Hey!
We’re Sam & Lucy 👋
Welcome to Our Travel Blog!
We’re two adventurous souls from Scotland who have a great passion for photography, exploring the world, and drinking good coffee – all while sticking to a shoestring budget and navigating the daily rollercoaster of Sam’s type 1 diabetes.
Since 2021, we’ve been travelling full-time as digital nomads and have visited 52 countries so far. But we’re budget travellers at heart, and prefer to research and DIY most of our travels and experiences as much as we can.
However, we’ve gradually transitioned into more boujee backpackers and, leaving the hostels behind, we now indulge in a little more comfort while embracing slower travel, and are partial to the convenience of a Get Your Guide tour when it suits!
But we will never forget our roots, as experiences like house sitting in Brunei, long bus journeys like our 16-hour trip from Nicaragua to Costa Rica via Honduras, and seeking out the cheapest street food have helped forge our characters as much as beach hopping and sightseeing have!
How Our Blog Can Help You
Our overall aim with Type 1 Travelling is for it to be a practical travel resource that can not only inspire, but also help you to plan and achieve your own travel goals, while throwing in our own personality, photography, and anecdotes for good measure too!
Based on our first-hand experiences, we’ve poured our hearts into crafting helpful travel guides about the places we’ve visited, tips and tricks we’ve learned while travelling the world on a backpacker’s budget, and our experiences and advice for travelling with type 1 diabetes.
Basically, we want to clue you up so you’re ready to make your own unforgettable travel memories!
Why We Created Type 1 Travelling
The initial motivation to create Type 1 Travelling came from my (Sam) simple desire to help other diabetics overcome the fears of travelling long-term with the condition.
And I wanted to do this by answering the questions I struggled with before our first worldwide trip, and being the living proof that, with some extra planning and preparation, living with diabetes doesn’t have to hold us back from fulfilling our travel dreams!
But over time, we developed a shared passion for travel writing and the website has evolved into a travel blog with a T1D flair, where our personal opinions and advice can shine through.
Why You Can Trust Us
There’s a lot of noise and AI-generated slop on the web these days, but all of our guides are genuine, human-written content by us, and based on our own first-hand experiences.
All images are our own original photography too, which we’re proud of.
And we’re extremely passionate about keeping it all this way!
We’ve given our all to every piece we’ve written and work hard to keep all information as up to date and relevant as possible!
Type 1 Travelling is a team effort, but it’s just the two of us behind it all.
Our Travel Story So Far
After graduating from university in 2018, Lucy and I decided to pack two weeks’ worth of clothes, a three-month supply of insulin and set off on a one-year backpacking adventure in the land down under. This added fuel to the fire and really ignited our passion for travel and discovering new destinations.
After our year of travelling and working on Australia’s East Coast (and short trips to Bali and New Zealand), we spent three months backpacking our way home via Los Angeles, Mexico, Cuba, Miami, and Barcelona (this route was chosen purely because all these flights added up to the same cost as flying directly to the UK).
We arrived home to Scotland in December 2019 with a plan to work and save for a couple of months before resuming our backpacking travels in Southeast Asia. However, as we all know too well, the dreaded pandemic arrived shortly after and disrupted the world, including our travel plans. With no idea how long until travel would resume, we held desperately onto our dream and made the best we could of the situation by working and saving as much money as we could.
Fast forward a very uncertain two years and we finally grasped the opportunity to put the backpacks back on in October 2021 and booked a one-way ticket to Mexico. We have now travelled to a total of 6 continents and 52 countries and, while it’s hard to pick favourites, there’s a reason why we’ve returned to Albania, Egypt, Morocco, Mexico, and Thailand multiple times!
But one thing’s for sure, we don’t have plans to stop anytime soon, and our ultimate goal is to make this a lifestyle rather than a trip!
From our first big backpacking trip to Bali and beyond in 2018, to our home from home in Dahab, Egypt in 2026.
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