About

I am someone who loves to travel, I've had adventures all over the world, and hopefully still have many more to come. I've had some amazing and crazy experiences and learned a lot along the way. I've always felt that I should document them on a blog, but for lots of reasons, mainly a mix of laziness and a lack of confidence, have never gotten round to it. Recently I started blogging about trying to reduce my plastic waste and lower the impact I have on the planet. I feel really passionate about protecting the environment and really enjoyed blogging about it, and got to thinking that part of the reason I feel so strongly about protecting our planet is that I've been lucky enough to experience so much of it; being a globe trotter should go hand in hand with being a globe lover. So I decided to bite the bullet, re-name my blog and set about documenting some of my greatest adventures around the world, mainly just for myself, but also to share my stories and hope that some of the things I've learned along the way will help others making similar trips. I also want to continue writing about sustainable lifestyle changes that will help protect our amazing planet.


So why blog about the environment?

Photo courtesy of NOAA

Images like this have a lot to do with it.

Recently I've become more and more aware of the impact my lifestyle has on the planet. Seeing images of enormous islands of rubbish floating in the ocean, watching baby dolphins and seabirds dying by ingesting toxins from plastics on the BBC's Blue Planet II, and feeling the ominously rising global temperature and sea levels looming like a portent of doom has left me feeling more than a little helpless but wanting to make a change.

I've been so inspired by a number of different zero-waste and minimalist bloggers who manage to go plastic-free and fit a year's worth of rubbish in a jam jar, but their lifestyles seem a bit out of reach for me. The more aware you become about plastic the more you realise that we manage to wrap it around just about everything! Just think about it the next time you're in the supermarket doing a food shop, or buying beauty products at the drugstore - you just can't get away from it!

It's easy to feel overwhelmed, and much as I'd love to make that drastic zero-waste change in a day, really it's not feasible. But what is feasible is taking it one step at a time, making small changes that day by day become big ones. So that's what I'm doing, and I've decided to blog my journey to becoming an Eco warrior in the hope that it might inspire others to make similar small steps.