Get to know the founder: 12 facts about me (Abbay!)
Travel is personal. Between all the calls, emails, and texts from the first call to the time my clients get home, my clients end up becoming my friends (which makes this a super fun job!).
Let’s get to know each other. I’m sharing 12 facts about me and would love to hear if we have any in common…
An Englishman in Paris: Top 5 Highlights
Hi, my name is Chris and I'm Abbay's Escapes' first hire. I'm also Abbay's husband (which may have helped me get the job!) and guest blog writer this month. Nice to meet you!
Today I'm going to be sharing with you my top 5 highlights as an Englishman in Paris.
Do the toilets flush the opposite way in New Zealand? 12 common questions I get about New Zealand.
For whatever reason, there are a lot of random questions that come up about New Zealand, this tiny island nation at the bottom of the world. However, it wasn’t until my friends began asking me for videos of a toilet flush, that I knew I needed to do a better job at educating.
Eloping in New Zealand’s South Island.
It wasn’t always our plan to elope. Like almost all of my honeymoon couples, we had to cancel the big white wedding that we had originally envisioned. Alas, what actually happened was absolutely perfect for us.
My top 10 tried and true ways to travel (without leaving my house).
I am here to share the list of ways I travel without leaving my house and examples of how in my house. These are the ones that have stuck after months of practice and have kept me going.
10 reasons why Americans are googling ‘how to move to New Zealand’
The recent presidential debate appears to have dismayed enough Americans that US Google searches for how to move to other English-speaking countries went through the roof the night the debate aired. New Zealand was one of those countries.
Do you know what's in your backyard? The lesson I wish I had learned sooner about domestic travel .
Do you know what’s in your backyard? If it was a snake, would it have bitten you? It would have bitten me, and I’m here to explain why!
Confessions of an accountant turned travel advisor & entrepreneur.
When I start thinking about the why of my new business, I can’t help but be reminded of all the twists, turns, and events that led me to this change in careers. Most of the time, these things don’t happen in an instant, right? More often, it’s the culmination of decisions, significant and insignificant, made on a daily basis which determine our paths and ultimately link up to where we are now. It boggles my mind to think about how different my ‘now’ might look like if I had made a few different decisions…
I moved across the world & this is what happened.
Experiences that shape and define many of us often go hand in hand with travel. I'm going to rewind to 2016 because this is when I recognize having one of these defining experiences.