September 4, 2025 • 17 mins
Kofi and Talula jumped in the Podvan about a year ago in Long Jetty, while they were here backpacking around Australia. In this Quick Fix, you'll hear how Kofi dropped out of uni and started a "Solo Travel Vlog" from scratch - to the point where he now has over 100,000 followers on his socials and travels the world for a job!
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(00:06):
I'll start off with your names. Don't know that I'll ever get
another Kofi and Tallulah in theband.
No, you probably. Won't and I do.
You never know. Kofi isn't Kofi Annan, Yeah.
That's who I was named after. No way.
Yeah, I don't know who Kofi Annan is.
I just know the name, yeah. So he.
Was you better know everything. I know, I know a little.
He was a So he's part of the US Army or military and he was like
(00:27):
a United Nations, like peace leader, yes.
So part of the UN right so. And your parents decided to name
their baby after. Yeah, that guy.
So people ask, am I Ghanaian? No, I'm not Ghanaian because
Kofi means born on a Friday in Ghana.
In Ghana. What day were you born on
Monday. OK, so a good start.
(00:49):
Yeah, I know. We've we've picked this name for
him. Just got to hold on for four
more days. His name?
'S not. Going to make.
Sense and then they just must have had a liking towards yeah,
yeah. Because my grandpa was in the
RAF and he's from originally from Trinidad, so my mum's from
Trinidad. So I don't know if that's got
(01:11):
anything to do with it. Ever met another Kofi on your
travels? I haven't met another Kofi.
I haven't on my travels. I haven't met another Kofi
weirdly in the town Tallulah lives in.
Really. And we actually went to the same
school for about a year. 2 Kofis.
Two kofis in one school it was. Funny.
Now, Tallulah, where do you comeinto this?
Just. I haven't even gotten to what
(01:31):
he's doing yet. But I'm his girlfriend, right?
So we've been scared. I didn't know that was my way of
getting around asking. You might be his sister.
You might be a random he just met yesterday.
Just followed him. But hang on, you've got the same
accent. Yeah, we are from the same area,
like Cheshire is the area, but Cheshire.
(01:52):
Cheshire is where to us from is a more affluent bit more posh.
Oh. She's a bit.
Fancy. Yeah, she's a bit fancy.
Yeah, and I'm from the working. Class, but you travel all around
the world doing all this stuff. I just want to get the where the
two of you because I wasn't expecting a Tallulah.
No. I don't know that anyone ever
is. Where did your name come from?
My mom loved Bugsy Malone. I didn't even watch Bugsy
(02:14):
Malone. No, but I do know my name is
Tallulah. Literally.
Just that she loved that film. That's them now I'm Tallulah.
Wow, you happy with your name? I wasn't for a long time.
I've got you guys. In here, have not spoken yet at
all about the travel stuff. I'm just unpacking your names,
(02:37):
getting the lay of the land. So did you ever want to change
your name by deed poll? But I don't think I'll that far.
But yeah, I I just remember thembeing like, what an unusual
name. When I was younger, I used to
think that was they were like trying to say that they hated my
name. But now I understand what.
Were they though? Yeah, I think they love it.
Yeah, maybe they were. A great name, yeah okay, so
(03:00):
you're both from the same area, yeah so how Long's the travel
thing been happening from when you left to start the.
So just over four months for this trip.
To Lula been part of that through or oh, you've.
Done this. You've done this part together?
Yeah. You're the one behind the
camera. Yeah.
You flying the drone? No, that's me.
(03:20):
That's him. No, it's not, but because.
One of those it's on like a. You can set it to automatic
travel so you can just track yourself.
There's a shot where you go out onto some, out onto a big
boulder kind of thing, and then the camera goes past and over
the beautiful water and stuff and I'm like, he's I thought he
was travelling alone. Yeah, someone's flying a drone
(03:41):
there. He's got a full camera crew.
That that's I was that was in Thailand and that was just by
myself, Two's back sleeping. So I walked up to that high
point by myself and then you canset it to do things.
No. Yeah, it's really cool.
There's one, it's called a master shot, and it's like 2
minute everything. It does every single angle and
you just literally draw a box around yourself and it just
(04:03):
measures you how far you are, and then you just do it all
around you. It's so cool, like so many
different shots. Oh.
