On weekdays I provide essential and informative travel tips, with a different subject each day!
Down the years of backpacking the world, hiking became a big part of my journey. I have done hikes on every continent now, including a wacaday trip up Cuverville Island in Antarctica in 2010. Looking back, my favourite hikes were the Real Inca Trail to Machu Picchu in Peru, it was so epic, I even Read more about Best Backpacking Equipment For Hiking[…]
The latest World Travellers on Don’t Stop Living are a double act of Kevin and Kate from the Emerald Isle. They are Happy Irish Wanderers and a full time travel couple. Who are you? Hello, we are Kevin and Kate, An Irish husband and wife travelling the world full time since 2022. In 2016 we Read more about World Travellers: Kevin And Kate – Happy Irish Wanderers And Full Time Travel Couple[…]
The latest World Traveller on Don’t Stop Living is Jackie Lambert, a fellow author and a global tourist like myself. Jackie comes from Blackburn in Lancashire, which I visited in 2004 to watch AFC Bournemouth away at Blackburn Rovers (we won 10-9!). Who are you? I’m Jacqueline (Jackie) Lambert, award-winning travel humour writer, full-time nomad, Read more about World Travellers: Author Jackie Lambert Of World Wide Walkies[…]
Guinea was the hardest visa to get for me, out of the hat-trick on my 2023 Christmas List – Guinea, Guinea-Bissau and Sierra Leone. They all border each other but to save time, I was flying in and out of the hat-trick on a fast trip which would also see me back in Senegal and Read more about How To Get A Guinea 🇬🇳 Visa Online[…]
In total, I have been to Scandinavia on 6 different trips, swallowing Sweden (7 times), Denmark (6 times), Finland once, Norway once, Iceland once, Faroe Islands once as well as the lesser recognised Christiania and Ladonia! It was mostly in snow, and with a real winter beauty! There are lots of options for travelling in Read more about Backpacking In Scandinavia: My Highlights From My Trips There[…]
The latest in my ongoing World Travellers series is Riana from Teaspoon of Adventure. I was intrigued that Riana was raised in Toronto in Canada. Toronto is the city which inspired this blog’s name (in 2001) and this blog’s birth (in 2007)! Yes, the phrase “Don’t Stop Living” was etched on a High School Wall Read more about World Travellers: Riana from Teaspoon of Adventure[…]
Backpacking In Belgium: How To Get From Brussels To Charleroi Airport I have visited Belgium five times now, having first backpacked it in 2007. However it wasn’t until 2023 that I first had a flight out of Charleroi Airport. On other adventures, I was in Brussels, Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp and some small border villages with Read more about Backpacking In Belgium🇧🇪: How To Get From Brussels To Charleroi Airport✈️🛫🧳🛬[…]
While North Korea is hardly world renowned as a wacaday “party country” or somewhere to get ridiculously drunk and go on pub crawls, of course there are bars and restaurants there that are open to foreigners. Anyone who believes the biased western media excrement is stupid – the country has bars and they know their Read more about Thirsty Thursdays🍺: My Top 12 Bars When Backpacking In North Korea🇰🇵[…]
Backpacking in Guinea🇬🇳: Touring Conakry The Week Of The Explosion“It’s just a dropped stitch; in life’s tapestry” – Joanie Trotter. Monday morning 18th December 2023, two things happened that would influence and impact my entire next week, changing the title of this very blog post. It was supposed to be “Backpacking in Guinea 🇬🇳 : Read more about Backpacking in Guinea🇬🇳: Touring Conakry The Week Of The Oil Explosion[…]
Thirsty Thursdays: 11 Bars And Cafés I Visited in Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 “The self unseeing” – Thomas Hardy. On my West Africa tour of 2023, the last of a hat-trick of new countries on my jigsaw was Sierra Leone (which followed my repeat into Senegal, and the Guinea brace – Guinea and Guinea-Bissau!). The plan Read more about Thirsty Thursdays: 11 Bars And Cafés I Visited in Sierra Leone 🇸🇱[…]