Welcome to my little corner of the interwebs: my experience travel blog

What you can expect:

To Live Not Exist is a travel blog dedicated to living a more joyful life through experiential travel and collecting experiences, no matter your circumstances.

My aim is to encourage you to step out of your comfort zone and start LIVING life to the fullest!

I’ll be sharing some of my own, unedited, travel experiences to inspire you along with tips and resources to help you collate your own experience list and travel with confidence, whatever your budget.

To learn more about me, check out my About Me page.

What you won’t find:

This isn’t the place for hostel reviews, group tour experiences or conventional holiday advice.

How to navigate this blog:


This travel blog evolved from a random Facebook post about my NYE in Zanzibar: my friends kept asking for daily updates until that became a ‘thing’ every time I travelled. My travel stories are therefore at the heart of this blog.

A book, which has also been requested, is in progress: you can find out more about it, and register interest, here.

My mission is to live, not exist, so I travel often and even when I’m not travelling I collect experiences – even if that’s simply checking out a cute cafe, getting intentionally lost down a side street or trying something new.

I am a solo female traveller and the type of travel I do is existential travel: you can find out more about that here.

To navigate this blog, you’ll find three main sections:


Travel Stories

Travel Tips and Resources

Experience Reviews

Please feel free to email or DM me with any feedback or questions, and keep checking back here as this blog will evolve over time!

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