Travel Blogger w/a Day Job. Loves Festivals, and London. 
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” [...]
On June 15th I’m flying out for my Zanzibar to Nairobi tour with G Adventures. Super, super excited, although a little nervous at the same time too. I haven’t been travelling by myself since I went to Australia for two months in 2008 and so this will definitely be good [...]
