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“Everyone’s changing; I stay the same” – The Corrs (2004). Sentimental journeys are no stranger to my wandering heart or backpack. Neil Finn said it long before I rode my weary soul onto the streets of Bournemouth Town in 1994…my first trip to the iconic seaside town…10 years later I’d be working in a bar…
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“All along the waterfall with you; my brown eyed girl” – Van Morrison. As of 2025, I have officially been fource (four times) to The Caribbean, if I’m counting islands only (2011, 2014, 2021, 2022) and two of those were both over Christmas and New Year when COVID began. It became a thing to go…
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This page aims to give a list of the places I have been with green ticks for the ones I have visited followed by the year I first visited. I am still updating this, but most of this is true as of March 2026. Apologies for the missing flags, will get them added when I…
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While I’m certainly not a food freak, a foodie, a food blogger or a fat bastard, I still run my Friday’s Featured Food series. This series started way back in 2012 when the blog became more specific and tailored. And so, in an attempt to backdate and foodpack my way through 5,000 plus meals from…
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“Stand by me; nobody knows the way it’s gonna be” – Noel Gallagher. I certainly didn’t go to Niger for a booze up or even to pub crawl it, nobody does that do they? But somehow in the madness of it all we actually still managed to drink in 5 different bars in 4 days…
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“We are not born for departure, but we do learn to take it” – R.E.M. In the last 20 years of backpacking the world, only TWO countries charged me for departure tax to be paid in cash at the airport when leaving…and the shitlist reads… 1.New Zealand🇳🇿. 2.Sierra Leone🇸🇱. Of course they are not my…
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“It really really really could happen” – Damon Albarn. Niger’s mainstay, Niamey is a lesser ventured capital city. I didn’t know a lot about it before my visit. We heard that boating on the Niger River and heading out to a giraffe zone would be the highlights and the normal things for backpackers to do…
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“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…
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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…
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“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…
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