My God. Yeah, so only takes 2 minutes
and then you've got over 10 different shots, 10 different
angles. It's.
Incredible. It's so time safe.
I didn't realize until I was. I discovered it on that boulder
as well. Did you really?
But yeah, one of the first timesI used it.
That's an incredible shot. Yeah, it was crazy.
(04:26):
That was one what I was like, yeah, right.
I'm actually happy. Wait, so you've been there from
the start, Tallulah, going through all of these travels and
everything? Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, OK. I haven't seen every video and
there I've looked at a lot of them.
Are you in the videos or are youcompletely behind the scenes
some of. Them I'm in, some of them I'm
not, right. Depends what where we are or
what we're doing. But you've done even though
(04:46):
we're together, he's actually gone a lot of excursions on the
set. We've been together, yeah, we've
been together nearly five years.Oh, OK.
This is our first, not first, but our first backpacking trip
together, but I've done a few right on my own.
OK. Yeah.
And do you talk about this at all in the in, in the stuff
online or? You kind of get questions about
(05:07):
it, yeah, so. Yeah, there's and there's been
times when I've posted to Lula and people like, so some people
are like you said, you said you travel.
Yeah, that's what I was thinkingthrough this.
I was like, you're going to cop it for the whole travelling.
Cell I think people some people jump on and then after I
explained that Two's always beenthere and then but predominantly
(05:28):
up to this trip, everything was solo.
Yeah, when you're out doing those trips.
Everything was so right then. This big back backing trip has
been together, but everything prior to that has been solo.
Right. OK, Yeah, OK.
So now we'll go back to the start of it all.
So you you're 21 now. 21, yeah. 21 I saw a thing in an interview
(05:49):
just recently where someone was saying when they're talking
about how to tee up interview guests and which ones you should
take, and they were saying, I just love the term and I just
found it in my phone yesterday. I went, what did I write that in
there for? All I wrote was interested is
interesting. And then I went, Oh, that's
right. That's about the interview style
and guests you should get. And straight up is if, if I if
(06:12):
I'm interested or if anyone interviewing someone is
interested, it's going to be interesting.
There's you feed off that passion for whatever it
particular thing is, and I so I got yours.
I looked through your page and where and I was straight up just
like Oh my God this is so cool. Yeah.
Because I've, I've come to this thing recently where I feel like
(06:32):
there's no actual set rules on how you have to live your life
as far as you come out of school, you go into uni, you get
your job, you work hard, you marry someone, you have kids,
you have a mortgage, you don't have to.
No. We could sell our house right
now, buy one of those big buses and go and just go.
And but you've latched onto thisat like the age of 20 or
(06:55):
earlier. So I, I originally, we both went
to uni together and I dropped out.
But like, literally up until that moment, everything was you
have to go to uni, you have to get this job, you have to know
what you're doing. And I never knew.
That was one thing. After all, most young people,
they don't know what they're doing.
Yeah. And at my college, they just
pressured everyone to go to uni.No matter what you did.
(07:16):
They're just like, uni's on the cards.
They actually made everyone pay £30 to enroll, like you had to
pay. It was I, I'd never been to a
school, so I changed schools to something like, wow, I'd
originally been brought up on apprenticeships, so that was the
way I was inclined to go. And then it changed to uni
focused. And then I generally believed
that I wanted to go to uni. At one point I was like, I
(07:39):
really want to do it. Then I got there and was like,
this isn't for me. Yeah.
What? Were you doing?
Sports and exercise science, yeah, OK.
And there was no sport, actual physical sport.
It was just all yeah. Surprise.
Yeah. So it was just just full on
equations but it was in lockdownCOVID so I didn't have the full
uni experience which probably didn't add.
(08:00):
Oh yeah. Add to it.
What were you? Doing to other.
Journalism. Oh, OK, yeah.
Oh, right. She actually has done a podcast
like this for her degree with me, so she she knows this stuff
a little. Bit.
Wait, what? You've interviewed him.
Well, yeah, you had to interviewsomeone you didn't know, but
nobody. It was so hard to read.
You know, when it's not an actual established podcast, it's
just one they're not getting anyprobably anything from it.
