How To Get A Sierra Leone Online Visa Sierra Leone was the last new country I visited in December 2023 on my West African journey, and my flight in was a late one, on Christmas night 2023. Sierra Leone, isn’t for the faint-hearted however and it was definitely a challenge to get here. Visas for Read more about How To Get A Sierra Leone 🇸🇱Online Visa[…]
“No pearls inside my oyster; just a world with no answers” – Ian McCullough. Growing up in the seaside city of Bangor definitely influenced me in wateric terms. I love the water, the ocean, the sea. Then again, I also lived in Belfast, Bournemouth, Poole, Dartford, London, Sydney, Gdańsk and The Kong hardly shy of Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Spicy Atlantic Oysters at Coqueiros, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau🇬🇼[…]
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 🔴✋️☘️[…]
“It’s coming home. It’s coming. Football’s coming home” – The Lightning Seeds. Sheffield FC are widely regarded as the oldest club in world football that have been continuously playing. They were formed in 1857 and as much as I hate FIFA, they are the governing body of world football and they recognise Sheffield FC as the world’s Read more about My Visit To The Home Of Football: Sheffield FC, England (Formed 1857)[…]
“I stare at the sky and it leaves me blind” – Manic Street Preachers. Backpacking Centurion was supposed to be a hat-trick, a trilogy. But Jonny Blair’s 100-country journey had too many stories for that. These are the uncut ones, or should I say the “cut ones”. They were left out for a reason and Read more about Finally Released: Backpacking Centurion: Volume 4 – The Black Volume[…]
“Maybe maybe it’s our nowhere towns” – Brett Anderson. In April 2018, I headed to The Hotel Show in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia with the Young Pioneer Tours crew. To get the visa that time, we were supposed to be “working” there. It was a really difficult visa to get, easiest the hardest visa getation of Read more about Backpacking in Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦: Seriously A Visa On Arrival in Dammam😂[…]
How To Get An Online Tourist Visa For Pakistan 🇵🇰 The more I travel, the more countries I swallow, the harder it all gets. That’s the way it goes. It doesn’t get easier. Don’t kid yourself. The reason for this uphill struggle is that usually the toughest visas to get are the ones left until Read more about How To Get An Online Tourist Visa For Pakistan 🇵🇰[…]
“But it’s too late, baby, now it’s too late” – Carole King. “Forever, ever delayed” – Richey James Edwards. “It’s a black fly in your Chardonnay” – Alanis Morrisette. Glory days unloyal here. Not everything in this life works out. We forfeit, we miss, regret and this was one. You see in September 2023 I Read more about Finally Backpacking In Abu Dhabi: 15 Years Too Late For “GlobCom”[…]