Backpacking in Niger 🇳🇪: Top 17 Memories of Niamey

Backpacking in Niger 🇳🇪: Top 17 Memories of Niamey, The Capital City

“I want to be wild because my life is so tame” – Noel Gallagher. I thought I’d do a different post on Niger, as opposed to my usual textbook top 7 sights posts. So here I’ll share my top 17 memories from my time backpacking in Niamey. Niamey is the capital city of Niger, and Read more about Backpacking in Niger 🇳🇪: Top 17 Memories of Niamey, The Capital City[…]

Friday’s Featured Food: Beef🥩Pepper🌶️Onion🧅Rolls🥖At Breakfast At Eto'o Restaurant in Abidjan, Ivory Coast 🇨🇮

Friday’s Featured Food: Beef🥩Pepper🌶️Onion🧅Rolls🥖At Breakfast At Eto’o Food Restaurant in Abidjan, Ivory Coast 🇨🇮

This edition of Friday’s Featured Food will take us back from Ivory Coast in December 2024 to Cameroon 9 months prior via a visa quest for the Central African Republic. In March 2024 when backpacking in Douala, Cameroon, I asked my guide Mebah Markdonald (of Discover Cameroon Tours) if I could attend a top division Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Beef🥩Pepper🌶️Onion🧅Rolls🥖At Breakfast At Eto’o Food Restaurant in Abidjan, Ivory Coast 🇨🇮[…]

Backpacking Simultaneously In Mauritania 🇲🇷 and Spanish Sahara 🇪🇭: Visiting Cap Blanc, The Most Western Point Of Saharan Africa

Backpacking Simultaneously In Mauritania🇲🇷and Spanish🇪🇸Sahara🇪🇭: Visiting Cap Blanc, The Most Western Point Of Saharan🏜️Africa

“Go West, life is peaceful there” – Pet Shop Boys. In December 2024, Marek Bladowski and I had a wild dream to backpack to the western most point of Saharan Africa. What even is that? Is there even a point where such a place exists and publicises itself? We dream up the wild things. Life Read more about Backpacking Simultaneously In Mauritania🇲🇷and Spanish🇪🇸Sahara🇪🇭: Visiting Cap Blanc, The Most Western Point Of Saharan🏜️Africa[…]

Thirsty Thursdays: My Top 10 And Bottom 2 Bars In Central African Republic 🇨🇫

“Love’s a hide and hate display” – Nicky Wire. I never expected to visit 5 bars in the CAR, nevermind double figure it, but here we are, there we were. In my previous few countries – Niger I drinkpacked only 5 bars and in Burkina Faso just the 9, with Mauritania limited to 5 non-alcoholic Read more about Thirsty Thursdays: My Top 10 And Bottom 2 Bars In Central African Republic 🇨🇫[…]

101 Countries And Out: Retiring My Beloved Forest Green Mindshift Gear ThinkTank Backpack

113 Countries And Out: Retiring My Beloved Forest Green🌳☘️Mindshift Gear ThinkTank Backpack🎒🍀💚

**It’s time to retire my lovely forest green backpack!!** “Days that found you; grace that bound you” – Teenage Fanclub. General wear and tear, two snapped zips, one broken zip cord, a torn sleeve and more stains than a brothel’s bed, but this exact green backpack has successfully backpacked through 101 countries with me in Read more about 113 Countries And Out: Retiring My Beloved Forest Green🌳☘️Mindshift Gear ThinkTank Backpack🎒🍀💚[…]

Jealous of this guy's Omam-Biyick shirt - what a jersey that is - 1990!

Living My 1990 Football⚽Dream In Cameroon🇨🇲: Watching The Top Division Play-Offs And Meeting Samuel Eto’o In Douala!!

“They can come true yeah. They can come true” – Gabrielle (Dreams). Before you read this, look at the above photo and watch Omam Biyick’s legendary header below. I watched it live after school in June 1990 in Marlo in Bangor, Northern Ireland. I wanted Cameroon to win. I loved it. I love it. I Read more about Living My 1990 Football⚽Dream In Cameroon🇨🇲: Watching The Top Division Play-Offs And Meeting Samuel Eto’o In Douala!![…]

Backpacking In Burkina Faso 🇧🇫: My Top 8 Sights in Ouagadougou

Backpacking In Burkina Faso 🇧🇫: My Top 8 Sights in Ouagadougou

“Don’t you want me baby? Don’t you want me oooh?” – Mandy Smith. What a city name this one really is. Ouagadougou – Wow! Pronounced phonetically in Northern Irish as “WAGA DOO GOO” so it is, so till spake. Long before I even backpacked this joint, it was a dot on my globe that fascinated Read more about Backpacking In Burkina Faso 🇧🇫: My Top 8 Sights in Ouagadougou[…]

Friday's Featured Food: Rabbit 🐇On New Year's Eve At Chez Laetitia in Abidjan, Ivory Coast 🇨🇮

Friday’s Featured Food: Rabbit 🐇On New Year’s Eve At Chez Laetitia in Abidjan, Ivory Coast 🇨🇮

“Another year over; a new one just begun” – John Lennon. I found myself back in Ivory Coast at the end of 2024, and this is where Marek and I celebrated New Year’s Eve 2024 and New Year’s Day 2025. I had backpacked through Abidjan and Grand Bassam before, back in 2018. On that trip, Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Rabbit 🐇On New Year’s Eve At Chez Laetitia in Abidjan, Ivory Coast 🇨🇮[…]