“Go West, life is peaceful there” – Pet Shop Boys. In December 2024, Marek Bladowski and I had a wild dream to backpack to the western most point of Saharan Africa. What even is that?…
“Maybe somewhere down the road when somebody plays (at the end of the line)” – The Travelling Wilburys. I had backpacked quickly through the Mauritanian oceanside city of Nouadhibou in 2022 after completing the textbook…
Backpacking In Mauritania 🇲🇷: Camping ⛺️By The Atlantic Ocean 🌊 At Villa Maguela In Nouadhibou I’ve camped out so many times in my life that I’d forgotten the charm of it the last few years.…
“Runaway train never going back. Wrong way on a one way track” – Soul Asylum. Having watched many Michael Palin documentaries down the years, I always envied his journeys. He did them in mostly pre-internet…