I was so thrilled to share my little bit of knowledge and experience traveling in Alsace!

It was in 2016 that Seb, Brighde (that’s me) Colleen and David headed to Rwanda for what we thought was a once in a lifetime experience. I have to admit I didn’t know much about the country at all.

HALP!! My brain is getting all confused! Since I (Brighde) started working on World Vegan Travel full time, I am now managing and trying to promote multiple platforms for social media and trying to create fun and engaging content for people who are interested in what we do! ​

Are you a YouTube addict? I must confess, I am and I definitely consume much more content than I create! Certainly, the platform is fantastic for creators, and technology has made it so that anyone who is prepared to learn and have a couple of thousand dollars of equipment can make really engaging content.

If you don't know Go Vegan Radio and the man behind it; Bob Lindon, he has aired a radio show about veganism (and later a podcast) since 2001! 

I rode an elephant while I was vegan. I know… I feel pretty bad about it. 

Before I was vegan, I rode elephants on a pretty regular basis.  I worked with Intrepid as a tour leader in Thailand between 2001 and 2003. Elephant riding had been an included activity on pretty much all of their tours which meant that I had to accompany my travellers on this activity and we even included visits to elephant shows (which claimed to be mahout training centres).

Finding a good reason to travel isn’t hard. Actually getting out on the open road and committing your time (and hard-earned money to travel) is where it gets a little more difficult. Often travelers come up with hundreds of different questions at the beginning of the trip.  For the answers, there are travel podcasts out there to help you plan a trip, large or small.

Hoi An has been well-known for being the best destination for vegan travellers in Vietnam for really quite a long time. It’s not just the incredible vegan food that draws people to the central Vietnam town but also the beautiful architecture, bike riding, the slow relaxed feel of the place and being just a couple of kilometres from the beach is an added bonus restaurant.

Self-catering in France is a very popular style of travel for vegans travelling to France. First, it is so much cheaper than eating out three meals a day. Even an extravagant day of self-catering will be about half the cost of eating out in restaurants  and we often say that we eat with views of some of the best views in France when we make our own lunches and eat them in the town square of a stunning French village or on a stunning Mediterranean beach. 

Do you sometimes decide to take the train despite the plane being a bit cheaper and a lot quicker? Well, I don’t usually, but I was obsessed with the idea of taking the train for a recent jaunt up to Chiang Mai. I think the main reason I wanted to do this was to perhaps reduce my carbon footprint for this short journey which according to this info graphic it produced half the emissions than a plane would for this length of journey.