When we travel sometimes we just get too carried away with the good things. It gets a bit ridiculous doesn’t it? I mean who really cares what the top 5 sights are in a city of a country? Who really cares which hostel is coolest to stay in? Nobody reads that sort of stuff and…
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“Stars about to fall, what do you say, Lyla” – Oasis. You’ll probably know that when I travel to a city or town in a country, I like nothing better than banging out a top 5 hit parade on backpacking sights. In most cases, we only visit these cities once in our life, so make…
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Torshavn is the capital city of the Faroe Islands. This small nation consists of a group of 18 islands and it’s north of Scotland and west of Norway. While the country is part of the Kingdom of Denmark, you won’t see many Danish flags here. This is a proud and patriotic country, a beautiful one…
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Iceland isn’t so much a “backpacker’s gem” as it is a traveller’s gem. For a start, it doesn’t border any other countries, so there’s no chance of backpacking there overland. Most people fly in and out, though some get a boat up there. I visited in 2007 as part of a football trip and spent…
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The city of Gloucester sits proud and unknown to most backpackers that venture to England. A few things have put this city on the map and there is no longer a need to neglect it. I didn’t, so you shouldn’t either. Gloucester is the capital city of the county of Gloucestershire. I was actually in…
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When you are backpacking in a country it is a cool idea, awesome in fact, to check out the top backpacking sights in some cities, towns or villages within that country. You will be totally inspired and you will love it. So if you are heading backpacking to country “x” (let’s called it Underbaijan, Countryonia,…
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It’s been such a long and crazy journey since my time backpacking in Taiwan, yet week after week I remind myself and pinch myself that I was really there. I think visiting Taiwan was the turning point in my travels. It was 2009 and though I’d been to China, Russia and Belarus before, it felt…
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It was a welcome and sentimental return to the island of Jersey recently as I headed to their capital city, St. Helier for a weekend. I stayed overlooking the sea, at the Ommaroo Hotel and I toured some of the sights I had missed out on during my first few visits to this mini island…
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I recently became the first tourist to go backpacking in Adammia, this is a rare and unknown country which borders England in the county of West Yorkshire. Once you are in Adammia, you will become aware that the country has five main Provinces – Tytannia, Maternia, Myway, Primoria and Watertopia. And a further two territories –…
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Bahrain’s capital city is Manama and it’s not an easy beast to negotiate with. It’s a scattered and somewhat disorganised city. If it sold its soul to capitalism a few years back, then you’ll work that one out instantly. Swanky shopping malls and 4 star hotels tower over old school street vendors as if dust…
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