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Travelling for a living can be a scary thing
Scams, screams and soldiers - that sums up my life as a 'professional tourist'
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Ronan O’Connell
I have accidentally angered Nepalese soldiers, scaled an active volcano in the dark in the Philippines, been trapped in a terrifying Chinese scam and faced my mortality on Indian mountainside roads.
A "professional tourist" like me does not have a plush job. Instead, my life - like travelling in a pandemic - is always unpredictable, sometimes unnerving, yet consistently enjoyable.
