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Bloodsucking🦷🩸In Romania🇷🇴: Visiting Bran Castle🏰Transylvania (AKA Dracula’s🧛Castle)

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Romania is a fantastic bloodsucking destination for any bloodsucker. As a long term nomadic bloodsucker I headed to the bloodsucking heart of Transylvania for an adventure in vampirial culture. Inspired of course by Irish Writer Bram Stoker who rose to fame after his novels on Dracula. I had already toured the far north in Bucovina, Read more about Bloodsucking🦷🩸In Romania🇷🇴: Visiting Bran Castle🏰Transylvania (AKA Dracula’s🧛Castle)[…]

Friday’s Featured Food: Zeama in Butuceni, Moldova🇲🇩

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Backpacking in Moldova is pure bliss. You’ll visit places like Butuceni, Orheiul Vechi and Chisinau and realise that there are no other tourists in sight and you’ll love it. When in the remote village of Butuceni, I stumbled upon the only hotel and spa complex in this tiny village, Butuceni Eco Resort. I met the Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Zeama in Butuceni, Moldova🇲🇩[…]

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Thirsty Thursdays: Top 5 Bars In Kaunas, Lithuania🇱🇹

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Do you know what? I’m simply going to bars now so that I can write about them. It used to be I’d go because I wanted a beer. Instead what I am doing in new cities and towns is I look up a minimum of 5 bars I want to visit during my few days Read more about Thirsty Thursdays: Top 5 Bars In Kaunas, Lithuania🇱🇹[…]

Five Surprising Vacation Destinations in the United States of America

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Every year, thousands of people flock to the country’s most popular vacation destinations. Hawaii, Florida, Nevada, New York, and California get all the attention. These destinations do make for splendid vacations, but aren’t they a bit touristy? The following list boasts the country’s most surprising vacation destinations, so you can get away from the lines Read more about Five Surprising Vacation Destinations in the United States of America[…]

World Borders: New Book on Crossing Borders in South America

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You might have followed my World Borders series the last few years. Basically having crossed over 100 land and sea borders down the years, I have managed to type about 40 of these into articles. Then recently I started working with fellow travellers Kali Kucera and Lorraine Caputo to bring together a book including every Read more about World Borders: New Book on Crossing Borders in South America[…]

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One of the Last Customers to Stay in the Windsor Inn, Royal Hotel, Bangor, Northern Ireland☘️🔴✋

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My recent travels in Northern Ireland have proved something to me – you can travel in your home country and love it, and get surprised by it. After my adventures on the north coast of Northern Ireland, I returned to my home town of Bangor, which is in County Down, just 12 miles from Belfast Read more about One of the Last Customers to Stay in the Windsor Inn, Royal Hotel, Bangor, Northern Ireland☘️🔴✋[…]

Staying at the Old Plovdiv Guest House in Plovdiv, Bulgaria🇧🇬

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As a handy stop over city on route from Veliko Tarnovo (a splendid city where I stayed in the Hotel Comfort) enroute to Sofia, I decided to do the obvious touristy thing for a change and stay in Plovdiv. Plovdiv is a classic Bulgarian city with a real ancient Roman feel about it. Despite the Read more about Staying at the Old Plovdiv Guest House in Plovdiv, Bulgaria🇧🇬[…]

Hilarious Tube Stations in London, England

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Years ago me and my mates used to do pub crawls in London and even in 2014 on my return to London town we did another crawl. It’s a great spot for it. Basically London has pubs on every corner of every street. We worked our way through all the cool pubs crawls over the Read more about Hilarious Tube Stations in London, England[…]

Staying at Cairn Bay Lodge, Bangor, Northern Ireland🔴✋️☘️

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I’ve stayed in some obscure places during Christmas and New Year down the years. I’m talking homestays in Iran, sharing rooms in Parramatta Australia, camping in the mountains of Peru or hiking in China. In 2014 however, I was in Europe at Christmas for the first time in 6 years. I decided to spend some time Read more about Staying at Cairn Bay Lodge, Bangor, Northern Ireland🔴✋️☘️[…]

Friday’s Featured Food: Pogaqe and Sour Cream in Pristina, Kosovo🇽🇰

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So I ended up backpacking in Kosovo after Northern Macedonia and decided I wanted to try some local food. The thing is though, Kosovo has only been a country since 2008 and most of the locals are Albanian. So rather than call it actual Kosovan food, the food I tried is really just Albanian. Well, Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Pogaqe and Sour Cream in Pristina, Kosovo🇽🇰[…]