Don’t Stop Living – a lifestyle of travel brings you ongoing travel tips from all seven continents!
I have had four ventures into Africa so far in life, each time smuggling at least a brace of countries into my backpack, my first ever African country, was actually South Africa…Cape Town South Africa holds the distinction of being the southern-most urban center in Africa, as well as the second largest city on the…
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I checked my hard drive recently, and tried my best to compile all my photos and videos from my journeys into albums on there, it takes a lot of organisation. I will never be able to count, but I’ve probably taken 1,000,000 travel photos in my life. But my expertise is in writing, not in…
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“As the day was dawning, my plane flew away. With all the things caught in my mind” – Noel Gallagher. 27th August 2007 – 27th August 2017. Don’t Stop Living is officially 10 years old today. Timewise, that’s almost 30% of my life. It’s more than 50% of my adult life. I’ve shared my life…
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Recently I came across a new app called Pepo. After testing it for a while, I would like to introduce it to you today on Tuesday’s Travel Essentials. I found the Pepo app through its official website – Pepo.com and when I found out that some of my travel friends have been using it for…
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“Where are you when the sun goes down, you’re so far away from me” – Dire Straits. Disturbia: Backpacking in Red Star Belgrade, Serbia. A country which offered me a hat trick of names over the years was also one I neglected to wham into my backpack. As a 10 year old I watched Yugoslavia…
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This is a huge post, a crazy mission and one of the most ridiculous things I have ever written on here or on anywhere else, but here goes. The more I cover my depression, suicide, honesty and despise of liars on here, the more people keep messaging me to tell me to look on the…
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Long before I had this blog, and when I was also single, back in 2004 as a student at Bournemouth University, in England, I went to a “Speed Dating night” with my friends Lock in Lee, Mad Mike and Jody. At the time, reality events and TV shows were all the rage, I appeared in…
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Being based in Hong Kong from 2011 to 2015 (give or take a few side trips and jaunts around the world) allowed me to see most of Asia, and as of August 2021, there are only 5 recognised Asian countries I have yet to visit (Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, Pakistan, Maldives). I was so busy working, writing…
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Outdoor Activities Go Indoors The Internet of things has dramatically changed the way we communicate, socialize, and source information. Perhaps the most notable change has been the way we interact with one another. Barely a decade ago, people preferred face-to-face communication. Kids frequented public parks, played in sand pits, and climbed on jungle gyms. Today,…
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It is always an emotional return for me to cities I backpacked through before I started my new life in Poland. As a tourist, I visited Poland 4 times before moving here in 2016. One of those trips saw a train journey to the popular city of Kraków. At the time, I was coming into…
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