Friday’s Featured Food returns this week and is fresh from my latest trip to Asia where I visited Pakistan. While based in Lahore, I pakpacked the sights of Lahore, headed to the India border to watch the famous Wagah Border Ceremony and headed to The Tomb of Jahangir in Shadarah Bagh. Here, on my second…
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The Palm Jumeirah is a man-made island that is shaped like a palm tree, located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It is a popular tourist destination, and one of the most iconic landmarks in Dubai. Among its many attractions is the View at The Palm, which offers visitors stunning panoramic views of the city and…
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Cappadocia is located in central Turkey, in the region of Anatolia. It is known for its unique and otherworldly landscape, which is characterized by fairy chimneys, underground cities, and cave dwellings. It is still an undervalued city but has a lot of hidden gems for tourists to experience. Cappadocia offers the tourists opportunities to create…
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“Spend your nightlife table hopping, trying to keep your bag of bones in trim” – Noel Gallagher. When travel used to be a thing, I loved the thrill of it all. I loved the crazy stuff, I needed even the sorrow amidst all that. The unrecognised countries, the secrets, the wacaday museums, the sadness at…
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Experienced whackpackers may not need to read this, but travel is individual and after getting my Iran visa in 2013, I spent a month whackpacking the country and loving it. Most of that, we did it ourselves and we got off the wheaten craic to places such as Yaseh Chah, Shahr e Kord, Mesr and…
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I probably should have written posts like this for years as these are the ones that people care about and are interested to read. But I was always too selfish to care, I wrote about where I went, what I saw, what I wanted to write. The Five Most Unusual and Quirky Places I Have…
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I don’t often get too political on here, being from Northern Ireland it’s a touchy subject but also one so eloquently intertwined intill my life. For those who have heard of Bobby Sands, you’ll be aware of this IRA prisoner who became famous as a hunger striker in 1981 in Northern Ireland. In the end…
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“Smiling as the shit comes down, you can tell a man from what he has to say” – Neil Finn. Everything’s amazing. Every single city in the world is awesome. Wow what a cool monument! Such an amazing church. Great Mosque there. Inspiring skyline. Delicious food. I call bull5hit. Not everything is that cool really…
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Officially I have been to the United Arab Emirates 5 times, but only 3 times did I actually leave the airport and get my stamps. In fact for a while, the UAE was destined to become the country I visited only through airports, especially given the crazy history I had with it. In 2008, at…
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“Although loneliness has always been a friend of mine, I’m leaving my life in your hands” – Backstreet Boys. The 25th June 1982 was a day to remember for the Northern Ireland football team. By no mere coincidence, and five years later than billed, on the 25th June 2020, I finally release the first volume…
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