Janetnewenham

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Why are we only hearing about all of this now. At the different points in the year she made most of it out to be OK or never addressed it.
 
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I’ve just seen the story of the tour group in the bombed out Saddam Hussein palace in Iraq singing ‘By the rivers of Babylon’ and I am absolute gobsmacked. So outrageous on so many levels
 
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I started following Janet around the time she did the trans Siberian and thought that she offered something different and much more engaging than your standard travel influencer. Needless to say, I lost interest during covid with the way she acted by coming home, complaining non stop about how this had impacted her life and then taking off again as soon as she could get a seat. It’s unfortunate as I thought she was one of the good ones.
 
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Is she going to build a new villa? Is this her new business: building villas to let? I really admired her for the unapologetic way she lived her life, focusing on travel & gaining experience instead of following conventional life path of getting a 9-5 job, a relationship, buying a house, etc. Is she just reverting to type now?
 
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I’ve been dying laughing at her latest travel stories - does she always come across like everywhere she goes is beneath her and moan on her travels? She sounds totally disorganised for this trip
 
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Yes. She is often extremely moany and she can't seem to cope with the realities of travel to less touristy places sometimes or places that are not in Asia, like Mexico she couldn't handle at all.

She hasn't done any research for this trip, which obviously in place that is less touristy is necessary. Loads of countries aren't set up for tourism or backpackers. I even remember in Myanmar which a good lot of backpackers go to, it was difficult and expensive to rent motorbikes. Yes, the place you are in is not like Bali, what a revelation 😂🤷‍♂️. Isn't that the point of travelling to new places or places with less tourists? And all she did was moan when she visited an Indonesian island about how she had been there so many times before , forget which one. So what do you want then?😂😂😂🤷‍♂️
 
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Also if you’re making western money $25 a day for a bike is not expensive
 
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Wtf did she even go there? Was half hoping she fell off the bike down that gravel road
 
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Banging on how poor the country is but takes a free trip back to the airport. Complete dose
 
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She’s one of the strangest of the instahuns I’ve come across - the “my villa” and travel carry on sounds very Ms. 19th century colonial adventures
 
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Doesn’t she get sponsoship from the tourist board of the country sends the visits to? I thought I had read an article about that because she was taking money from the Saudis tourism crowd when their human rights records are horrendous.
 
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Doesn’t she get sponsoship from the tourist board of the country sends the visits to? I thought I had read an article about that because she was taking money from the Saudis tourism crowd when their human rights records are horrendous.
Oh yes that's right I completely forgot about that 😳