Backpacking In Tavolara👑🟥🌟: Top 16 Sights In The World’s Smallest Island⛴️ðŸ–🤴Kingdom “This is my world and I am world leader pretend” – Mike Stipe. In 2017, I backpacked through the Kingdom Of Romkerhall, becoming the first backpacking travel blogger to write about it. The Kingdom Of Romkerhall is the world’s smallest kingdom. It borders…
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“The stars shine so bright, but they’re fading after dawn. There is magic in Kingston Town” – UB40. In December 2022, I finally went backpacking in Jamaica. Those were tough times due to COVID restrictions. At the time I was even blocked from my flight from Dominican Republic to Jamaica due to a passport switch.…
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“My heart it skips a beat when I behold” – Noel Gallagher. I didn’t have any wild dreams, demands or desires when I arrived at dawn into the lesser cared capital city of Hargeisa. This is the capital of Somaliland. It was a visa struggle to even get here – horrific times for money, time…
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“Don’t believe the hype” – Everyone Sensible Who Ever Backpacked Maafushi. To be honest, I didn’t have any real plans, dreams, hopes or inspirations before I finally landed in The Maldives in July 2025, for the first time ever. And probably the last time, as I’m just not into repeats any more, unless they are…
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“Rainy Summertime” – Noel Gallagher. Even before my trip to The Maldives in 2025, I had self monikered it the “Rainy Summertime Tour“, inspired by a lost Oasis track. One that Noel Gallagher wrote but never released. I had heard The Maldives were some kind of a “paradise”, this turned out to be excrement as…
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“Take me away, cos I just don’t wanna stay” – Noel Gallagher. When COVID hit the world in 2020, it was for sure a dent in my travel globe, a halt in proceedings. Life changed dramatically for me after that. I was locked down in Warszawa in Poland having just come back from Africa in…
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Here I was, 203 countries deep into my wacaday adventure around the world and I was finally in The Isle of Man!! This lesser ventured country is the fifth closest country to my home country of Northern Ireland yet it took me until July 2022 to finally make it here. I set about reminiscing, glory hunting,…
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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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“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…
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“Maybe somewhere down the road when somebody plays (at the end of the line)” – The Travelling Wilburys. I had backpacked quickly through the Mauritanian oceanside city of Nouadhibou in 2022 after completing the textbook Mauritania Iron Ore train journey. That was a trip of a lifetime, and who knew that 2 and a half…
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