“You make me feel naked, undressing me with your eyes” – Louise Nurding. I omitted the words “Thirsty Thursdays” from the title only because the title would have been too long and cumbersome, but this was a wild one and it is a Thirsty Thursday post. The Perch Bar is legendary! It is a bar…
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“Little by little I gave you everything you ever dreamed of” – Noel Gallagher. German supermarket giant LIDL have opened their first ever PUB!! And they have opened it in a place I used to live – Dundonald, Belfast, Northern Ireland (for the record I lived at 24 Fort Road way back in 1999…). Here…
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Well the dream had been realised and that was when I finally landed in Cameroon in March 2024. After wanting and promising to visit it for years, the reality finally came! I went through the Cameroon Online Visa process and landed in Yaounde International Airport and then Douala International Airport. I was ready for football…
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“You should never fight your feelings. You have to follow nature’s law” – Embrace. I arrived into Dominica a little later than expected and it was really a crazy few days of whackpacking travel in December 2021. Here is why – I was backpacking in Dominica during the pandemic, after some truly personal struggles and…
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“The courtyard of my heart seems lonely” – Band Baaja Baaraat (song – Mitre). In a lot of countries, and cities I am in, I do love a quirky random pub visit – often I like to visit the oldest pub in a city. I have managed to do this in quite a few places…
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“Everyone’s changing; I stay the same” – The Corrs (2004). Sentimental journeys are no stranger to my wandering heart or backpack. Neil Finn said it long before I rode my weary soul onto the streets of Bournemouth Town in 1994…my first trip to the iconic seaside town…10 years later I’d be working in a bar…
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While I’m certainly not a food freak, a foodie, a food blogger or a fat bastard, I still run my Friday’s Featured Food series. This series started way back in 2012 when the blog became more specific and tailored. And so, in an attempt to backdate and foodpack my way through 5,000 plus meals from…
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“Stand by me; nobody knows the way it’s gonna be” – Noel Gallagher. I certainly didn’t go to Niger for a booze up or even to pub crawl it, nobody does that do they? But somehow in the madness of it all we actually still managed to drink in 5 different bars in 4 days…
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“Love’s a hide and hate display” – Nicky Wire. I never expected to visit 5 bars in the CAR, nevermind double figure it, but here we are, there we were. In my previous few countries – Niger I drinkpacked only 5 bars and in Burkina Faso just the 9, with Mauritania limited to 5 non-alcoholic…
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“Another year over; a new one just begun” – John Lennon. I found myself back in Ivory Coast at the end of 2024, and this is where Marek and I celebrated New Year’s Eve 2024 and New Year’s Day 2025. I had backpacked through Abidjan and Grand Bassam before, back in 2018. On that trip,…
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