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Backpacking in Africa Jonny Blair

Friday’s Featured Food: Cooked Chicken, Rice and Salad At Tentadora Restaurant, São Tomé, São Tome And Principe 🇸🇹

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Despite having taken over 10,000 Food photographs on my travels, I am definitely not a food freak, geek or blogger but I sometimes feel the need to cover some of my meals on Friday’s Featured Food. In São Tome E Principe, I visited Bobo Forro, Trinidade, São Tome (the capital city), Porto Allegre, São Joao Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Cooked Chicken, Rice and Salad At Tentadora Restaurant, São Tomé, São Tome And Principe 🇸🇹[…]

How To Get A Cameroon Multiple Entry Tourist Visa Online

How To Get A Cameroon🇨🇲Multiple Entry Tourist Visa Online

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“Round this town, you’ve ceased to be. That’s what you get for sleeping with the enemy” – Noel Gallagher. It was a childhood dream of mine to visit Cameroon. It was a long hard road since Benjamin Massing’s red card of 1990. It was easy for the Indomitable Lions to beat Diego Maradona’s mighty World Read more about How To Get A Cameroon🇨🇲Multiple Entry Tourist Visa Online[…]

Backpacking In Cameroon 🇨🇲: Top 10 Sights In Douala

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“He’s the only swinger in town” – UK Commentator on the Roger Milla corner flag celebration (1990) While Douala isn’t Cameroon’s capital city per se, nor is it Roger Milla’s birthtown, it certainly has a capital city vibe. To all intents and purposes, this feels like a capital and indeed it serves at Cameroon’s seaport Read more about Backpacking In Cameroon 🇨🇲: Top 10 Sights In Douala[…]

Friday’s Featured Food: Local Fish, Rice and Vegetable Stew at Papa Figo, São Tomé, São Tome And Principe 🇸🇹

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After arriving into Sao Tome from Gabon, and getting a stamp on arrival (no visa needed for me at the time), I was backpacking here in São Tome E Principe. My first port of call was my excellent “Writer’s Lair” at Casa De Ferias. I rested here in this lovely abode whilst making onward plans. Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Local Fish, Rice and Vegetable Stew at Papa Figo, São Tomé, São Tome And Principe 🇸🇹[…]

Backpacking In São Tome And Principe 🇸🇹: A Random Visit To Bobo Forro – Top 4 Sights

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“There we were; now here we are” – Noel Gallagher. After a wild month, which was supposed to be a quiet one (March 2024), saw me visit Poland, Italy, Romania, Moldova, Gagauzia, Belgium, Morocco, Cameroon and Gabon, I ended up landing in São Tome, capital of São Tome And Principe. I was tired but got Read more about Backpacking In São Tome And Principe 🇸🇹: A Random Visit To Bobo Forro – Top 4 Sights[…]

Backpacking in São Tomé and Príncipe🇸🇹: My Journey To The Exact Centre Of The World at Ilheu Das Rolas

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“Laughing at the stoney face of gloom when your turn comes round” – Neil Finn. This was a wild one. Life doesn’t get any easier; backpacking doesn’t get any more fun; travel blogging doesn’t get any cooler. This is actually as good as it gets without any need for me to retire, for now. I Read more about Backpacking in São Tomé and Príncipe🇸🇹: My Journey To The Exact Centre Of The World at Ilheu Das Rolas[…]

I'm in Gabon on my Birthday!

Backpacking In Gabon: How I Fluked A Visa On Arrival As A Birthday Surprise In Libreville

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“Oh my starry eyed surprise, sundown to sunrise, dance all night, we’re gonna dance all night, dance all night to this DJ” – Paul Oakenfold. First up, I wasn’t even meant to be in Gabon. I need a visa for Gabon as a Northern Irish citizen, and even after booking connecting flights in a frenzy, Read more about Backpacking In Gabon: How I Fluked A Visa On Arrival As A Birthday Surprise In Libreville[…]

Backpacking in Sao Tome: Top 5 Sights In Trinidade

Backpacking in São Tomé and Príncipe 🇸🇹: Top 4 Sights In Trinidade

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“Would you stay on standby? Because I need another alibi” – Shed Seven. Whackpacking at São Tomé away probably changed my life; again. Well, firstly there was my excellent Writer’s Lair at Casa De Ferias with my host Bernilda, and almost getting stranded in Africa again. I got through it and returned to the calm Read more about Backpacking in São Tomé and Príncipe 🇸🇹: Top 4 Sights In Trinidade[…]