On weekdays I provide essential and informative travel tips, with a different subject each day!
Tehran, the capital city of Iran is manic and tamely daunting, yet in many ways it was the least favourite of all the Iranian cities or towns we visited. Capital cities are often like this on your travels and it’s elsewhere in the country that you find the real charm. In Iran, we loved Mashhad, Read more about Backpacking in Iran🇮🇷: Top 5 Sights in Tehran[…]
It’s time for another instalment of travel collectables. I write about things I pick up and collect on my travels, before I’ve written about t-shirts, banknotes, country patches, beer labels etc. But it’s time for me to move over…my Mum’s Fridge Magnet collection! It was a few years ago while in Ljubljana in Slovenia that Read more about Travel Collectables: Fridge Magnets From Around the World, For My Mum[…]
You’ll probably know I’m a big fan of bars in London and also that I’m heading back there this week. When I lived and breathed in England’s capital city, it became a weekly event seeking and searching for a new bar and I’m sure that in the last 15 years I have had a drink Read more about My 5 Favourite Bars in London, England[…]
“Some people believe football is a matter of life and death…it is much, much more important than that.” – Bill Shankly. I’ve been asked about finding “constants” from my travel – i.e. what one thing is the same everywhere I go around the world? While the obvious things are all the same – people, the need Read more about Sunday’s Inspiration: Football, The People’s Game, The World Over[…]
I haven’t done a “Tuesday’s Travel Essentials” for ages on here, yet I’ve about 50 in the pipeline. But they take a lot of work as I’m a perfectionist on them and I’ve been busy on other projects recently so it’s time for one with a difference – Travel Non Essentials and not even on Read more about Travel Non Essentials: 5 Things A Backpacker Never Buys[…]
I love the random nights out that creep up on you. They’re always the best and this week while I was meeting up with my friends Agness and Cez from eTramping, we had a cool night out in Da Lang, which is in Dongguan in China’s Guangdong Province. Being locals of the area, Agness and Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Night Market in Da Lang, Dongguan, China[…]
I have NEVER written a “look into the future” Thirsty Thursdays on here before but the excitement is building up to this one so I thought I’d give it a try today! It’s just a short post as I’m pretty busy the next few weeks. This is going to be the biggest reunion I’ve organised Read more about Thirsty Thursdays: World Cup Day Out in London, England[…]
It’s not everyday you meet a hero. While nonchalantly backpacking on the west coast of the country, I met the “Hero of Israel” in Haifa, or at least the brother and media guy for the hero of Israel. It was all a bit confusing and odd, and in Hebrew. But I got a kind of Read more about The Day I Met the Hero of Israel in Haifa (Exclusive Interview)[…]
As I head back to Brazil next week for the madness that is the FIFA World Cup I thought I’d recollect my top memories from my previous two visits to Brazil. In fact, as ever I still have a load of untold stories from Brazil, but here’s a quick top 5 memories from backpacking in Read more about My Top 5 Memories From Backpacking in Brazil[…]
Today on Sunday’s Inspiration I cast my mind back to my time spent working, living, studying and, well, drinking in Bournemouth, Dorset, England. I like to reflect on things. I’m a sentimental person and while I’m not stuck to the past I’m very much aware that without what’s gone before, we wouldn’t be where we Read more about Sunday’s Inspiration: Alex Tew – The Pixel Millionaire[…]