About Far Out Travel
FINDING OUT ABOUT FAR OUT TRAVEL...
WHY WE CREATED FAR OUT TRAVEL • WHO ARE FAR OUT TRAVEL • HOW IT STARTED • CREATION OF FAR OUT • THE FAR OUT VISION
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
- Ralph Waldo
For us, there was always someone who made our travels happen, or made them as memorable and captivating as they were.
What we'd give to be that person for you. If one person tells us we helped them fall in love with travel, we have succeeded; that is our greatest accomplishment.
Why I created Far Out Travel
Hi, I'm Greg, a massive travel enthusiast who dislikes reading and writing. I particularly loathe reading other people's travel blogs. They seem biased, sell'y and full of shit. And sorry, I swear a lot, but I will try to keep that to a minimum.
You know, the blogs with titles such as '20 best hostels in...' then, in the equivalent city guides, they'd recommend four completely different accommodations. Plus, the wording appeared to be a copy and paste of a Hostelworld write-up - only with a fat commission-based link.
Again, their 'best things to do' and travel accessories blogs hit the same vibe. How could someone write two blogs called 'the best things to do in...'? Yet, neither blog mentioned anything the other had to say.
Frankly, it blew my mind.
Someone out there had to be telling the truth about travelling and not just in it for profit.
Well, sadly, I couldn't find one I trusted.
...And that's why I created Far Out Travel.
After All, How Hard Could it be to Run a Travel Blog?
In a word, problematic!
For one, I'm rubbish with technology - it seems to blow up in my hands, especially computers. I had a better chance of landing on the moon with a fresh burger in hand than building a website.
Secondly, I can still hear my English teacher telling me I'd never go places as I couldn't spell, my grammar was awful, and my general English vocabulary was below average. To be fair, she had a point.
Whilst I'm not proud to say it (which means I am), I'm yet to read a whole book, and I'm 40 this year (2026). Reading and writing bored the pants off me.
Finally, and probably more devastating than the two above combined, I didn't have the money to travel, let alone make the dream happen.
That said, the one thing I had on my side was that I'm a determined little bugger who doesn't give up. I will find a way around anything, and making shit happen is something I am good at.
So Far Out Travel, whilst a dream, would happen. I just needed to figure out how...
So, Who Are Far Out Travel?
Greg
Far Out's shortest, but most experienced team member. Professional dreamer, hustler, and happiest on the road away from the UK. The embodiment of the weary old traveller. In charge of Far Out's front of house and marketing.
Charlie
The younger, taller, and optimistic half of Far Out Travel. Much newer to backpacking but already a travel addict. Happiest travelling cheap and slow. Avid researcher and reader, and Far Out's captain of tech and fixing Greg's grammar.
We are two mates who met working shifts in 2016 and wanted more from life than watching the sunrise from an office window.
Having chatted about all things travel, it soon became evident that Charlie was the exact person I was looking for. His tech skills are something NASA would be happy to have, and his English, well, MENSA would have him writing the thesaurus.
It sounds like something they'd do at a 'fun' house party!
With him onboard, Far Out Travel felt less like a dream and more like a possibility.
Although, as can be seen below, and unbeknownst to me, it didn't seem to start well...
How It All Started
"What a twat..."
Those were the exact words that came to my mind when Greg pitched back up at the office after a year of travelling in Asia and Australia. He kept talking about how amazing it was to be truly travelling: exploring new places, meeting new people, and just feeling free.
It was sickening.
He also talked a lot about how shit it was being back. Not a particularly sensitive approach when working in an office where everyone else is getting four weeks' leave a year.
Although I'll admit, it sounded like he'd had the trip of a lifetime. Likewise, it sounded more vibrant than lying on a beach for two weeks, which is what I did every summer.
The thing with Greg is, when he's in England, he's jaded and pessimistic about pretty much everything. The whole world seems to be going wrong until you get him talking about travel. Then he lights up, and he's suddenly everyone's best mate and full of hope and optimism. It's like a magic trick.
So, if travel can cure the world's grumpiest man, maybe there's something in it...
The Far Out Pitch
Having obviously entertained and thrilled Charlie for a few months with my travel stories, I knew it was time.
I pitched my dream to him as a way of us ditching the office and seeing the world. It was a night shift, and it went something like, "Oi Charlie, it's going to be called Far Out Travel".
To which he replied, "What? I'm busy, mate!"
We worked on life-saving shit, but I wasn't having that. I knew he'd listened to all my stories and blatantly loved them.
He must not have heard me.
Turns out, he had.
So we immediately stopped whatever we were working on, much to our boss's dismay (sorry again, Neal...), and started planning the Far Out Travel dream.
The Creation of Far Out
After returning from our first trip together, full of enthusiasm, we did what any modern, aspiring traveller does: set up an Instagram page.
From there, our following started to grow. Instagram was quickly followed by ideas of a website, which would be somewhere to document our travels and somewhere you guys could, if you wanted, take advice.
The plan was to divide and conquer.
Greg left for Bali in Jan 2018, where he learnt the tricks of the trade in the world of tour guiding with Tru Travels. In total, he spent seven months lapping up the heat and the Balinese culture before taking 'the long way home' under the guidance of our Insta followers. After a few polls, you sent him to Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Abu Dhabi.
Meanwhile, after Berlin, I promptly used all my annual leave for a month in Australia, getting my first feel for real adventure and freedom in Queensland. Greg was right: this was awesome.
I decided I needed to make money whilst travelling. Therefore, I spent the next few months getting qualified to crew a yacht before, in August 2017, heading to Monaco to work with the billionaires.
Funny enough, money didn't buy happiness, and working on a yacht didn't give me the freedom I wanted. But - turning our pokey travel scrapbook into a fully-fledged travel blog might.
So we headed home and started working on a website. Turns out, building a proper website needs a bit of practice, and ours was shit.
So, we honed our writing, photography and tech skills, and, alongside work, more travels, and a global pandemic, the new Far Out Travel was born.
The Far Out Travel Update
February 2026, and the latest updates are coming thick and fast.
Charlie is living in Perth, Australia and working in the gold mines, and has a lovely girlfriend, who has gone out with him. Woooooo... Fuck off, it's not a panto.
And me, I'm back in the UK, having bought a new house with my girlfriend. Don't...
We've had our first child, Isla, who is nearly two months old. Yeah, Boxing Day - I know, great planning, but what can you do?
Whilst I spend a few months at home, I am rehauling the website, with a new style, design and content.
However, the fundamental values still stand. We will always remain truthful, bringing you nothing but honest content and assisting you the best we can.
The Far Out Vision
Firstly, and most importantly, our vision is to provide you with the best, most reliable and trustworthy content. To tell you exactly what travelling is like. We want to help new travellers make memories that most people only dream of.
Likewise, we want to be one of the many people you look back on and say: "they helped make my travels better than I could have ever imagined".
Between us, we had so many of those people, and we are grateful for every one of them.
In the future, the vision is to open hostels in beautiful parts of the world, with swim-up bars, great food, endless stories and providing the ultimate travel stopover.
From these hostels, Far Out Travel Tours will guide you around local communities, cultures and through some of the most stunning scenery and wildlife the world has to offer.
All of this is aimed at giving you the best experience.
Yet we want more: we want to give back to those local communities and places that made our travels so special.
Yes, we're here to have the best life.
But there is more to it than that. As travellers, we have a duty to provide a clean, sustainable and wonderful world for future travellers to enjoy.
