Hi and welcome to Em’s Travels!
My name is Emily and I fell in love with traveling at 16 when my mum and I swapped presents for holidays at birthdays and Christmas’s. Often these were little weekend breaks to Europe twice a year to places a cheap flight away, I was in charge of planning everything while mum turned up for the ride. As someone who LOVES to research and plan this was a dream come true for me and meant I had pretty much total control over destinations.
When I moved away to university I was desperate to fit travel in anyway I could, regularly scrolling through Skyscanner’s everywhere section to find cheap flights and often booking flights last minute as a result. Consequently, a lot of these travels were solo, something I loved as I had total freedom. I worked multiple jobs alongside studying in order to save enough money to be able to travel as often as possible, normally staying in hostels and cooking my own meals to make money stretch that little bit more.
I started this blog as a way for my family to keep up with my travels and somewhere to share all of the amazing places I have been fortunate enough to visit.