“Abdelghani Yes!” – World Cup 1990 Commentator. It may not have been on my list a few years back. Egypt somehow never reeled me in. I always skipped it. Over the years I knew it would happen eventually, I mean there are so many UK Egypt tours and the country is a travellers favourite. Here on…
Read More“Le Jeu Avant Tout” – Glentoran FC Motto (“Football comes first before everything else / the game above all”). Firstly, I am a Glentoran FC supporter and have been to this stadium well over one hundred times in my life. I am a football groundhopping veteran now with around 700 matches and 200 stadiums under…
Read More“Maradona good. Pele better. George Best” – A Northern Ireland flag’s message at George Best’s funeral. Local heroes are real. George Best is a superhero to me. To many of my friends. To many Northern Irish people. To many AFC Bournemouth fans. Even Manchester United fans like him. Hold on – even Leeds United fans…
Read More“Every beginning comes from some other beginning’s end” – Semisonic. It’s not possible, but I would love to forget the decade of the 2010s. Easily the worst decade of the quadruple I had to endure thus far in life. In love with the 80s, tied to the wonderful Britpop Paddy Campbellic 1990s, wanderlusted and triple…
Read More“You need a little time to rest your mind; you know you should so I guess you might as well” – Noel Gallagher. Well I’ve done my time living in London back in the day, and I must have visited the city about 50 times in my life, but I’m definitely not done with backpacking…
Read MoreIf you already know that you are visiting African then you have most of the work done. Heck, deciding on a location is half the work. If you know you are going to African then half the work is done. Of course, this doesn’t mean that the other half of the planning process is going…
Read More“Pelanty, ref!”- football players and supporters. I grew up in Northern Ireland and am a football geek. My Dad played football, I played football, my friends played football and my brothers played football. That quadruple also watch football week in, week out. A few years back I cracked the 501 not out for attendance at…
Read MoreThe world’s top consumer of jewelry in the United States of America. The market volume of Jewelry in 2017 was $1.7 trillion. Bug business owners cannot build these numbers, small business owners have a very share in the revenue. These numbers also show that there is a lot of competition in this industry. To beat…
Read MoreNo matter what time of year you drive in, there are major risks, particularly if you’re driving on interstates and highways. Not only is speed an issue on major roadways, but you’re also sharing the road with large trucks and buses which are struggling in winter conditions as well. Just consider the fact that a…
Read MorePyramids of Giza, Sphinx, Nile Delta, Michael Palin DVDs, Suez Canal, Abdelghani precision penalties and the recent exploits of Champions League winner Mohammed Salah. That is some kind of generic overview I had of Egypt. When your filthy backpack has galloped its way through 181 real countries, you would half expect tourist puller Egypt to…
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