Polkadot Passport
Nicola's travel and food blog with destination guides, photography tips and world recipes.
About Polkadot Passport
Polkadot Passport is a travel and food blog created and run by Nicola, an Aussie-born photographer and adventurer. She started the site in 2014 after choosing travel and photography over a conventional career path, and within six years had visited more than 50 countries and turned blogging into her full-time job. The site has grown to nearly 400 posts since its launch and publishes new content every few weeks, offering bucket-list experiences, detailed destination guides, travel photography tips and a longform recipe project. Articles routinely include Nicola's own photography rather than stock imagery.
What makes Polkadot Passport itself is Nicola's mix of travel photography and an obsessive appetite for food, both served in a very personable voice. The writing reads like a friendly, well-informed travel companion who can switch from practical, nitty-gritty guides - for example airport transfers in London - to wide-eyed bucketlist pieces such as seeing polar bears in Svalbard. The site also carries a fun throughline, a pandemic-born project to cook a dish from every country, which gives the blog a distinctive longterm hook. Content is practical, well photographed, and updated on a steady schedule of roughly a couple of posts a month.
Where They Travel
global
Pros
- Detailed, practical destination guides
- Strong travel photography and tips
- Ambitious global recipe series
- Steady publishing rhythm
Cons
- Pages include Mediavine ads
- Posting is roughly every few weeks
How Popular Is Polkadot Passport?
- Open PageRank2.8 / 10
- Best-of lists1