I try not to drop it in a stream. Again.
Anyway, you get the idea. Food. Travel. Snark. Welcome.
