On weekdays I provide essential and informative travel tips, with a different subject each day!
Money in Iran is a complete enignma at the start. Everything is just so cheap there that you’ll rarely question the price of things. However, you need to be careful, as you yourself could be to blame for paying exactly 10 times as much for everything. Anyone that has been to Iran will know why…
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A quick one for you today folks but hopefully something real, personal and impacting to inspire you! As I hop on a jet in the city of London, bound for Brazil as I relax on the plane, other people (my staff) will be doing work for me. In the last few years, I’ve discovered outsourcing.…
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There was something special for me when I went backpacking in Brunei in 2013. It was a milestone I had never thought possible. I cracked the 70 country mark when I got the ferry from Malaysia to Brunei, taking the Labuan to Serasa crossing before heading to Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital city of what…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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“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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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