Andy Higgs

Andy Higgs

I know what it's like to go from being a crazy backpacker without a care in the world, via being a vaguely sensible parent to being an adventurer once more. In other words, evolving into a Grown-up Traveller. Like everyone else, I love to travel, have visited a lot of countries and all that but my big thing is Africa. I also own and run The Grown-up Travel Company as a travel designer creating personalised African itineraries for experienced adventurers

You Are Never Too Old to Travel

Photo by Unknown // CC0 1.0 Traveling in its basic form is just getting from one place to another, but unsurprisingly it can be much more than that. One of the greatest things about it is that you are most…

Pearls of the Costa Brava – Begur

Introduction This is the fourth article in the series detailing some of the many highlights of the Costa Brava in Catalonia. In case you missed them, you can read about Blanes here, all about Tossa de Mar in this article, about…

Camping 2.0

There will come a time when you, intrepid explorer that you are, no longer have something to prove to yourself. You’ve done the whole “conquering the great outdoors with just a backpack and multi-tool”, and you’ve seen the deepest part…

Crawling The Length Of Croatia

Source Whether you like socialising with people or exploring uncharted territory by yourself, travel is the perfect way to broaden the mind. It’s always worth pushing yourself and going to new places. Even those places that you think may not…