(08:23):
So I'm trying to reach out to all these people and they're
like, no, no. So I'm going to have to ask him
if he, because this is before wehad loads of followers, but I
was like, come on, we have to pretend we didn't know each
other. So that's.
Right. OK, so you had to do a podcast.
Did you finish at all? Have you got a journalism
degree? Yeah.
OK. Does that help with what you
what you guys are doing with allthe socials and all that?
(08:46):
So there's so many, there's been, it's probably come into
hand more than we've realised. Oh yeah.
So many times when I've been reached out to and they've asked
for like A blog post. Yeah.
And I'll be like, I'll, I'll tryand write 1.
And then they'll just be like, you need to change this, this,
this and put it into a nice order.
So it's helped in that way, but it's also helped with the way
(09:08):
I've like reaching into a different because I was solely
focused on Instagram and trying to build it on Instagram.
But too, it was like, no, you need to do these, you need to
reach out to these blogs. So there was one that she did
really help me land was CNN, Yeah.
Your face, you're like, have youever heard of CNN?
(09:31):
You said it like I said it to you with the Burgesses.
Yeah. Actually, I went in with more
confidence with the Burgesses. You're talking about CNN like
it's an auntie of yours from over in the UK.
That I might know. Yeah.
Yeah, she too helped me write anarticle about inter railing and
I because I didn't know what CNNwants, that's why.
(09:53):
Right. OK, got it.
It'll help me with an article toput in there, which, yeah, I you
were probably more. I mean if you asked me to define
CNNI wouldn't be able. To CNN trouble.
I would. Is it like BBC of the of
America? Yeah.
I don't know. It's probably very wrong, but
it's a major news network, you know?
Yeah, yeah. OK.
And so you wrote a blog for them.
(10:14):
Yeah, about entering and to helpme with that.
So yeah. OK, is that a paid thing?
Do they pay you for an article or no?
How about that was quite early on.
So that's. More It'll help people find you.
Yeah, yeah. And it was like 1 to put on the
LinkedIn to show. OK, so going back again to the
So you came out of you dropped out of uni, boy.
(10:34):
The girl from the other side of the tracks.
Her parents would be happy aboutthat.
Oh, great. Now he's dropped out of uni.
What's his plans? He's gonna travel around.
Oh, great. What a catch.
What? You put it like.
Alright, so then, so where did the where did this come from?
At some point, from what I've read online and what I was
saying, you, you, you're workinga nine to five job.
(10:56):
Yeah, so it it stems so recently, so in the last year
it's been a nine to five job that enabled me to save for this
trip. Yes, taking it all the way back.
I dropped out of uni and I had some money leftover student loan
and I I generally didn't know what to do.
And I was sat with my dad and hewas like, why didn't you go
away? And I was like, go like by
(11:18):
myself. And he was like, yeah, why don't
you do it? And I was like, let me ask my
friends 1st And they, it was literally the September.
So they've all just started backat uni.
And I made the daft choice. And I was like, do you want to
come on a trip? And they all said, no, we've got
uni. Like we could have done that in
the summer. And then I booked a I return
five day trip to Rome. Oh yeah, by myself.
(11:38):
And that's when I went and I didthe whole solo travel thing for
the first time. Did.
You film that. No, this was actually wasn't for
this, just a trip. Yeah, I did film bits because I
was like, Oh my word, I'm on my by myself.
This is quite cool. Yeah.
But there were times on that trip where I was like kind of
regretting it. And I didn't love the whole solo
travel thing at that point. Yeah, I wouldn't.
Yeah, and I don't think but the way the way my passion for
(12:03):
travel started was in uni, I wasactually hooked on during COVID,
I was creating, I had an Instagram and it was posting
pictures of these amazing destinations that weren't my
pictures, but just all over the world.
The top 10 things to do in theseplaces.
Oh yeah. What to see.
So kind of being like a little guidebook on Instagram for
(12:24):
people. So why were you doing that?
To grow an Instagram following. That was to grow on Instagram,
but I never knew I wanted to do it personally.
Might show my face thing. Yeah.
So I started doing posting that and then I was like, this
actually helped people. Like people were saying, oh,
this is so helpful. And then I was like, maybe if I
go I can change it to me. It's interesting when you say
that. That is what I'm finding and
(12:47):
it's not necessarily the way I've been doing it from the
start. But as far as content goes, if
you're giving, if you're, you'regiving something that people can
take away from it and that it can help them or something.
