JUST LIKE CORONAVIRUS: Derrick has now spread to more than 40 countries
There’s a new plague sweeping your hostel. It’s already been to more than 40 countries and it’s spreading fast.
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Author: The Tragic Traveller
Lonely backpacker wonders what it’d be like to have a girlfriend, job, home, savings, support network, purpose, career path, sex life, sense of self worth
Tonight, while everybody else is hooking up, Timmy has been left to ponder what it would be like to have a woman to hold.
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Travel wanker went to Wuhan “before it was famous”
Your hostel’s obligatory travel wanker wants you to know he visited Wuhan way before any of this coronavirus kerfuffle.
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Wistful Scott Morrison types “Maldives” into Skyscanner
After literal days of work, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is bushed and could really do with a tropical holiday.
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“New year, new me,” mumbles backpacker coming down from week-long bender on January 7
One traveller’s new year’s resolution has come a week late after a booze- and drug-fuelled bender got his 2020 off to a very sloppy start.
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Backpacker resolves to continue drinking, partying, not having a job in 2020
An Aussie backpacker has today publicly vowed to continue “being a mad dog and not give into mainstream ideas of how to live life.”
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FUCK YES! Traveller’s Nan sends money instead of shit sweater for Christmas
A traveller’s risky move to spend Christmas away from home has paid off big time, The Tragic Traveller’s finance correspondent can confirm.
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Backpacker celebrates Christmas with awkward Skype call to extended family
There’s nothing like an awkward Skype call to catch up with all those distant relatives who didn’t have anywhere better to be this Christmas.
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Pilot pops off for scheduled break during catastrophic engine fire
A pilot for Australia’s largest airline has today stuck to his guns and taken his scheduled 15-minute break on a Hawaii-Sydney flight despite both the plane’s engines being on fire and the plane itself being stuck in a critical nosedive.
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4 heavenly tropical destinations where you can shirk your duty as the leader of a burning nation
If you want to leave the bushfires behind so you can get lit in paradise, we’ve scouted four of the best tropical destinations for you.
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Long-term traveller celebrates yet another birthday with random people in random hostel
For the fifth year in a row, a long-term traveller has celebrated his birthday in some hostel somewhere with some totally random people.
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Absolute fuckhead continues to vape in Sydney
A grade-A tool has today been spotted vaping in Sydney, a city currently so polluted by hazardous smoke that hipsters have begun knitting the air.
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