**It’s time to retire my lovely forest green backpack!!** “Days that found you; grace that bound you” – Teenage Fanclub. General wear and tear, two snapped zips, one broken zip cord, a torn sleeve and more stains than a brothel’s bed, but this exact green backpack has successfully backpacked through 101 countries with me in…
Read MoreVolume 1 of the Backpacking Centurion series is available now in Poland, and is available to pre-order online via websites such as Amazon and Barnes and Noble. However, if you are in the USA or Canada, you can actually buy Volume 1 NOW online via BookBaby. It is also possible to buy it on BookBaby…
Read More During the pandemic, I was able to finally release my first solo printed book series (Backpacking Centurion), along the wayside, I forgot I already had appeared in 5 books before that. A hat-trick of E’s and a brace of printed ones. For today’s Working Wednesday, I thought I would put them all on one…
Read MoreThis is probably the most blatant bit of advertising in living history on Don’t Stop Living, but I will tell you it’s only for fun and I only make 10% of the cost of these orders – other companies take the rest (except my e-Books). Last year I launched a mini Don’t Stop Living shop…
Read MoreI’m always on the lookout for exciting online ideas and websites that can enhance our lives. For anyone keen to edit and enhance their travel photos, check out Fotor. It’s a website that was first launched back in May 2012 and aims to provide an easy to use platform for photo editing. Some of the…
Read MoreI’m delighted to release my latest e-Book, The Backpackers Guide to the Inca Trail! Back in 2010 I hiked the real Inca Trail in Peru and it was always my dream to release a book about it to help others interested in doing the popular hike. The book is a detailed 102 page guide to hiking the Inca…
Read MoreAfter a few weeks of deciding what to do with my life while I was staying with one of my best mates in Bournemouth, I was excited to get back on the road again and try out my latest backpack. You might have heard my recent nightmare with Tunis Air (far and away the most…
Read MoreYou might have seen my social media updates about this release of my first ever travel blog, so here it is in a post to explain a bit more. As I head to my 100th country this month, I wanted to get my first ever travel blog released to get it out of the way.…
Read MoreI review quite a lot of books on here, more than time will permit me to read and I’ve had to turn down book reviews recently due to my ongoing travels (currently in Brazil for the World Cup), but sometimes when a new book comes out, I get excited. Especially with this one. If you…
Read MoreIt’s time for another awesome book review and I’m delighted to feature one from two fellow travellers, globertrotters and writers. Lisa Niver Rajna and George Rajna run the fantastic site We Said Go Travel and I also interviewed them on my World Travellers Series earlier in the year. Both Lisa and George are members of…
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