Who Are the Adventures of Jellie?

The Adventures of Jellie is made up of John and Ellie. We are travel writers, long term-backpackers and all-round adventurers!

We are blogging all of our travel experiences, photographing everything and writing guides to our adventures as we backpack all over Asia.

We like to stray away from the tourist trail and find our own adventures out in the world. We love to eat street food, drink in local bars and really slow travel, deep dive and get into whatever wonderful place we find ourselves. Sometimes we plan what we are doing in depth, sometimes we just go with the flow. Wherever we go, we go together and will try and bring you along with us!

This blog is our little space on the internet where we chronicle our adventures around the world. With in-depth guides, tips and tricks and lessons learned from our long-term travel.

This will not be your usual travel blog. Don’t expect perfect bikini body poses on Balinese beaches (John has work to do..) and three hundred photos of avocado on toast!

We like to take things slowly and really get to know a place. We're not 18 and this isn't our first trip through Asia. We love eating like locals, exploring by ourselves and generally getting happily lost in streets, mountains and markets.

This blog will be about our perspective on our adventure through this amazing world, complete with all the mishaps, mistakes, triumphs and successes along the way. Hopefully it will provide you with some inspiration, if not instruction, to get up and out of your comfort zone and into this wonderful world.

Follow along with our journey as we eat, drink and photograph our way around this beautiful planet.

Welcome to the Adventures of Jellie!

How The Adventures of Jellie Started

It was the first week of our first year studying at the University of Exeter when Jellie all began. Halfway down a long line for a bad club I met a cheerful Welsh girl who had not dressed for the weather. One loaned jacket, seventeen years, countless beers, adventures and travels later and here we are!

Ellie is a Welsh girl from rural Monmouthshire (her home village looks like a film set) and I (John) am a Womble from Wimbledon. We bonded over … well beer mainly and the establishments that sell it, but we quickly discovered our mutual love of travel, food and adventures. After university we moved up to Streatham, South London.

After a decade working in the offices of London and snatching travel in the time off these jobs allowed, we made the mature and sensible decision to leave our jobs and seek adventure around the world!

In July 2022 we set off.