It's that savable, shareable content where someone sees
something, goes Oh my God, look at that this place and sends it
to their friend. That's what will get pushed out
more and you'd be discovering all of this stuff.
(13:08):
It's it's the saves that the saves on Instagram like just.
Yeah. Skyrocket sometimes.
So somebody, so when you were first doing that and you're
putting this content out, was that with the mind to this could
be my job or I could make money from Instagram?
Yeah, So I'd heard a lot of people making these.
They're called they. Well, they used to be mean
(13:28):
pages, and then it turned into atheme page.
Yeah. They were building up a
following. And then people would come and
say, I'll offer you the year, this XY and Z amount of money.
And then I will be like, oh, if that's the right price, I would
sell off and then start again and make a new one.
And then it's just to. Buy your Instagram channel.
To buy the Instagram. So that was a way to because
then people can then because if you build up enough, you can
(13:51):
actually then get people to start advertising on your page
like travel companies can advertise.
So I never got to that point, but I did have offers of not not
much, but. Not enough to.
Not enough to. Walk away and start again with a
new one, yeah. The goal was to build it up and
then sell it and just to earn a bit of side cash for uni.
That was the main goal. Yeah, OK, but but it took way
(14:12):
too much of my time. What age were you when you were
doing that 18? 19 so that's.
Pretty early in the whole in what's happening now and.
The reason I did that is becauseI hadn't travelled, I hadn't
seen the world so. Posting all these post images of
places and you're like, that'd be nice, yeah.
That's what I was hoping. For and then so did you go and
(14:32):
get a job to save up the money to do the travelling?
So I then when I dropped out, I did that trip and then I came
back and I worked at Asda, whichis a supermarket in the UK,
which is it's. Like a Walmart chain.
Walmart. It's a Walmart chain so I got a
job there and then worked for from the November to the July.
(14:53):
How? Does this all time with COVID
timing so. This is the year after COVID.
So after lockdowns, at the end of everything, then you went
into working saving up and were you saving like everything for
this? Quite a lot because I'm
fortunate enough to live at homewith parents, so there was no
money going out on rent or food.The only money that was really
going out was if I wanted to do something fun in that time.
(15:14):
So there wasn't a lot of money going out, but I was set on
going inter railing. That was my first like big thing
to say for was inter railing. So for those over this side that
don't know what that is, that's the train that goes between all
the countries. My wife and I did that trip.
We did a trip around 100 years ago.
We went on around the world tripand when we got to the UK, we we
(15:37):
did that. We went.
So we would travel. The train had leave in the
evening, and we'd wake up the next morning in Rome.
Yeah. And we'd spend all of that day
and then one night and then all of the next day.
And then we jump back on the train and then we wake up in
Venice. Yeah.
And then we spend all of that day and the night and then all
of the next day and then jump back on the train.
Yeah. And the sleeper carriages.
Yeah. What a way to see it.
(15:58):
Yeah. That was honestly one of my best
things I've ever done, Yeah. Just hopping on trains, hopping
off when you want, yeah. Mildly terrifying.
The thing in the middle of the night when you cross borders and
they come knocking on your door.Yeah, there's a whole thing of
someone coming into your cabin in the middle of the night.
That's scary. The first sleeper sleeper cabin
I did was from Poland was Krakowto Budapest in Hungary and I was
(16:21):
staying in, I wasn't by myself. I was staying with two, a couple
from I think it was Estonia, like far Eastern Europe and they
were lovely people. So, but I did, I didn't really
sleep because I was so nervous because you got your bags out
and there's like anyone could just come in.
Yeah, I was nervous, yeah. And that was like when I was one
(16:43):
of the first trains I took as well.
OK. So it's pretty nerve wracking.
So he went off on that first trip.
Did you film that stuff? When did you start?
OK, when did you start filming and putting things on Instagram
it? Was after that.
Majorca So we went on holiday toMajorca and it was more of my
videography just with my phone. So it's like documenting the
(17:04):
place. It wasn't me say providing tips
or OK, but I changed that's whenit originally changed to Kofi
travels. And that was this is me, this is
my face and I want to provide content for you guys because I
was actually able to travel at this point.
