Travel Blogger w/a Day Job. Loves Festivals, and London. 
I did it – to the disgust of a few travel snobs I know – I went on an all-inclusive holiday to Sharm el Sheikh courtesy of easyJet holidays. It was cool y’know. A free bar for 12 hours a day, you get to try different foods, no worries about carrying any money round, a [...]
“Some people wouldn’t even do that in a lifetime” – Dad, when I just read this list to him. 2012 has definitely been a crazy one for me when it comes to exploring. I’ve visited 10 countries and 13 cities; lucky me. I’ve also scored a super cool job where [...]
If you’re looking for inspiration on what to do in Sharm el Sheikh for a week, here’s a few pics explaining what me and my mum got up to during our 7 days…
Ooo, it hurts. I’d fallen down the steps of my snorkelling boat two days before and banged my coccyx on every step, now the positioning of the back handle rubbed right on that very spot, but my body was so tense with fear that I daren’t try to shuffle to [...]
From 4:30am starts, to coping with previously unknown tent – or even bed – friends, and onto cleaning up after 18 others when you’re on ‘kitchen duty’, travelling in a tour group is definitely a unique way to see a country. On my recent G Adventures tour from Zanzibar to [...]
Five fish, same type, no Nemo and definitely no Ariel. That’s pretty much my experience of snorkelling in Nungwi, Zanzibar. Four of us from my tour from Zanzibar to Nairobi – two English girls, an Irish man and a Dutch man – paid 15,000Tsh each (£6) to go out on a dhow [...]
“I got a feeling, that tonight’s gonna be a good night.” The opening beats of this song usually make me want to gauge my ear drums out, but they’d never sounded better than at Vuvuzelas in Paje, Zanzibar. My new friend Ramson – the barman from Crazy Mzungo’s Flashpackers – [...]
Twenty eager faces stared at me in anticipation. The vickyflipfloptravels.com homepage was projected on the classroom wall bigger than I’d ever seen it (damn my balls and boobs post), the sounds of children playing outside was filtering in, but the air wasn’t, and I was sweating with panic. Turns out they’re [...]
“The Crazy Mzungo cocktail is for 2-3 people, but you’ll probably be able to drink one to yourself.” The first morning of my stay at Crazy Mzungo’s and I was unsure of how the barman Ramson knew me so well. Who’d he been talking to? “English people drink so much” [...]
“If you need the toilet in the night, look out of your tent and check for eyes first. If the coast is clear take your torch and do it as close to the tents as possible. Do not walk up to the toilets.” I put my bottle of water down, [...]
