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This is officially the 1,000th actual post on my travel blog Don’t Stop Living (not including pages or deleted posts)!! I know for a fact that if you had said to me in Toronto in 2007 when I started my travel blog that in less than 6 years I would have amassed more than 5 Read more about The 1,000th Blog Post on Don’t Stop Living[…]
In my ongoing series of world borders, I prove how easy it is to travel the world, cross borders into new countries and get visas. This post is all about getting from Malaysia to Brunei Darussalam on the island of Borneo. Obviously there are many different ways to cross this border, but for the basis Read more about World Borders: How to get from Malaysia to Brunei (Labuan to Serasa)[…]
Today I warp myself back to a delicious lunch I enjoyed in Panama City’s Casco Antiguo – the Old Town. Friday’s Featured Food hasn’t yet had a meal from Central America so it’s time to put that right! Panama City’s old town is so unbelievably untouristy that you will just love and embrace the charm Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Barbecue Lunch in Casco Antiguo, Panama City’s Old Town[…]
I thought I’d write about one of my nights out in Gaborone in Botswana today as it was a really great travel memory. Having arrived at the border into Botswana from South Africa at Tlokweng, my bus took me onwards to the capital city of Gaborone. As it was late at night I had arranged Read more about Thirsty Thursdays: A Night Out in Gaborone, Botswana🇧🇼[…]
Today in my ongoing series on World Travellers we meet Caroline who runs the excellent website Traveling 9 to 5 dot com! Please note the single ‘l’ in Traveling. The joys of the diversification of the English language…over to Caroline and Josh… Who are you? Caroline Eaton, married to the better half of Traveling 9 Read more about World Travellers: Caroline From Traveling 9 to 5[…]
Continuing on from my first post on the historic town of Chikan on the Kaiping Diaolou Tour, we headed to MaJianglong next. This is basically a cluster village within the Kaiping Diaolou range of World Heritage Sites. The Cluster village contains scattered towers and is situated deep in the countryside. You will need a ticket Read more about Kaiping Diaolou Tour: MaJianglong Cluster Village, Guangdong Province, China[…]
My final flirt with cauliflower harvesting and indeed working on Tasmanian farms came at Phil’s Farm on Loanes Lane, Ambleside in East Devonport in Northern Tasmania. I had spent almost 6 months living in Tasmania, working on farms almost the entire time and still fitting travel and sightseeing in on my days off. As a Read more about Working Wednesdays: Cauliflower Harvest at Ambleside, East Devonport, Tasmania, Australia[…]
I did the whole travelling in Europe thing when I lived in Northern Ireland and England, but it didn’t quite feel like I was travelling properly. I’ve been reminiscing recently about a trip that I did 10 years ago to the east coast of Spain. While most travellers going to Spain head to Madrid and Read more about 5 Things To Do In Valencia, Spain[…]
Don’t even talk to me about losing photos. Literally over the years of travel I have simply lost THOUSANDS of photos just because either I erased a memory card as I had no spares, my hard drive broke or my computer stupidly over wrote old flies with new ones deleting the old ones. Even in Read more about Tuesday’s Travel Essentials: Spare Memory Cards[…]
As a budget traveller and nomadic Ulsterman I find myself loving skyscrapers and vantage points over towns and cities. Having grown up in a town where the highest building was a church and anything over 3 storeys looked out of place, it’s incredible to be able to go dozens of floors high on lifts and Read more about Monday’s Money Saving Tips: Free Views of City Skylines[…]