“What you see is what you get. You’ve made your bed, you better lie in it” – The Jam (Going Underground). Riding on the Pyongyang Metro System is oddly a highlight from your visit to North Korea’s lively capital city and indeed made it into my top 99 things to do when backpacking Pyongyang. Forget Read more about Revival to Glory: Riding on the Pyongyang Metro, North Korea[…]
Getting to and from airports is something I have got used to as a long term traveller but there is something that still annoys me to be honest. That is that most people I have met simply get off a flight, hop in the first taxi they see and head to their hotel. It makes me cringe. Read more about Tuesday’s Travel Essentials: Getting To and From Airports[…]
Believe it or not, but until recently I had never done tandem cycling before! You might have read my adventures cycling in places like Montevideo, Soweto and Taiwan, but China was the place where my girlfriend and I first hopped on a tandem bicycle! We were backpacking in the Guangxi Province of China and staying Read more about Tandem Cycling In Yangshuo, Guangxi Province, China[…]
As a child I loved car ferries. It was something I could do internally in my home country of Northern Ireland from Portaferry to Strangford. Indeed the Strangford to Portaferry service still runs daily! As a child and teenager I went on a few family holidays on car ferries to Scotland, England, Wales and France Read more about Working Wednesdays: Working on Ferries and Cruise Ships[…]
The joys of travel continue for me and I’m fascinated by the decoration of passports to the point where I almost prefer to have a full page visa on there than a measly stamp. Just because like a kid I still get excited every time I enter a new country! From the 73 countries I’ve Read more about Getting An Ethiopian Visa at Addis Ababa Airport, Ethiopia[…]
On today’s Tuesday’s Travel Essentials I’m talking about leaving your car at airports. It’s something that families do a lot and it might surprise you to know that I have owned two cars in my lifetime, and frequently used the easy option of parking at airports (I’ve even slept in my car at an airport!). Read more about Tuesday’s Travel Essentials: Leaving Your Car at Airports[…]
Having used Hong Kong as my base for the last couple of years, I have made countless trips into China, covering a few of them in detail on here: 1. Hong Kong to China (Kwun Tong to Huanggang) 2. Hong Kong to Macao (by ferry) 3. Hong Kong to China (Hung Hom to Guangzhou) 4. Read more about World Borders: Getting the Hong Kong to Zhuhai Ferry (“A Fast Boat to China”!!)[…]
** STOP PRESS!! This article was written a while back and scheduled long before this week’s fire on the Belfast to Dublin train, so please bear that in mind…** (this is the first time since starting DSL in 2007 I have had to do this…) // I’m sure a lot of you reading will be Read more about World Borders: How to get from Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland (Belfast to Dublin train)[…]