Backpacking In Reunion Island: My Dorm Room Stay At Hotel Kaz, Saint Denis I was looking for a budget option while backpacking in Reunion Island and I decided to stay in the capital city, Saint Denis. This was part of a tour where I backpack The European Union in Africa! Logistically Saint Denis was perfect…
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In the glory days before COVID arrived I used to love doing pub crawls. I even helped set up the first organised pub crawl in Bishkek Kyrgyzstan in 2016 and did a Monopoly Pub Crawl in London and a superb pub crawl in Gdansk, Poland. But COVID closed the bars and that avenue of pleasure…
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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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For me, the Canary Islands will always be somewhere special because, as I have mentioned before, this is where I truly got the travel bug when I first visited as a backpacker. Of course, these days, there is no need to stick to 1-star hotels and hostels on the islands because there are many top-quality…
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Backpacking across the UK is a great idea for a vacation, but you needn’t work yourself so hard. Cornwall – in the south-west of England – is one of the most beautiful spots in all of Great Britain. Essentially taking the mountain of the UK’s own “Florida”, a visit to this county will make you…
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“Alderney on loneliness; motorcycle emptiness” – Manic Street Preachers (altered lyric). On arrival into Alderney in July 2022, I picked up my usual maps and guides to this small island country. It was my first time to visit magical Alderney having previously been in only Guernsey 🇬🇬, Lihou, Jersey🇯🇪, Sark and Herm. Their fellow Channel…
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“When the storm arrives would you be seen with me by the merciless eyes of deceit?” – Chris Cornell. While backpacking around the world I’d often end up in places where famous films/movies have been filmed. Sometimes that was by accident. I rarely watch films and I’m cinema unloyal so I never go looking for…
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Romania is a lesser-known travel destination which might be one of the reasons I chose to pack my bag and see it. As I live in a city where crowds of tourists clog the streets any time of the day, I wanted some freedom to move around. Needless to say, Eastern European countries were perfect…
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If you are getting fed up of the cold, wet and wind and looking for somewhere to head on your 2023 summer holiday, there has never been such a good time to start your search. One such destination that is proven continuously popular with travellers is Majorca. The largest island in the Balearic Islands and…
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For years I have known that the two closest top division football stadiums in the UK are those of Dundee FC and Dundee United FC, both on the same street in the city of Dundee, Scotland. However, until 2022 I had never even been to Dundee. So if I finally made it to Dundee, my…
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