Don’t Stop Living – a lifestyle of travel brings you ongoing travel tips from all seven continents!
“It’s a nervous tequila sunrise stirring slowly cross the sky to say goodbye.” (altered lyric by Glenn Frey/Don Henley, original word is ‘another’ instead of ‘a nervous’). The photo above was taken in Prague in the Czech Republic in 2007. The photo was taken by the famous “Lock In Lee” Adams, my friend, long lost…
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“Bullets for your brain today, but we’ll forget it all again.” – Nicky Wire. Afghanistan continued to inspire and we headed out past the town of Tashkurgan to the province of Samangan. It was here that I got to tour some quite simply epic ruins of an ancient Buddhist Monastery known as Takht e-Rostam. The…
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It was another border crossing on this wacky journey for me recently as I decided on a night train to head from Poland to the Ukraine. I had been staying at the Mosquito Hostel in the city of Krakow and was out touring Auschwitz and Birkenau the day before, so it was a busy few…
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“Walking through this changing season, sorrow spreads its wings. We can’t keep a hold on time, just receive what it will bring” – Tim Wheeler. We have travel milestones, we have things we tick off, countries we ridiculously count, zeniths, low points and it all tides along into one lifelong journey, some eejits like me…
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“Follow the Moskva down to Gorky Park and listen to the wind of change” – Scorpions. It’s no travel secret that I am slowly beginning to love backpacking in the Former Soviet Union, these days I love it and am keen to explore it much, much more. As a child, I was always intrigued by…
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After my completely Wacaday “Timmy Mallet” journey to Nukus in Karakalpakstan (that is not a joke), I ended up in an allegedly very touristic city in Uzbekistan – Khiva, often spelt Qhiva. The weirdest thing was I was told this spot was one of the most touristic in the entire country and would be packed…
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After booking a late minute crazy journey from Jonny (Chennai) to Blair (Port Blair), I arrived in the capital city of the Andaman Islands, Port Blair. This is not a city famous for backpackers to India. Another reason why I enjoyed it more than just the name of the city. But Blair in Blair was…
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This is probably the most fake country on my travel list so far, yet it was one of my earliest conquests as a long term whackpacker. I first visited Donkey Kong Country (often shortened to DKC for immigration reasons) back in 1994 on the Super Nintendo. I was able to visit it without leaving my living…
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The time finally came to “horse something down me” and yes it was January 2016 when I finally ate some horse. Ye-ha! Through the whackpacking years I had tried camel meat stew in Iran, dog meat soup in South Korea, cow steak, kangarooney curry and wallaby bolognaise in Australia, guinea pig in Peru and a…
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I don’t normally write articles like this and I also rarely class myself as a “digital nomad”, the reason being the term is an oxymoron to itself. At best, the term is an excuse for people who were apparently “fed up with their jobs” so they ran away to find a “better life”. I smell…
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