Backpacking in Guinea🇬🇳: This Is Africa’s Northern Ireland 🔴✋️☘️“Move closer; set my mind in fire” – Tim Wheeler. You know the drill when you grow up in the outside-monikered country called “troubled Northern Ireland”. You’re asked where you’re from and you tell everyone “I’m from Northern Ireland”. At least I did, I made a point Read more about Backpacking in Guinea🇬🇳: This Is Africa’s Northern Ireland 🔴✋️☘️[…]
“What you leave behind, you don’t miss anyway” – Paul Hewson. Friday 26th September 2003. That’s twenty years ago today. Madness. This was the day when life unknowingly all changed for me. It did for me and it could for you too and you will never expect that. I certainly wasn’t ready for a new Read more about 20 Years Ago Today: How My Life Changed Forever On Friday 26th September 2003[…]
“I don’t know what tune that the orchestra played but it went by me, sickly and sentimental” – Crowded House. Here I was, 203 countries deep into my wacaday adventure around the world and I was finally in The Isle of Man!! This lesser ventured country is the fifth closest country to my home country Read more about Backpacking In The Isle Of Man🇮🇲: My Stay At The Glen Mona Hotel[…]
Backpacking In Nepal: My Stay At The Hotel Green Horizon, Kathmandu My green vibe continued on my latest travels to Asia. On this trip to Asia, I visited two new countries on my journey – Pakistan and Nepal. I needed a visa for both – the Pakistan one I was able to get online (after Read more about Backpacking In Nepal🇳🇵: My Stay At The Hotel Green Horizon, Kathmandu[…]
Staying At the Rose🌹Palace🏰 Hotel🏨 In Lahore, Pakistan 🇵🇰 My first port of call in my final Stan was Lahore, in Pakistan. Whilst not the capital, this city is a pumping colossus of the Pakistani heart. The capital, Islamabad I was skipping, leaving it for another day. In Pakistan, I would visit the sights of Read more about Staying At the Rose🌹Palace🏰 Hotel🏨 In Lahore, Pakistan 🇵🇰[…]
“Stand in the place where you are” – Rapid Eye Movement. My first ever night in Kazakhstan was a cold and memorable one way back in December 2015. Life was pretty good then and I knew what I wanted. I was on a journey through the Stans (I’ve now visited them all) and on that Read more about Backpacking In Kazakhstan🇰🇿: Staying At The Hostel Bro, Astana[…]
“Illusion never changed into something real” – Natalie Imbruglia. 8 years ago, August 2015 sits high in my life of memories. After a 3 month detox/retox, I went backpacking in Bangladesh, I was loving it!! I was at an all time high…again. Malaga, SPAIN (April 2015) I write “again” because just 3 months before that Read more about Sunday’s Disillusion: Sea-wind, Re-wind, Re-start, De-start, Re-tox, De-tox (2015 – 2023)[…]
“All those people came from far in Zaïre, in Zaïre to see the rumble in the jungle there” – Johnny Wakelin. In 2019, I was backpacking in Africa and visiting a few new countries on that trip – Burundi, Democratic Republic of The Congo, Rwanda, Uganda and repeats to Kenya and Tanzania. After sorting out Read more about Backpacking In The Democratic Republic Of The Congo🇨🇩: Staying At Hotel Horizon In Bukavu[…]