A recent conversation with a mate sparked the whole “are physical books dead?” debate and while I disagreed, we did admit that travelling light means bunging e-Books into your hard drive storage and laptop. And a few of my travel blogging buddies have released some awesome e-Books the last few years. I’ve read these all Read more about Top 10 Travel eBooks To Buy[…]
It’s time for another awesome book review and I’m delighted to feature one from two fellow travellers, globertrotters and writers. Lisa Niver Rajna and George Rajna run the fantastic site We Said Go Travel and I also interviewed them on my World Travellers Series earlier in the year. Both Lisa and George are members of Read more about Book Review: Traveling in Sin by Lisa and George[…]
This week has been your usual epic week of travel in my lifestyle and something got me thinking again. It was something I said to myself I was going to do back in 2003 when I first left Northern Ireland. I hate being alone (unless I’m working on something) and I love being around people. Read more about Sunday’s Inspiration: Make As Many Friends As You Can[…]
Time for another inspiring travel interview in my World Travellers Series. Today we meet Brian Barry and Noelle Kelly – a cool Irish couple on the road since 2009, sharing their stories and wisdom here on Don’t Stop Living and through their own site Wandering On. Who are you? We are an Irish couple, Brian Read more about World Travellers: Brian and Noelle from Wandering On[…]
You’ll forgive me for a personal and long awaited random blog post, I hope. Kandy is a city in Sri Lanka. Its the second biggest one in the country none the less and I headed there on my tour of the island earlier in 2013. Sometimes in life though, you don’t bother to see all Read more about Kandy, Sri Lanka: Such A Joy To Me[…]
Having featured Azerbaijan and the town of Seki in yesterday’s “Thirsty Thursdays”, today it’s time for an Azerbaijani food. I tried a lot of different local food while backpacking in Azerbaijan and found most of it to be average, or below average. That doesn’t mean I won’t write about it though. I headed to the Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Khangal at Sehrli Tandir, Baku, Azerbaijan[…]
It’s off to Azerbaijan for today’s Thirsty Thursdays and a relaxing sober moment for a change. I haven’t had a lot of time to relax recently, but this was an hour where myself and my girlfriend found time to chill out, in the city of Seki. Drinking hot tea in the October sunshine. Explain Seki Read more about Thirsty Thursdays: Drinking Tea in Seki Square, Azerbaijan[…]
OK so down the years, I’ve been on some crazy types of transport on my travels and some absolutely manic journeys: – Turbo Jet in New Zealand (world’s fastest speedboat) – Cruise Ship to Antarctica – Mini-bus to Harar, Ethiopia (broke down, killed a cow, got stopped by police, windscreen smashed, stopped off for 4 Read more about Crazy Mini-Bus/ Marshrutky from Stepanakert to Vank, Nagorno Karabakh[…]