On weekdays I provide essential and informative travel tips, with a different subject each day!
As December kicks in, it is time for Christmas gifts and if, like me you have friends who are travel freaks and love to get out and see the world, you will often wonder what to buy them. Here are three cool ideas, which I found while browsing the Uncommon Goods Christmas gifts section. These Read more about Best Christmas Gifts for Travel Freaks[…]
This is long overdue and one of about 1,000 articles that I started and never finished. On my ongoing writing about my base in early 2016, Bishkek, it’s time to explore the pubs and bars of this city. Having been based in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan from December 2015 – April 2016, I often frequented the bars Read more about Thirsty Thursdays: Top 10 Bars in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan🇰🇬[…]
Georgia is a backpackers dream and should be on your list before you venture to places like Germany and Thailand. Hindsight is wonderful thing – I did the same as everyone else and only visited Georgia in 2013 when my bandwagon had finally rolled me to the Caucauses. After visiting Stalin’s town of Gori, the Read more about Backpacking in Georgia🇬🇪: The Gergeti Glacier Hike[…]
I don’t write about Thailand much, it bored the living daylights out of me, but it seems to be on everyone’s travel list and I started this article about 5 years ago and never finished it, so here it is. Bangkok has normally been on my “try to avoid” list mainly because loads of people Read more about Backpacking in Thailand🇹🇭: Chao Phraya River Cruise, Bangkok[…]
There are dozens of sights and attractions to keep yourself occupied if you’re visiting Rome. It’s one of the best cities for backpackers in particular as everything is so easily accessible on foot, but they also have a first-class transport system. As an added bonus, you can also cross the border into the Vatican City Read more about Backpacking in Italy: Top 5 sights in Rome[…]
“Suicide is painless, it brings on many changes” – John-ny Mandel. First of all, thank you to anyone who didn’t want me to die. It’s as blunt a message as that. Thank you to all of you who messaged me, messaged my family, shared my plea for help, helped my family and friends when I Read more about Thank You For the Support During My Depression, No Thanks to the Stupid Ones[…]
On the World Borders series on here, I’m perpetually behind schedule in terms of writing. I must have written only 10% of the border crossings I have done and probably will never have time to cover them all, but I want to – as I know they have helped you on your way and that was Read more about World Borders: How To Get From Tajikistan🇹🇯To Uzbekistan🇺🇿 (Dushanbe To Denau Or Samarkand)[…]
Again, Friday’s Featured Food has been a neglected part of my blog and as you can imagine, I have eaten enough different types of food on my journey to keep this as a weekly fixture for ten years or more, probably 100 years in fact! But I won’t have time to do one every Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Dinner At the Oldest Restaurant in Gdańsk, Poland🇵🇱 – Kubicki🥟🍲[…]
“Nigdy więcej wojny / Never More War” – Westerplatte, Poland. It was another poignant journey for me as I headed to Westerplatte – the peninsula in Gdańsk, Poland where World War II began. I know what you will tell me – I keep visiting the gory spots, you’re thinking: Touring Pripyat, Chernobyl, Ukraine Touring Chernobyl Read more about Touring Westerplatte in Gdańsk, Poland🇵🇱: The Place Where World War II Began⚔️💥😢[…]
“Damn my education, I can’t find the words to say with all the things caught in my mind” – Noel Gallagher. It is a line taken from the Oasis song “Don’t Go Away” which was released the same year I left Bangor Grammar School, 1997. I wrote very recently how it just passed the 25 Read more about Studying Saturdays: “Backpacking Centurion” In The Grammarian, Bangor, Northern Ireland🔴✋️☘️[…]