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Gap year enters fifth year

November 25, 2019November 25, 2019 The Tragic Traveller 0 Comments

Trystan Murkhin told his parents he was heading off on a gap year at the age of 23, they were rightfully suspicious. They knew their wrong’un of a son wasn’t going to be coming home any time soon.

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BREAKING: Bloody hell, the Brits are singing again

November 23, 2019November 23, 2019 Paul Norman 0 Comments alcohol, British tourists, drunk, Latvia, loud, Riga, stag party

Tonight, streets have come alive with the voices of the people. It’s not a parade, nor even a protest, but something much more special: pissed Brits.

Vegan, gluten-free, lactose-intolerant backpacker drinks beer

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Vegan, lactose-intolerant, gluten-free backpacker only consumes sugar if it’s been fermented first

November 1, 2019November 1, 2019 The Tragic Traveller 0 Comments alcohol, diet, drinking, food, gluten-free, healthy, hypocrite, vegan

A 23-year-old backpacker from Portland only eats locally sourced, vegan, raw, activated superfoods, but is happy to drink vodka and do drugs.

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Australian tourism ad fails to mention skin cancer, deadly animals, price of beer

October 30, 2019October 30, 2019 The Tragic Traveller 0 Comments Australia, beer, bushfire, danger, expensive, snakes, sunburn, tourism ad

An Australian tourism ad that’s heavy on stock footage of remote beaches and cuddly koalas paints an unrealistic picture of the Land Down Under, backpackers around the country have claimed.

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Village man about to do something awful to that chicken

October 20, 2019October 21, 2019 The Tragic Traveller 0 Comments Albania, chicken, death, simple life, village, villager

Onlookers are waiting in suspense as an Albanian village man holds the fate of a local chicken quite literally in

British woman absolutely cannot speak French

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“Je parlay fronsay” says English girl who absolutely cannot speak French

October 14, 2019October 14, 2019 The Tragic Traveller 0 Comments Birmingham, British tourists, France, French, language, Nice, speaking French

A lass from Birmingham who took two years of French in high school incorrectly believes she’s bilingual, sources have confirmed.

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Brexit may force British tourists to interact with a local for once in their fucking lives

September 30, 2019September 30, 2019 Paul Norman 1 Comment beach, Brexit, British tourists, Greece, holiday, Italy, Mediterranean, Spain

Thanks to the general neediness pervasive among English tourists in particular, the EU’s freedom of movement provision was vital to the industry.

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Disturbingly intense bloke at hostel has pretty good information that Greta’s actually a lizard ‘ey

September 26, 2019September 26, 2019 The Tragic Traveller 0 Comments aliens, conspiracy, Greta Thunberg, high, Illuminati, lizard people, theory

That bloke with the really intense eyes who works at your hostel isn’t buying the whole Greta Thunberg climate change bullshit for a second, multiple sources have confirmed.