On weekdays I provide essential and informative travel tips, with a different subject each day!
“The more I get of you, the stranger it feels the air” – Seal. On the five year mark of the meeting in a Bucharest hostel kitchen, I just couldn’t help but get overtly sentimental, nostalgic and I plunged into a week of unusual dreams, unforeseen joys, draining pain, feelings of love and emotional ups Read more about Sunday’s Inspiration: Love Remains The Drug That’s The High, Not The Pill[…]
“I try to hang on to myself. I don’t believe in no-one else. And I’m shaking like a leaf, As I fall into the street” – Noel Gallagher. Sunday’s Inspiration: Why Can’t The Clocks Go Back 5 Years? ‘You’ll never change what’s been and gone’- Noel Gallagher. Around 2013, Sundays became a place for me Read more about Sunday’s Inspiration: Why Can’t The Clocks Go Back 5 Years Tonight?[…]
Deep in Vienna, Austria sits yet another crazy wacky republic. This one is a spherical ball that is a house and a separate country that borders Austria. This is Kugel Mugel! It was one of two new countries on my October 2019 tour, where I visited Poland, Austria, Kugel Mugel, Germany, Czechia and the Kingdom Read more about Backpacking in Kugel Mugel: A Spherical House Republic in Vienna, Austria[…]
“Escape from our history, history” – Manic Street Preachers. I headed back to Austria recently with two main places to be visited – the Republic of Kugel Mugel (a micronation in a sphere in Prater Park, Vienna) and the town of Braunau Am Inn. Braunau Am Inn is not exactly a backpacker’s paradise and is Read more about Das Alte Gefängnis, Braunau Am Inn, Austria🇦🇹: Spending A Night in a Converted Prison⛓️👮🏛️🚔 in Hitler’s Town[…]
Egypt is one of the most interesting travel destinations in the world. It’s a rich culture that spans the millennia, and is filled with globally acclaimed monuments such as the pyramids. The pyramids other historical artifacts make it the perfect destination for tourists from all over the world. The best part is that traveling to Read more about Egypt🇪🇬Making Tourist Arrival Easier With an Online Visa[…]
“He’s the one who likes to shoot his guns” – Kurt Cobain. “With their tanks and their bombs and their guns. They are fighting” – Dolores O’Riordan. “Slip inside the eye of your mind” – Noel Gallagher. Nauru has beautiful coastlines, staggering views, classic beaches and wild ocean waves. It’s a Pacific Islands country full Read more about Backpacking in Nauru🇳🇷: Top 12 Sights In The Interior, Thon Outback[…]
While Yaren might feel like the real capital city of Nauru, nearby Aiwo stakes a claim for the country’s busiest “city”. Well it’s nothing more than a village of course, yet at the same time it’s a hub of activity and also the name of the Province. This is basically as busy as it gets Read more about Backpacking in Nauru🇳🇷: Top 10 Sights in Aiwo[…]
“Sunny days, oh where have you gone? I get the strangest feeling you belong” – Fran Healy. I couldn’t quite believe it this week when somehow through my Facebook or Twitter feeds, I came across a 20 year old song by Scottish band Travis. The song, Why Does It Always Rain On Me? was released Read more about Sunday’s Inspiration: Is It Because I Lied When I Was Seventeen?[…]
“On the rip in a country where nobody is on the rip!!!” Anyone who has ever been to the Marshall Islands will remember something so unusual and distinctive about them – the thin narrow strip with ONE road straight through the capital city, Majuro, also known as DUD, (Delap-Uliga-Djarrit). In case, I’ve confused you, from Read more about Thirsty Thursdays: Top 9 Bars in Majuro City DUD, Marshall Islands🇲🇭[…]
“Saw a vagabond king wear a xylophone crown. Wondered if I might end up the same” – Jon Bon Jovi. * and yes I know it’s styrofoam, but I prefer xylophone. Don’t dress it up as a dream life and don’t fake the usual excrement that “travel is the best thing ever like mate yeah Read more about Sunday’s Inspiration: Why Travelling the World Leaves You Nowhere[…]