sickness

Delayed Travel Plans Due To Sickness

Our tickets are booked and paid for and we are due to travel to Country Number 68 on our world journey. We’ve just spent nearly a month in Vietnam and had a really wonderful time when on the very last night my son proclaims his stomach “doesn’t feel right” and in a short space of […]

Salt Flats Bolivia – DO NOT Lick the Salt

Today I share with you a serious warning if you are visiting the salt flats of Bolivia, and that is to ‘DO NOT Lick the Salt‘. I sit on a pillow on the wooden floorboards, in a dark and basic bedroom, and here I type. Today has been a VERY long day.  When Illness Hits And You […]

La Paz Bolivia and Altitude Sickness

I wake feeling like I have been run over by a bus, and then I remember I have just been on a bus for all of yesterday from Peru and I have Altitude Sickness. Altitude Sickness Strikes Here I am, lying in bed and experiencing Altitude Sickness in La Paz. Waking up feeling like vomiting isn’t the best […]

Isla Bastimentos Panama And Illness When Traveling

Isla Bastimentos Panama And Illness When Traveling Illness When Traveling I wake today on Isla Bastimentos Panama and I am feeling really ill. I have a nasty cold and quite a fever and messages on Facebook are coming thick and fast. People start getting concerned I have malaria, but it really is just a cold. We had […]