“Everything I touched was golden” – Robbie Williams. It’s a truly weird thing going back to the SAME place many many years later. What is more bizarre about THIS BLOG POST is that it happened by accident and was on EXACTLY the same DATE but 25 years to the EXACT DAY later. Yet everything was…
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“Nayim from the halfway line ” – Tottenham Hotspur fans. Is it possible to go to one continent and yet class yourself as backpacking a different continent? 😂🤣 Well I did a bit of research and it turns out that it is possible to backpack The European Union while also backpacking Africa. You can even…
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I made a surprise double return to Spain in 2022. Firstly, I ended up in the summertime in both Fuerteventura and Gran Canaria – my only brace of Canary Islands to date. Then, in December 2022 when I decided to finally backpack in Cuba, the easiest flight option turned out to be a direct flight…
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“Things get clear when I feel free” – Manic Street Preachers. This is where I possibly all began. This is where my journey in life started. At least, I want to believe this, and now at the ripe old age of 42, it felt like I finally needed to visit this place. Gran Canaria, and…
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In July 2022, I finally arrived in The Canary Islands. This remote part of Spain is off the coast of Africa! The eight main islands are (from largest to smallest in area) Tenerife, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, La Palma, La Gomera, El Hierro and La Graciosa. If you look at the below map, it is weird…
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“It’s a weird and wonderful world if you come from Wimbledon” – John Motson. Being in lockdown and not having travelled to ANY new city/town/village in 13 months now, and no new countries or even a leaval of this country (Poland) has certainly given me time to release 4 books (a fifth one is almost…
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“Traded in my sorrows for the joy that I borrowed, back in the day” – Kylie Minogue. Well I was backpacking in Valencia and Alicante long before this blog even existed. And I partied on terraces in Majorca and Menorca back in the day on textbook summer holidays with family, or even with the lads…
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You might have read about my stories backpacking in Barcelona in Catalonia, having crossed in from Andorra. I loved my time in this city and surprised myself by this. I expected it to be overtouristic, dear and too cliched. However, it wasn’t like that at all. I loved touring the sights, drinking in bars with…
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“Sometimes I feel like I’m in Barcelona” – D Kay and Epsilon. The Catalonian capital of Barcelona is a city I could actually see myself living in. The odd thing about it is that Barcelona was never on my list of cities to visit – ever. I’m a bit of a travel cynic these days…
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I’ve really enjoyed writing this one up as I have a complete obsession for these more unusual borders around the world. Sometimes there are even borders between places that others don’t class as a country. You might have read that I was recently backpacking in Gibraltar for the first time. It was my 46th country…
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