On weekdays I provide essential and informative travel tips, with a different subject each day!
Bucharest is a truly under-rated city to visit, and it took me a while to make it here. Despite visiting Romania’s neighbouring countries a few times, it wasn’t until November 2014 that I arrived in the capital city, Bucharest. It’s a huge city, great for night life, the locals are very friendly and it also Read more about Backpacking in Romania🇷🇴: Top 5 Sights in Bucharest[…]
It was a weird and emotional return to Cork City for me this month, it had been a twenty year wait to get back here and things just sorted themselves out. I arranged to do a tour with IrishDayTours.ie out to Blarney Castle and to kiss the famous Blarney Stone, which you may have read Read more about Staying at the Kinlay House Hostel in Cork, Republic of Ireland🇮🇪[…]
“The world is closing in. Did you ever think that we could be so close, like brothers? The future’s in the air. I can feel it everywhere.” – Scorpions. I cry writing this, but you knew that. It’s damn emotional. Bishkek is a magnetic city. As my travel repertoire gained new momentum by reaching Central Read more about Backpacking in Kyrgyzstan🇰🇬: My Top 20 Sights in Bishkek[…]
“Time’s running out the door you’re running in” – Ian McCullough (1997). “In the blink of a young girl’s eye, glory days.” – Bruce Springsteen. They say time flies and they don’t lie. Whoever “they” happens to be. As I head to Italy and France this week to live out a childhood dream of watching Read more about Sunday’s Inspiration: Half My Life Ago, This Week[…]
During my recent lost luggage challenge I had two stopovers at Ataturk Istanbul Airport in Turkey. It’s an airport I’m used to. I have flown directly in and out of it a few times when backpacking in Turkey and I have also had multiple stop overs here before. In 2015 on one of my stopovers, Read more about Travelers Box: A Brilliant Way to Use Your Left Over Foreign Currencies![…]
Every single week, people will email me and tell me it must be a “kick ass” “awesome” “super amazing” life to be a full time professional travel blogger, moving from city to village, from tent to 5star hotel, from country to republic and from airport floor to night bus. I’d be the cynic to tell Read more about Working Wednesdays: Taking The Stress Out of Travel Blogging[…]
“I want to be the minority” – Green Day. Do you know what I thought about recently when I reflected on my life for the briefest of seconds? The whole “majority is right” brown substance. One thing I have rarely done in life is follow the majority. I’ve always tried to do my own thing and gone Read more about Sunday’s Inspiration: Challenge the Majority. Majority Doesn’t Mean Right.[…]
As I just begin to plan a major pub crawl on a big reunion day with the lads in London during the World Cup, it’s a good moment to recollect the top 10 pub crawls from my travels, some I’ve told before on Don’t Stop Living, some I haven’t yet shared. These have been absolutely Read more about Thirsty Thursdays: Top 10 Pub Crawls From My Travels So Far[…]
This is an odd entry in my world borders series. It sounds really easy and it should be, but it turned into a topsy turvy adventure and I really didn’t know what was ahead, looking back it appears to have run smoothly, though on the day it wasn’t quite like that! The Gambia is completely surrounded Read more about World Borders: My Crazy Adventure from Dakar in Senegal🇸🇳 to Serrekunda, The Gambia🇬🇲[…]
It’s a funny world and I’m surprising myself with this article as I was convinced I would never ever visit India, nor want to. Before, I backpacked through Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, China and Myanmar which either border India or have some history/overlap with Indian culture in some way. Possibly due to my love for China, which was Read more about How to Get An Indian🇮🇳Visa in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan🇰🇬[…]