Introducing ‘The Little Backpacker’
Introducing ‘The Little Backpacker’ and what you can expect from the site in the next few months I’m Jodie, a twenty something English girl. In 2010 I took a trip to Volunteer in South Africa instead...
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After my blog being live for a year now, I have finally invested in owning my own domain and becoming .com Over the past few weeks I have been working on the look of my site and now that I am fully...
View ArticleThe 5 blogs which inspired me to start my blog a year ago (plus a thanks for...
The 30th of June marks one year since I first started my blog. Sitting in my flat in London and willing the time away before I set off for Oz, I decided to do something to pass the time and set up The...
View ArticleThe Liebster Blog Award
This week I was nominated for the Liebster Blog Award by Gallivant Girl. It is the first time I have been nominated for anything like this so I’m pretty excited! What is the Liebster Blog Award?...
View ArticleCroatia Inspiration via Pinterest
This post is my entry for a blogging competition I was alerted to earlier this week. Now I’m not normally one for entering competitions when it involves making a blog post I wouldn’t normally do but...
View ArticleBehind the Scenes of The Little Backpacker #BlogHop
I have been nominated by the lovely Beverley of Pack Your Passport to take part in a Blog Hop. I have been watching and reading as Blog Hop has skipped around the blogosphere and seen some of my...
View ArticleAll Change On The Little Backpacker
Welcome to the new look, I hope you like it! I had been desperate to freshen up my blog look for months, the time just wasn’t right. I didn’t have hours to work on the look, nor did I even know where...
View ArticleWhat I learnt from WTM14
WTM14 was hectic, overwhelming and exciting. It was the first travel expo I had been to, the first blogging sessions I have attended and the first time I approached companies to work with me. So much...
View Article5 Top Travel Vloggers 2014
Video blogging has been around for a while but it wasn’t until recently that I really started playing much attention. The whole world of ‘vlogging’ as it is known, has been growing at a steady rate...
View ArticleMy Top Travels of 2014
This year has been crazy, not only have I had an amazing year of travelling but I’ve also achieved so much more with my life, including turning everything upside down and starting university. It hasn’t...
View ArticleTop Takeaways From Traverse 15
I spent last weekend down in Kingston, London for the Traverse 15 travel blogging conference. Events started on Friday night and continued until Sunday, it was a packed weekend of learning and fun. I’m...
View ArticleTop Three Travel Bucket List Destinations
I’m writing this blog post as an entry to the Transun bucket list competition. All you have to do is share your three travel bucket list destinations in a blog post and you could be in with a chance of...
View ArticleBarcelona Preview: Ideas From Bloggers
I’m off to Barcelona tomorrow for 6 nights and have frantically been trying to do some last minute research to ensure I make the most of this trip. We have tickets for the Formula One Fri-Sun but plan...
View Article31 Lessons I learnt At BlogStock 2015
On the first weekend in September I headed off to the outskirts of London for a blogging festival. This was the second year of the appropriately named BlogStock and as per last year was located in the...
View ArticleFive Ways I Manage My Time Productively
Can you tell I’m not doing much travelling at the moment? Because I seem to be writing about everything but travel. Hopefully this post will help those who are trying to balance too many things: a...
View ArticleThoughts on Blogging and 2016 Goals
You may have noticed lately there has been a lack of new content on here. Sure I’ve published those obligatory end of year post and rounded my month up but I’m still yet to blog about being in Rio de...
View ArticleWhat Happens When You’re a Blogger but Your Life isn’t Worth Blogging About
This title may or may not seem a little dramatic but this post is something I have been debating writing for a few weeks now. As you may have realised my blogging mojo has disappeared lately, I still...
View ArticleInspiring Youtubers
A few years back I published a post about my top vloggers of 2014 since then, vlogging has become much more popular and that post remains one of this blog’s most popular. So building on those two...
View ArticleBlogging Tips From Top Bloggers
I’ve been getting a few emails recently from readers asking for tips of starting a blog or furthering their blog. When I received them I am equally shocked and flattered as despite having run this blog...
View ArticleThe Thing About Travel Blogging
I’ve been mulling this post over for a while now then the other night, after a few glasses of sangria the idea of what I actually wanted to say hit me. I’ve been blogging for four years now and...
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