Photo credit: Blue Bahia, Sandy Bay, Roatan, Honduras via photopin (license) Cruises used to get a bad rap – especially from the younger crowd. Things have certainly changed, and these days your fellow passengers are just as likely to be your…
Photo credit: Turkish Balloons via photopin (license) You’ve all heard of boutique hotels, I’m sure. The idea is that each place is unique, rather than being part of a huge hotel chain and virtually indistinguishable from the other ones –…
Photo credit: Empire of the sun via photopin (license) As you may notice, at Grown-up Travel Guide we love road trips – and there are few countries better suited to getting behind the wheel and hitting the open road that…
Everyone else is doing it, so let’s jump on the bandwagon and publish the Grown-up Travel Guide top places to visit in 2016. Today it’s our wish list; these are the places we would most like to visit for our…
The incredibly unpronounceable Eyjafjallajökull volcano became notorious in 2010 by closing European airspace due to ash cloud spewing into the atmosphere. The resulting chaos caused a domino effect all over the world and put volcanoes in Iceland firmly on the…
Introduction This is the latest article in the series detailing some of the many highlights of the Costa Brava in Catalonia. In case you missed them, you can read the post about Blanes here and the one about the Lloret de Mar…
Photo credit: Köln Panorama 07-02-15 via photopin (license) Rather unbelievably, we are already into February. New Year’s resolutions have most likely already been broken, but the nights are drawing out (depending on where you live, but they are here in…
Street food vendors serve up amazing food without the expensive price tag; a plus if you’re a student! Discover the best street food in London here: The street food scene has really taken off, and it’s no surprise why. Street…
Image Source: survivinginitaly.com We hear all the time how friendly and welcoming Italians are, and yes, from the first ciao you encounter in either the airport lounge (the closest being the Sandro Pertini Airport, approximately 38 miles away) or the…
Photo credit: IMG_0708 via photopin (license) This post was sponsored by MUSTO Growing up, I was one of a very select few English children lucky enough to experience skiing in the European Alps on a regular basis. This was due to…
I am Jacob Laukaitis, a 21 year old digital nomad, who’s already been to more than 30 countries in the last 2 years. I love making videos of places I visit so here’s one from my last trip to the…
Although we can all enjoy jetting off to some seriously far-flung destinations, sometimes you can find a little more excitement closer to home. And the Grand National in particular has become not only a fixture on the sports calendar, but…