Backpacking In Tavolara👑🟥🌟: Top 16 Sights In The World’s Smallest Island⛴️ðŸ–🤴Kingdom “This is my world and I am world leader pretend” – Mike Stipe. In 2017, I backpacked through the Kingdom Of Romkerhall, becoming the first backpacking travel blogger to write about it. The Kingdom Of Romkerhall is the world’s smallest kingdom. It borders…
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“Say that you’ll stay forever and a day in the time of my life” – Noel Gallagher. Just when you think Toronto can’t get any stranger, you stumble across the Republic Of Rathnelly. Sorry what? Sorry where? Yes it’s me again and I am backpacking, whackpacking and nutspacking another “wacaday republic”!! Hidden away in the…
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“An extraordinary guy can never have an ordinary day” – Noel Gallagher. If you haven’t heard of The Barony Of Caux, then you can be forgiven. This country (or let’s say the remaining embassy of the country!!) borders Canada in the city of Toronto. The Barony of Caux is the world’s oldest feudal kingdom, since…
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“Last night I met a new girl in the neighbourhood” – Carole King / Gerry Goffin. If you haven’t heard about the Republic Of Rathnelly, then you can be forgiven. This country borders Canada in the city of Toronto and it all started back in 1967 when they declared themselves a breakaway republic, rather like…
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“An extraordinary guy can never have an ordinary day” – Noel Gallagher. During Christmas 2024 I finally hit the 230 mark of recognised countries I have backpacked through, the latest piece of that wacaday jigsaw fell on unassuming Central African Republic. Of those 230, some of those countries I have only been to once. But…
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In May 2024, I made the crazy trip from the coastal town of Bordighera in Italy up the mountains to The Principality of Seborga! Of course, Seborga borders Italy but it’s easy to organise such a trip away from the UK these days. A brand such as awayresortsuk are currently running Hundreds of June getways under…
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Thirsty Thursdays: I Pub Crawled EVERY Bar In Seborga Back in 2022, I thought I was hardcore by visiting over 50% of the bars in Alderney in one weekend. On Rathlin Island in the same year, I did 1 out of the 2 bars there (the other was shut) and on Sark in 2009, I…
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“I get so high, I just can’t feel it” – Noel Gallagher. The news you need to hear firstly is that lofty wee Seborga is a pure fire charmigator. Anyone who disputes this, can come and see me and I’ll tell them in true Alan Mcdonald style. This high one kicks lowly Milan and Genoa…
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After my incredibly inspiring border crossing from Bordighera in Italy to Seborga, I had a hat-trick of days to explore this small country. Seborga on my visit had only two restaurants that were open, so naturally I had to dine in all of them. The two open ones were Trattoria San Bernardo and Restaurante…
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World Borders: How To Get From Italy 🇮🇹 To Seborga 💙🩵ðŸ¤ðŸ‘‘👸 – Local Minibus From Bordighera “I know the roads on which your life will drive” – Noel Gallagher. I thought it would be a wild one. I knew it would be a wild one. Yet despite all that, and my years of backpacking 🎒…
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