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Travel Story: How Expat Explore Changed My Life
At Expat Explore, we’re well aware of how travel can, quite literally, change a person’s life. Our main goal is to provide all types of travellers with tours that are fun, affordable and life-enriching. There is nothing more rewarding for us than finding out that our travellers’ lives have been positively impacted by a tour.…
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Travel Story: A Father-Daughter Adventure in Southern Italy!
Have you ever travelled abroad with your parents? Maybe when you were younger? As we get older and move out of our parents’ home, we don’t always get to spend as much time with our families as we would like to. Travelling together can be an amazing way to reconnect and spend quality time with…
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Travel Friendships: Tips on making friends when travelling solo to finding your soulmate on tour
Of all the things travellers do on tour, creating travel friendships and forming relationships is one of the most special things you can enjoy. With International Friendship Day coming up on 30 July, it is a great time to celebrate travel and friendship! Group tours offer travellers a number of benefits. You get to see…
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Expat Explore’s favourite travel moments of 2023
2023 has been an incredible year for travel! After years of lockdowns, travel restrictions and unsatisfied wanderlust, 2023 saw a resurgence of travel that the industry had scarcely seen before. Everyone wanted to travel and it seemed like everyone was travelling! Expat Explore certainly noticed an increased desire to travel in recent years and this…
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Travel Story: 7 Tours and Counting!
Abdul, 70, and Farida, 67, are a self-employed and soon-to-be-retired couple from Bristol, United Kingdom, who absolutely love travelling. They both have a keen sense of adventure with Abdul even being a bit of an adrenaline junkie! To date, Abdul and Fairda have embarked on an impressive seven tours with Expat Explore with plans to…
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Travel Story: Starting solo and ending as a family in South Africa
Travelling on your own can be a daunting experience. Even on a group tour, it can be challenging and insecurities may come up. Will I make friends? Will people like me? These concerns are completely normal and understandable. However, so often when we step outside of our comfort zone and try something new, that is…
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Get to know your tour leader: Aaron Rogers
Tour leaders are just travellers that got bitten even harder by the travel bug than most! If you have travelled with Expat Explore before, you will know that a passion for adventure is the defining quality of all of the wonderful people that work for us and our tour leaders exhibit this quality in abundance.…
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Travel Story: A South American adventure of a lifetime!
With 130 countries (and counting!) under her belt, there is no doubt that Nancy Gray is an avid traveller at heart! Nancy, 79, from Dallas, Texas, recently embarked on the Brazil, Iguazu & Argentina Delights tour in South America with Expat Explore. Over 13 days, she travelled from Rio de Janeiro to Buenos Aires, experiencing…
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Travel story: Scandinavia, snow, and festive celebrations!
In December 2022, Katy Fourie, 30, and Brad Mitchell, 33, both from South Africa, swapped sunshine for snow as they embarked on the Northern Explorer Christmas & New Year tour! The two enjoyed 18 days of unforgettable travel memories. They explored a whopping 10 countries in Scandinavia, the Baltics and Northern Europe. From enjoying a…
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Travel Story: A life changing Festive tour of the UK & Ireland
Looking for a cool way to celebrate Christmas? Well, maybe not cool but literally freezing? Cara Pritchard, a daring 30-year-old veteran from Brisbane, Australia, celebrated Christmas Day by jumping into the icy Irish Sea! This was just one of the highlights of her memorable UK & Ireland Christmas & New Year tour with Expat…