So which was nice from going from a uni room posting these
pictures of places I. Would like.
(17:24):
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I'll start off with your names. Don't know that I'll ever get
another Kofi and Tallulah in theband.
No, you probably. Won't and I do.
You never know. Kofi isn't Kofi Annan, Yeah.
That's who I was named after. No way.
Yeah, I don't know who Kofi Annan is.
I just know the name, yeah. So he.
Was you better know everything. I know, I know a little.
He was a So he's part of the US Army or military and he was like
(00:27):
a United Nations, like peace leader, yes.
So part of the UN right so. And your parents decided to name
their baby after. Yeah, that guy.
So people ask, am I Ghanaian? No, I'm not Ghanaian because
Kofi means born on a Friday in Ghana.
In Ghana. What day were you born on
Monday. OK, so a good start.
(00:49):
Yeah, I know. We've we've picked this name for
him. Just got to hold on for four
more days. His name?
'S not. Going to make.
Sense and then they just must have had a liking towards yeah,
yeah. Because my grandpa was in the
RAF and he's from originally from Trinidad, so my mum's from
Trinidad. So I don't know if that's got
(01:11):
anything to do with it. Ever met another Kofi on your
travels? I haven't met another Kofi.
I haven't on my travels. I haven't met another Kofi
weirdly in the town Tallulah lives in.
Really. And we actually went to the same
school for about a year. 2 Kofis.
Two kofis in one school it was. Funny.
Now, Tallulah, where do you comeinto this?
Just. I haven't even gotten to what
(01:31):
he's doing yet. But I'm his girlfriend, right?
So we've been scared. I didn't know that was my way of
getting around asking. You might be his sister.
You might be a random he just met yesterday.
Just followed him. But hang on, you've got the same
accent. Yeah, we are from the same area,
like Cheshire is the area, but Cheshire.
(01:52):
Cheshire is where to us from is a more affluent bit more posh.
Oh. She's a bit.
Fancy. Yeah, she's a bit fancy.
Yeah, and I'm from the working. Class, but you travel all around
the world doing all this stuff. I just want to get the where the
two of you because I wasn't expecting a Tallulah.
No. I don't know that anyone ever
is. Where did your name come from?
My mom loved Bugsy Malone. I didn't even watch Bugsy
(02:14):
Malone. No, but I do know my name is
Tallulah. Literally.
Just that she loved that film. That's them now I'm Tallulah.
Wow, you happy with your name? I wasn't for a long time.
I've got you guys. In here, have not spoken yet at
all about the travel stuff. I'm just unpacking your names,
(02:37):
getting the lay of the land. So did you ever want to change
your name by deed poll? But I don't think I'll that far.
But yeah, I I just remember thembeing like, what an unusual
name. When I was younger, I used to
think that was they were like trying to say that they hated my
name. But now I understand what.
Were they though? Yeah, I think they love it.
Yeah, maybe they were. A great name, yeah okay, so
(03:00):
you're both from the same area, yeah so how Long's the travel
thing been happening from when you left to start the.
So just over four months for this trip.
To Lula been part of that through or oh, you've.
Done this. You've done this part together?
Yeah. You're the one behind the
camera. Yeah.
You flying the drone? No, that's me.
(03:20):
That's him. No, it's not, but because.
One of those it's on like a. You can set it to automatic
travel so you can just track yourself.
There's a shot where you go out onto some, out onto a big
boulder kind of thing, and then the camera goes past and over
the beautiful water and stuff and I'm like, he's I thought he
was travelling alone. Yeah, someone's flying a drone
(03:41):
there. He's got a full camera crew.
That that's I was that was in Thailand and that was just by
myself, Two's back sleeping. So I walked up to that high
point by myself and then you canset it to do things.
No. Yeah, it's really cool.
There's one, it's called a master shot, and it's like 2
minute everything. It does every single angle and
you just literally draw a box around yourself and it just
(04:03):
measures you how far you are, and then you just do it all
around you. It's so cool, like so many
different shots. Oh.
My God. Yeah, so only takes 2 minutes
and then you've got over 10 different shots, 10 different
angles. It's.
Incredible. It's so time safe.
