‘Simply existing in Dublin was eating into my savings – so I’m spending them on travel instead’

After missing out on life experiences during the pandemic, and now struggling with the cost of living in Ireland, more twenty-somethings are spending hard-earned savings on travelling

Stunning scenery along the Hà Giang Loop in Vietnam

Lisa O'Donnell

Lying in bed in a dilapidated hostel after arriving in New Delhi, unable to sleep thanks to the deafening parade of traffic outside my windowless room, my first impression of my new lifestyle was, ‘What the hell have I done?’

What I had done, last January, was turn my back on my life as I knew it.