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On weekdays I provide essential and informative travel tips, with a different subject each day!

Backpacking in Northern Cyprus: Top 21 Sights in Turkish Nicosia

Backpacking in Northern Cyprus⬜🟥: Top 21 Things to See and Do in Turkish🇹🇷Nicosia

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“We’re one but we’re not the same” – Paul Hewson. Divided cities, barbed wire fences, debated flags, burnt out cars and people getting on with their lives on clever cultured streets with the odd game of football. Welcome to Northern Ireland you say? Wrong. Welcome to Northern Cyprus. A political, economic, cultural and social puzzle Read more about Backpacking in Northern Cyprus⬜🟥: Top 21 Things to See and Do in Turkish🇹🇷Nicosia[…]

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! My Top 6 Saint Patrick’s Days Down The Years

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Ireland’s patron saint, Saint Patrick is a man of pure oxymoronic nature if today’s commercial excrement could for an ungreedy second be aware of who this guy really was. Money took over the world folks – just ask DickMonalds and Coca Cola. There is no need for Valentine’s Day Thorntons or Interflora or Christmas Santa Read more about Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! My Top 6 Saint Patrick’s Days Down The Years[…]

Top 1000 Unwritten Blog Posts: I'll Never Get These All Written And There Is NO Such Thing As Writer's Block

Top 1000 Unwritten Blog Posts: I’ll Never Get These All Written And There Is NO Such Thing As Writer’s Block

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“The pen is mightier than the sword” – Anon. As a writer, blogger, author, poet whatever, we NEVER ever ever suffer “writer’s block”. No. It does not exist. There is no such thing as “writer’s block”, if you think there is then it is because you are not a writer. I have 1,000,000 ideas about Read more about Top 1000 Unwritten Blog Posts: I’ll Never Get These All Written And There Is NO Such Thing As Writer’s Block[…]

Backpacking in South Africa🇿🇦: My Stay At Altona Lodge in Green Point, Cape Town

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Officially this was my fifth time being stamped in to South Africa. Though in essence, three of those were on my first trip here in 2011. However, it was my first time here in Cape Town and I allowed myself four nights in the city. I stayed in three different places on those nights, choosing Read more about Backpacking in South Africa🇿🇦: My Stay At Altona Lodge in Green Point, Cape Town[…]

Sleeping in a Crocodile Farm!! Our Jaw Inspiring Stay at Chobe Crocodile Cottage in Botswana

Sleeping in a Crocodile🐊Farm!! Our Jaw Inspiring Stay at Chobe Crocodile Cottage in Botswana🇧🇼

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On my second trip to Botswana, in 2020 I visited the north of the country. We crossed in from Zimbabwe at Kazungula and decided to stay overnight in a crocodile farm. This was certainly another crazy adventure and another interesting sleeping location to add to our repertoire. I had read about this Crocodile Farm in Read more about Sleeping in a Crocodile🐊Farm!! Our Jaw Inspiring Stay at Chobe Crocodile Cottage in Botswana🇧🇼[…]

Backpacking in Zimbabwe: Staying at Shoestrings Backpackers Hostel in Victoria Falls City

Backpacking in Zimbabwe🇿🇼: Staying at Shoestrings Backpackers🎒Hostel in Victoria Falls City

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“Down the waterfall, wherever it may take me” – Robbie Williams. “Don’t go chasing waterfalls, stick to the rivers and the lakes that you’re used to” – TLC. It might seem odd and even lazy of Zimbabwe to name a city (or town) “Victoria Falls”. It doesn’t quite fit with me. It is so English Read more about Backpacking in Zimbabwe🇿🇼: Staying at Shoestrings Backpackers🎒Hostel in Victoria Falls City[…]

Backpacking in Angola: Visiting the Crazy Shipwreck Graveyard in Panguila

Backpacking in Angola🇦🇴: Visiting the Crazy Shipwreck Graveyard in Panguila

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“Loose lips, sunk ships, I’m getting to grips with what you said” – Robbie Williams. A Shipwreck Graveyard by the Atlantic Ocean in Angola?🇦🇴 Are you serious? This place was a surprise to me. I didn’t expect to find it fascinating, interesting or in any way spectacular. I certainly didn’t expect to write a blog Read more about Backpacking in Angola🇦🇴: Visiting the Crazy Shipwreck Graveyard in Panguila[…]

Backpacking in Namibia: Staying at Chameleon Backpackers Hostel in Downtown Windhoek

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“Karma karma karma karma karma chameleon. They come and go. Oh ho. They come and go.” – Boy George. Windhoek will never make my list of world’s greatest capitals, nor Namibia a highly ranked country, however there was solace and some joy to be had during my time here, even in the largely neglected “fly Read more about Backpacking in Namibia: Staying at Chameleon Backpackers Hostel in Downtown Windhoek[…]

Backpacking in Northern Ireland🔴✋️☘️: Guided Tour of George Best’s Childhood Home in Burren Way, The Cregagh, Belfast

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“Maradona good. Pele better. George Best” – A Northern Ireland flag’s message at George Best’s funeral. Local heroes are real. George Best is a superhero to me. To many of my friends. To many Northern Irish people. To many AFC Bournemouth fans. Even Manchester United fans like him. Hold on – even Leeds United fans Read more about Backpacking in Northern Ireland🔴✋️☘️: Guided Tour of George Best’s Childhood Home in Burren Way, The Cregagh, Belfast[…]

Backpacking in England: 8 Quirky and Quick Music Related Sights to See in London

Backpacking in England: 6 Quirky and Quick Music Related Sights to See in London

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“You need a little time to rest your mind; you know you should so I guess you might as well” – Noel Gallagher. Well I’ve done my time living in London back in the day, and I must have visited the city about 50 times in my life, but I’m definitely not done with backpacking Read more about Backpacking in England: 6 Quirky and Quick Music Related Sights to See in London[…]