I didn't realize until I was. I discovered it on that boulder
as well. Did you really?
But yeah, one of the first timesI used it.
That's an incredible shot. Yeah, it was crazy.
(04:26):
That was one what I was like, yeah, right.
I'm actually happy. Wait, so you've been there from
the start, Tallulah, going through all of these travels and
everything? Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, OK. I haven't seen every video and
there I've looked at a lot of them.
Are you in the videos or are youcompletely behind the scenes
some of. Them I'm in, some of them I'm
not, right. Depends what where we are or
what we're doing. But you've done even though
(04:46):
we're together, he's actually gone a lot of excursions on the
set. We've been together, yeah, we've
been together nearly five years.Oh, OK.
This is our first, not first, but our first backpacking trip
together, but I've done a few right on my own.
OK. Yeah.
And do you talk about this at all in the in, in the stuff
online or? You kind of get questions about
(05:07):
it, yeah, so. Yeah, there's and there's been
times when I've posted to Lula and people like, so some people
are like you said, you said you travel.
Yeah, that's what I was thinkingthrough this.
I was like, you're going to cop it for the whole travelling.
Cell I think people some people jump on and then after I
explained that Two's always beenthere and then but predominantly
(05:28):
up to this trip, everything was solo.
Yeah, when you're out doing those trips.
Everything was so right then. This big back backing trip has
been together, but everything prior to that has been solo.
Right. OK, Yeah, OK.
So now we'll go back to the start of it all.
So you you're 21 now. 21, yeah. 21 I saw a thing in an interview
(05:49):
just recently where someone was saying when they're talking
about how to tee up interview guests and which ones you should
take, and they were saying, I just love the term and I just
found it in my phone yesterday. I went, what did I write that in
there for? All I wrote was interested is
interesting. And then I went, Oh, that's
right. That's about the interview style
and guests you should get. And straight up is if, if I if
(06:12):
I'm interested or if anyone interviewing someone is
interested, it's going to be interesting.
There's you feed off that passion for whatever it
particular thing is, and I so I got yours.
I looked through your page and where and I was straight up just
like Oh my God this is so cool. Yeah.
Because I've, I've come to this thing recently where I feel like
(06:32):
there's no actual set rules on how you have to live your life
as far as you come out of school, you go into uni, you get
your job, you work hard, you marry someone, you have kids,
you have a mortgage, you don't have to.
No. We could sell our house right
now, buy one of those big buses and go and just go.
And but you've latched onto thisat like the age of 20 or
(06:55):
earlier. So I, I originally, we both went
to uni together and I dropped out.
But like, literally up until that moment, everything was you
have to go to uni, you have to get this job, you have to know
what you're doing. And I never knew.
That was one thing. After all, most young people,
they don't know what they're doing.
Yeah. And at my college, they just
pressured everyone to go to uni.No matter what you did.
(07:16):
They're just like, uni's on the cards.
They actually made everyone pay £30 to enroll, like you had to
pay. It was I, I'd never been to a
school, so I changed schools to something like, wow, I'd
originally been brought up on apprenticeships, so that was the
way I was inclined to go. And then it changed to uni
focused. And then I generally believed
that I wanted to go to uni. At one point I was like, I
(07:39):
really want to do it. Then I got there and was like,
this isn't for me. Yeah.
What? Were you doing?
Sports and exercise science, yeah, OK.
And there was no sport, actual physical sport.
It was just all yeah. Surprise.
Yeah. So it was just just full on
equations but it was in lockdownCOVID so I didn't have the full
uni experience which probably didn't add.
(08:00):
Oh yeah. Add to it.
What were you? Doing to other.
Journalism. Oh, OK, yeah.
Oh, right. She actually has done a podcast
like this for her degree with me, so she she knows this stuff
a little. Bit.
Wait, what? You've interviewed him.
Well, yeah, you had to interviewsomeone you didn't know, but
nobody. It was so hard to read.
You know, when it's not an actual established podcast, it's
just one they're not getting anyprobably anything from it.
(08:23):
So I'm trying to reach out to all these people and they're
like, no, no. So I'm going to have to ask him
if he, because this is before wehad loads of followers, but I
was like, come on, we have to pretend we didn't know each
other. So that's.
