Appreciation and awards.

I have a very loyal friend. A very lovely, loyal friend who has a lovely blog for which she deservedly gets many lovely blog awards and, being loyal, she awards them back to me!

Thank you Kiki! If you haven’t checked her blog out yet, do it now as it is a visual treat! Especially if you are into all things interior design and also if you, like me, like to look at pretty things!

I’ve been pretty busy recently, so am only now able to set about awarding these to others. But I am glad I waited, as in the past few weeks I have discovered many awesome new blogs to mention! So without further ado, and not quite following the rules, here is a list of blogs that I think are great and deserve lots of awards and attention:

Stupid Ugly Foreigner

The Nomad Grad

World Via Standby

Two One-Way Flights

Bucket List Publications

The Got Rum Diary

Airplanes and Waterfalls

Life Out of the Box

50 Year Project

A Passport Affair

The Urge to Wander

What an Amazing World!

Wandering Sasquatch

and of course North Leads to Home

I haven’t quite followed the rules exactly (that’s how I roll) but, if you want to take part in this awesome sharing of love, here are the rules…

The Versatile Blogger Award

  1. Display the award logo on your blog.
  2. Thank and Link back to the person who nominated you.
  3. State 7 things about yourself.
  4. Nominate 15 bloggers for this award.
  5. Notify those bloggers of the nomination by linking to one of their specific posts

The Best Blog Award

  1.      Naming your blog who gave you the award and thank him/her.
  2.      Give the award to 10 other blogs with less than 200 followers.
  3.      Follow the blog that gave you the award
  4.      Inform blogs that you give the prize.

I am always looking for new  distractions from work  reading material so if you have any travel blog recommendations, or a travel blog of your own, then link them to me in the comments below!

Inspiring Blog Award

To have only had this blog a month and be nominated for an Inspiring Blog Award is so so exciting! My lovely friend at northleadstohome nominated me today after receiving a well deserved nomination herself for her beautiful home interiors blog- definitely check it out! So thank you so much Kiki and thank you as well to all you lovely people for viewing my little blog!

So without further ado, according to Inspiring Blog Award Rules here are 7 facts about myself and my nominations for the Inspiring Blog Award:

Seven facts about me

  1. I am studying Psychology at the University of Birmingham and I absolutely love it! I know a life of travel is not the usual path for a psychology student but right now I know I am done with education (for the time being at least), the job market in England isn’t exactly thriving  and I definitely want to live abroad for at least a year! Which brings us nicely to my second fact…
  2. I have applied to teach English in South Korea this September- let’s hope I get it now that I have made it public!
  3. My ultimate destination is Jordan- Petra, The Dead Sea, hummus, Bedouins- I am fascinated!
  4. I love to draw and pencil portraits of faces are my passion. Check out my Facebook page if you are interested in seeing what I can do: www.facebook.com/JadesPersonalPortraits
  5. Me and my incredible boyfriend Oli met on a beach in Vietnam! We travelled together in a big group for a month and then after our travels we coincidentally both went to the University of Birmingham and have now been together two and a half years!
  6. Mine and Oli’s dream is to own a hostel on the beach- we’ve been to so many hostels, in so many different places and feel like we really know what makes one great so… We even have a potential floor plan! Maybe in 20 years time we’ll be employing the likes of northleadstohome to design our interior!
  7. I have been to every continent bar Antarctica!

My nominations for the Inspirational Blog Award

The following are a little collection of incredible blogs that I have only discovered in the last month, they are both a source of inspiration and also of encouragement as they have supported me in my journey into the blogging world!

North Leads To Home

Gallivance

A Word in Your Ear

These two blogs have been so helpful in educating me about the highs and lows of teaching in South Korea

Stupid Ugly Foreigner

Mapping Words

And these next blogs are my true inspiration. They belong to a bunch of incredible people who are out there in the world making a life for themselves on the road and they are kindly telling us all about it! I have been reading them for a couple of years now and they are the reason I plucked up the courage to make this blog. If you love travel you HAVE to check these out.

Alex in Wanderland

Uncornered Market

Never Ending Voyage

Wandering Earl

Bridges and Balloons

Further Bound

A Little Adrift

Adventurous Kate

The Planet D

Legal Nomads

This last blog is slightly different from the others but I have to put it in as I am a little obsessed with it! Number 8 on my facts list should be that I love fashion! Not enough to buy into it as all my money is reserved for travel but I still love the beauty and creativity of it so here is an inspirational fashion blog…

Fashion Influx