Don’t Stop Living – a lifestyle of travel brings you ongoing travel tips from all seven continents!
“Where do you go? Buttoned in your favourite coat, stepping out to a different world. And you might be home late” – Ocean Colour Scene. Get ready for a death trip – 22 hours of mayhem. This was no pleasure cruise, this was an absolute backpacking journey from a lunatic asylum. How about a border…
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On my journeys around the globe the last few years I have ended up in lots of debated and disputed countries. I am a strong nationalist and if a place satisfies a few of my beliefs on what constitutes a country, then I gladly add it to my list. The most recent one of these…
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This is my first ever blog post on here in part-Polish, It’s coming towards the end of my second month in Poland and though, I have travelled around Pomorskie and into Kaliningrad in that time, I have found time away from work to start to learn Polish, with Learn Polish in Gdańsk. I did a…
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When you have a passion for travel, work should not be a barrier for you. If you want to travel, you will, as I have professed many times. See the world and do not be worried about the sum of money you spend. Before we start a discussion, we have one question – “Is your…
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Dzień Dobry, Bout Ye, Hello, Buenos Dias, Welcome to dontstopliving.net! “Don’t Stop Living” – Jonny Blair (via High School Graffiti in Toronto, 2001). It might seem odd to do an introduction post NOW, but this is the right time for it. I have new readers and I have a lot of readers who followed my…
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“In my hour of darkness, there is still a light that shines on me” – Paul McCartney. My oh my! When I continue to tell people about these places I have been, you can never quite believe it. Pelplin is gorgeous and has been one of the recent stops towards the end of my backpacking…
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“Damn my education, I can’t find the words to say for all the things caught in my mind” – Noel Gallagher. This was a magical place – Kaliningrad. Another travel dream of mine and another chance to add another ex-Soviet Union country or region to my growing repertoire. Also, this marked the end of my…
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Crossing world borders still has intrigue for me. It’s the adrenalin buzz and excitement of it all. As a Northern Irish nationalist, I love separatism and I detest land borders like Belgium to Netherlands. Where basically you have no idea which country you are in – you even use the same currency and don’t get…
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One of the 7 natural wonders of the world, and certainly a bucket list adventure, the Great Barrier Reef is one of those places that you must see if you are on holiday in Australia. The best way to access the Great Barrier Reef is by taking excursions out from one of the five…
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Down the years of backpacking, you might have noticed that I have uploaded around 20,000 real life travel videos from my journey. I spontaneously make this videos almost daily, just to capture the real life of a genuine long term backpacker. You can view ALL my videos here: Jonny Blair – Don’t Stop Living on…
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