Right. OK, so you had to do a podcast.
Did you finish at all? Have you got a journalism
degree? Yeah.
OK. Does that help with what you
what you guys are doing with allthe socials and all that?
(08:46):
So there's so many, there's been, it's probably come into
hand more than we've realised. Oh yeah.
So many times when I've been reached out to and they've asked
for like A blog post. Yeah.
And I'll be like, I'll, I'll tryand write 1.
And then they'll just be like, you need to change this, this,
this and put it into a nice order.
So it's helped in that way, but it's also helped with the way
(09:08):
I've like reaching into a different because I was solely
focused on Instagram and trying to build it on Instagram.
But too, it was like, no, you need to do these, you need to
reach out to these blogs. So there was one that she did
really help me land was CNN, Yeah.
Your face, you're like, have youever heard of CNN?
(09:31):
You said it like I said it to you with the Burgesses.
Yeah. Actually, I went in with more
confidence with the Burgesses. You're talking about CNN like
it's an auntie of yours from over in the UK.
That I might know. Yeah.
Yeah, she too helped me write anarticle about inter railing and
I because I didn't know what CNNwants, that's why.
(09:53):
Right. OK, got it.
It'll help me with an article toput in there, which, yeah, I you
were probably more. I mean if you asked me to define
CNNI wouldn't be able. To CNN trouble.
I would. Is it like BBC of the of
America? Yeah.
I don't know. It's probably very wrong, but
it's a major news network, you know?
Yeah, yeah. OK.
And so you wrote a blog for them.
(10:14):
Yeah, about entering and to helpme with that.
So yeah. OK, is that a paid thing?
Do they pay you for an article or no?
How about that was quite early on.
So that's. More It'll help people find you.
Yeah, yeah. And it was like 1 to put on the
LinkedIn to show. OK, so going back again to the
So you came out of you dropped out of uni, boy.
(10:34):
The girl from the other side of the tracks.
Her parents would be happy aboutthat.
Oh, great. Now he's dropped out of uni.
What's his plans? He's gonna travel around.
Oh, great. What a catch.
What? You put it like.
Alright, so then, so where did the where did this come from?
At some point, from what I've read online and what I was
saying, you, you, you're workinga nine to five job.
(10:56):
Yeah, so it it stems so recently, so in the last year
it's been a nine to five job that enabled me to save for this
trip. Yes, taking it all the way back.
I dropped out of uni and I had some money leftover student loan
and I I generally didn't know what to do.
And I was sat with my dad and hewas like, why didn't you go
away? And I was like, go like by
(11:18):
myself. And he was like, yeah, why don't
you do it? And I was like, let me ask my
friends 1st And they, it was literally the September.
So they've all just started backat uni.
And I made the daft choice. And I was like, do you want to
come on a trip? And they all said, no, we've got
uni. Like we could have done that in
the summer. And then I booked a I return
five day trip to Rome. Oh yeah, by myself.
(11:38):
And that's when I went and I didthe whole solo travel thing for
the first time. Did.
You film that. No, this was actually wasn't for
this, just a trip. Yeah, I did film bits because I
was like, Oh my word, I'm on my by myself.
This is quite cool. Yeah.
But there were times on that trip where I was like kind of
regretting it. And I didn't love the whole solo
travel thing at that point. Yeah, I wouldn't.
Yeah, and I don't think but the way the way my passion for
(12:03):
travel started was in uni, I wasactually hooked on during COVID,
I was creating, I had an Instagram and it was posting
pictures of these amazing destinations that weren't my
pictures, but just all over the world.
The top 10 things to do in theseplaces.
Oh yeah. What to see.
So kind of being like a little guidebook on Instagram for
(12:24):
people. So why were you doing that?
To grow an Instagram following. That was to grow on Instagram,
but I never knew I wanted to do it personally.
Might show my face thing. Yeah.
So I started doing posting that and then I was like, this
actually helped people. Like people were saying, oh,
this is so helpful. And then I was like, maybe if I
go I can change it to me. It's interesting when you say
that. That is what I'm finding and
(12:47):
it's not necessarily the way I've been doing it from the
start. But as far as content goes, if
you're giving, if you're, you'regiving something that people can
take away from it and that it can help them or something.
