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Overlanding the World — Our Setup, Vehicles and What We Learned
@craig·24 June 2026·11 min read·👁 11
📍 Worldwide
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Long-form travel writing from the BugBitten community.
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Cycle Touring Kit — What Actually Works After Six Months on the Road
After six months of cycle touring across Europe, here is the kit that actually earned its place in the panniers — and the gear we ditched in the first fortnight.
@craig·24 June 2026·9 min read·👁 12
📍 Europe
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Iraqi Kurdistan Travel Guide — Erbil, the Citadel and the Quieter Side of Iraq
Iraqi Kurdistan is the unexpectedly easy back door to Iraq — visa on arrival at Erbil airport, a 6,000-year-old citadel at the centre of town, and Kurdish hospitality that is hard to overstate.
@craig·24 June 2026·10 min read·👁 5
📍 Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq
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Best Camping Chairs USA — 10 picks tested for 2024
Ten camping chairs worth packing — across budget, ultralight, big-and-tall, rocker and director styles. Tested, honest, with current Amazon availability for the US.
@craig·8 May 2026·6 min read·👁 23
📍 United States
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Fun Things to Write About in a Travel Blog (When the Trip Itself Feels Done)
You went somewhere, you took the photos, you wrote the post. Now what? Here are 23 angles that travel-blog veterans keep going back to when the obvious "I did this" posts dry up.
@craig·3 May 2026·6 min read·👁 13
📍 Worldwide
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Hokkaido Travel Guide — Japan's Wild Northern Island
Hokkaido is Japan's northern frontier — winter powder snow, summer lavender fields, the freshest seafood and an open landscape unlike anywhere else in the country.
@craig·3 May 2026·6 min read·👁 15
📍 Hokkaido, Japan
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Kawthaung Travel Guide — Myanmar's Southernmost Town
Kawthaung is the small port that closes Myanmar at its southernmost point — a quick longtail-boat hop from Ranong in Thailand, and the launching point for the Mergui Archipelago.
@craig·3 May 2026·6 min read·👁 26
📍 Kawthaung, Tanintharyi Region, Myanmar
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What Countries Eat Snails? A Culinary Map of the World's Snail-Eaters
Snails are not a niche French eccentricity — they're an everyday street food across the Mediterranean and a delicacy in parts of Asia. Here is the world map of where to try them.
@craig·3 May 2026·7 min read·👁 122
📍 Worldwide
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Burma Travel Guide — Bagan, Inle Lake and the Slow Country
Burma is the slow country of mainland Southeast Asia — Bagan's 2,000 temples, Inle Lake's leg-rowing fishermen, and a difficult 2026 backdrop you need to understand before booking.
@craig·3 May 2026·6 min read·👁 19
📍 Myanmar (Burma)
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Güiria Travel Guide — The Quiet Caribbean Corner of Eastern Venezuela
Güiria sits at the very tip of Venezuela's Paria Peninsula — the closest mainland point to Trinidad and a quiet base for some of the country's least-trampled coast.
@craig·3 May 2026·6 min read·👁 28
📍 Güiria, Sucre, Venezuela
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Is It Safe to Holiday in Russia?
Russia is open to tourists, but every Western government tells its citizens not to go. Here is what that actually means in practice — and how to think about it.
@craig·3 May 2026·6 min read·👁 183
📍 Russia
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Best Hostels for Backpackers in Bologna, Italy
Bologna is the underrated stopover between Florence and Venice — cheaper, livelier, and home to Europe's oldest university. Here are five hostels we keep recommending.
@craig·3 May 2026·6 min read·👁 15
📍 Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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