If you don’t have the chance to travel as often as you’d like, here’s a fun way you can see the world from your armchair! Postcrossing is a site where you exchange postcards with random folk from around the world. If you like receiving snail mail, you will love the surprise of random postcards popping…
This is a monumental day for me as this article up on Bootsnall is the first major paid assignment I’ve completed! Bootsnall is a travel site that promotes Indie travel, and one of their segments is called Round the World (RTW) Wednesdays, where they post an article that encourages RTW travel. I pitched an idea…
The kind folk at Hejorama invited me back for another round of bossing their instagram account, in time for my trip to Brisbane where I attended Unholies P’s wedding. The trip journals and pix are on their way (I’ve been insanely busy with the travelling), but in the meantime here are 5 quick instagram highlights…
Crossposted from Go! Girl Guides, where I’m a contributing blogger. Check out the site for more great articles from other freewheelin’ travellin’ girls that go! It is close to midnight in Dubai, the girlfriends and I were all back at our five-star hotel dressing up, ready to check out the local clubs and have a…
Crossposted from Go! Girl Guides, where I’m a contributing blogger. Check out the site for more great articles from other freewheelin’ travellin’ girls that go! I just got back from a great week of diving in Manado with fabulous underwater critters and great weather, and I spent most of my days out on a boat diving…
So if you do follow me on twitter at @jac_theocctrav, you’ll know I’m probably not that much of a tweeter – most of my updates happen here on the blog or at the Facebook Page. This past week has been quite an interesting experience as I signed up for the Singapore twitter Rotation Curation project…
Hello my lovely Occasional Travellers! I’m just back from Manado and it was a helluva diving trip! Saw lots of great critters and had the chance to really work on my underwater photography, so you’ll be seeing quite a lot of Manado-related updates and pictures in the near future! In the meantime in case you’ve…
Realized I forgot to cross post this from The Sojourn Diaries when it went up earlier this year! Check out some musings on visiting a less often visited spot in Taiwan… Crossposted from The Sojourn Diaries where I’m a featured writer. Check out the site for more interesting and snappy travel stories! When planning a…
The lovely people at Maptia (I posted about them awhile back here) invited me to participate in a new segment on their blog called Places are like People, and here’s my first guest post there: It was pretty fun recapping my first solo trip to Seoul – I tend to do more informational blogposts about…
Recently I had the lovely pleasure of meeting some of the folk from travelmob, a social-stay website where you can host and book alternative accommodation in various countries around Asia Pacific. They invited me to share one of the places on my Travel Bucket List, and it got me thinking about the places that I…