It's that savable, shareable content where someone sees
something, goes Oh my God, look at that this place and sends it
to their friend. That's what will get pushed out
more and you'd be discovering all of this stuff.
(13:08):
It's it's the saves that the saves on Instagram like just.
Yeah. Skyrocket sometimes.
So somebody, so when you were first doing that and you're
putting this content out, was that with the mind to this could
be my job or I could make money from Instagram?
Yeah, So I'd heard a lot of people making these.
They're called they. Well, they used to be mean
(13:28):
pages, and then it turned into atheme page.
Yeah. They were building up a
following. And then people would come and
say, I'll offer you the year, this XY and Z amount of money.
And then I will be like, oh, if that's the right price, I would
sell off and then start again and make a new one.
And then it's just to. Buy your Instagram channel.
To buy the Instagram. So that was a way to because
then people can then because if you build up enough, you can
(13:51):
actually then get people to start advertising on your page
like travel companies can advertise.
So I never got to that point, but I did have offers of not not
much, but. Not enough to.
Not enough to. Walk away and start again with a
new one, yeah. The goal was to build it up and
then sell it and just to earn a bit of side cash for uni.
That was the main goal. Yeah, OK, but but it took way
(14:12):
too much of my time. What age were you when you were
doing that 18? 19 so that's.
Pretty early in the whole in what's happening now and.
The reason I did that is becauseI hadn't travelled, I hadn't
seen the world so. Posting all these post images of
places and you're like, that'd be nice, yeah.
That's what I was hoping. For and then so did you go and
(14:32):
get a job to save up the money to do the travelling?
So I then when I dropped out, I did that trip and then I came
back and I worked at Asda, whichis a supermarket in the UK,
which is it's. Like a Walmart chain.
Walmart. It's a Walmart chain so I got a
job there and then worked for from the November to the July.
(14:53):
How? Does this all time with COVID
timing so. This is the year after COVID.
So after lockdowns, at the end of everything, then you went
into working saving up and were you saving like everything for
this? Quite a lot because I'm
fortunate enough to live at homewith parents, so there was no
money going out on rent or food.The only money that was really
going out was if I wanted to do something fun in that time.
(15:14):
So there wasn't a lot of money going out, but I was set on
going inter railing. That was my first like big thing
to say for was inter railing. So for those over this side that
don't know what that is, that's the train that goes between all
the countries. My wife and I did that trip.
We did a trip around 100 years ago.
We went on around the world tripand when we got to the UK, we we
(15:37):
did that. We went.
So we would travel. The train had leave in the
evening, and we'd wake up the next morning in Rome.
Yeah. And we'd spend all of that day
and then one night and then all of the next day.
And then we jump back on the train and then we wake up in
Venice. Yeah.
And then we spend all of that day and the night and then all
of the next day and then jump back on the train.
Yeah. And the sleeper carriages.
Yeah. What a way to see it.
(15:58):
Yeah. That was honestly one of my best
things I've ever done, Yeah. Just hopping on trains, hopping
off when you want, yeah. Mildly terrifying.
The thing in the middle of the night when you cross borders and
they come knocking on your door.Yeah, there's a whole thing of
someone coming into your cabin in the middle of the night.
That's scary. The first sleeper sleeper cabin
I did was from Poland was Krakowto Budapest in Hungary and I was
(16:21):
staying in, I wasn't by myself. I was staying with two, a couple
from I think it was Estonia, like far Eastern Europe and they
were lovely people. So, but I did, I didn't really
sleep because I was so nervous because you got your bags out
and there's like anyone could just come in.
Yeah, I was nervous, yeah. And that was like when I was one
(16:43):
of the first trains I took as well.
OK. So it's pretty nerve wracking.
So he went off on that first trip.
Did you film that stuff? When did you start?
OK, when did you start filming and putting things on Instagram
it? Was after that.
Majorca So we went on holiday toMajorca and it was more of my
videography just with my phone. So it's like documenting the
(17:04):
place. It wasn't me say providing tips
or OK, but I changed that's whenit originally changed to Kofi
travels. And that was this is me, this is
my face and I want to provide content for you guys because I
was actually able to travel at this point.
So which was nice from going from a uni room posting these
pictures of places I. Would like.
(17:24):
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