Sometimes words tell the truth. Remember this.

*Before I go any further, I would like to point out that I understand the irony of writing about how boring backpackers are in a blog called “The Backpacker”. After all, travel blogs are a modern-day curse for friends of travellers everywhere – not content to send letters, postcards, or even emails anymore, we now feel compelled to commit our every long bus trip and dodgy meal to the public domain of cyberspace, and expect our friends to pore over them as obsessively as we write them.

Just as Coco warned me, no one cares much about your adventures unless they’ve been to wherever it is you’re wanking on about, or they know the people you were travelling with. Sure, your relatives might put up with looking at a few photos, but everyone else will be bored witless, and the less subtle will let you know all about it. (“Wow, you took 400 photos of African landscapes? They’re all crap.”