Friday’s Featured Food: Cooked Chicken, Rice and Salad At Tentadora Restaurant, São Tomé, São Tome And Principe 🇸🇹

Posted on April 15, 2024April 17, 2024 by Jonny Blair

Despite having taken over 10,000 Food photographs on my travels, I am definitely not a food freak, geek or blogger but I sometimes feel the need to cover some of my meals on Friday’s Featured Food. In São Tome E Principe, I visited Bobo Forro, Trinidade, São Tome (the capital city), Porto Allegre, São Joao Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Cooked Chicken, Rice and Salad At Tentadora Restaurant, São Tomé, São Tome And Principe 🇸🇹[…]

How To Get A Cameroon🇨🇲Multiple Entry Tourist Visa Online

Posted on April 15, 2024February 17, 2025 by Jonny Blair

“Round this town, you’ve ceased to be. That’s what you get for sleeping with the enemy” – Noel Gallagher. It was a childhood dream of mine to visit Cameroon. It was a long hard road since Benjamin Massing’s red card of 1990. It was easy for the Indomitable Lions to beat Diego Maradona’s mighty World Read more about How To Get A Cameroon🇨🇲Multiple Entry Tourist Visa Online[…]

Backpacking In Cameroon 🇨🇲: Top 10 Sights In Douala

Posted on April 14, 2024August 3, 2025 by Jonny Blair

“He’s the only swinger in town” – UK Commentator on the Roger Milla corner flag celebration (1990) While Douala isn’t Cameroon’s capital city per se, nor is it Roger Milla’s birthtown, it certainly has a capital city vibe. To all intents and purposes, this feels like a capital and indeed it serves at Cameroon’s seaport Read more about Backpacking In Cameroon 🇨🇲: Top 10 Sights In Douala[…]

Friday’s Featured Food: Local Fish, Rice and Vegetable Stew at Papa Figo, São Tomé, São Tome And Principe 🇸🇹

Posted on April 14, 2024 by Jonny Blair

After arriving into Sao Tome from Gabon, and getting a stamp on arrival (no visa needed for me at the time), I was backpacking here in São Tome E Principe. My first port of call was my excellent “Writer’s Lair” at Casa De Ferias. I rested here in this lovely abode whilst making onward plans. Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Local Fish, Rice and Vegetable Stew at Papa Figo, São Tomé, São Tome And Principe 🇸🇹[…]

Backpacking In São Tome And Principe 🇸🇹: A Random Visit To Bobo Forro – Top 4 Sights

Posted on April 13, 2024 by Jonny Blair

“There we were; now here we are” – Noel Gallagher. After a wild month, which was supposed to be a quiet one (March 2024), saw me visit Poland, Italy, Romania, Moldova, Gagauzia, Belgium, Morocco, Cameroon and Gabon, I ended up landing in São Tome, capital of São Tome And Principe. I was tired but got Read more about Backpacking In São Tome And Principe 🇸🇹: A Random Visit To Bobo Forro – Top 4 Sights[…]

Friday’s Featured Food: Hot Kaurma And Shurpa Stew At Boulevard Cafe, Comrat, Gagauzia🟦⬜️⭐️🟥

Posted on April 13, 2024January 31, 2025 by Jonny Blair

March 2024 saw me finally arrive in Gagauzia. My oh my what a journey! This is a fully autonomous republic in eastern Europe, which borders Moldova. I crossed the border by marshrutka from Chisinau in Moldova to Comrat in Gagauzia. Comrat is the capital city of Gagauzia and I toured the city’s top 12 sights. Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Hot Kaurma And Shurpa Stew At Boulevard Cafe, Comrat, Gagauzia🟦⬜️⭐️🟥[…]

Backpacking in São Tomé and Príncipe🇸🇹: My Journey To The Exact Centre Of The World at Ilheu Das Rolas

Posted on April 13, 2024April 13, 2024 by Jonny Blair

“Laughing at the stoney face of gloom when your turn comes round” – Neil Finn. This was a wild one. Life doesn’t get any easier; backpacking doesn’t get any more fun; travel blogging doesn’t get any cooler. This is actually as good as it gets without any need for me to retire, for now. I Read more about Backpacking in São Tomé and Príncipe🇸🇹: My Journey To The Exact Centre Of The World at Ilheu Das Rolas[…]

Backpacking In Gabon🇬🇦: How I Fluked A Visa On Arrival🛂As A Birthday Surprise In Libreville

Posted on April 13, 2024August 25, 2024 by Jonny Blair

“Oh my starry eyed surprise, sundown to sunrise, dance all night, we’re gonna dance all night, dance all night to this DJ” – Paul Oakenfold. First up, I wasn’t even meant to be in Gabon. I need a visa for Gabon as a Northern Irish citizen, and even after booking connecting flights in a frenzy, Read more about Backpacking In Gabon🇬🇦: How I Fluked A Visa On Arrival🛂As A Birthday Surprise In Libreville[…]

Backpacking In Gagauzia: Top Sights In Comrat, The Capital

Backpacking In Gagauzia🟦⬜️⭐️🟥: Top 12 Sights In Comrat, The Capital

Posted on April 12, 2024October 24, 2024 by Jonny Blair

“I follow the Moskva down to Gorky Park” – Scorpions. On a brave spring day in March 2024, I celebrated an odd moment of freedom here, actually on a glory day. 26th March 2024 to be exact. This was my day of freedom from the world and the disasters of the previous 10 years. And Read more about Backpacking In Gagauzia🟦⬜️⭐️🟥: Top 12 Sights In Comrat, The Capital[…]

World Travellers: Carrie Riseley Travel Author

Posted on April 11, 2024April 26, 2024 by Jonny Blair

The latest in my World Travellers series is Carrie Riseley, who is a long term traveller and writer. Her books are available online here http://carriestravelbooks.weebly.com so now it is time for her interview! Who are you? I am a travel author. I’m in my 30s and have been travelling since I was 18. I’ve always Read more about World Travellers: Carrie Riseley Travel Author[…]