On weekdays I provide essential and informative travel tips, with a different subject each day!
My latest World Traveller today is Anda Galffy, an Editor, Writer and Photographer who runs the website Travel Notes & Beyond. It’s over to Anda… Who are you? My name is Anda Galffy and I am the editor, writer and photographer at Travel Notes & Beyond, a collection of travel stories, photos and personal opinions from Read more about World Travellers: Anda Galffy From Travel Notes & Beyond[…]
“It’s all too beautiful” – Small Faces. When you are backpacking in Afghanistan, be sure to visit the country’s holiest shrine and arguably the coolest looking Islamic complex in Central Asia. This one is a stunner. Despite my previous visits to the Middle East’s largest Mosque in Adana, Turkey and my trip to the world’s Read more about Backpacking in Afghanistan🇦🇫: Visiting Hazrat Ali’s Tomb and Blue Mosque in Masar e Sharif[…]
“Welcome to the jungle” – Guns’n’Roses. “It’s the eye of the tiger, it’s the thrill of the fight” – Survivor. Goa could just be a backpackers paradise. It’s like the India I never thought existed, only because I was too lazy to come here earlier in life. Even two days before my trip south to Read more about Backpacking in India🇮🇳: Staying at the Jungle Hostel by The Hostel Crowd in Vagator, Goa[…]
“My life is my message” – Mahatma Gandhi. When you backpack your way to the “dry state” of Gujarat in India, your world may never be the same again. Ahmedabad (the former capital of Gujarat) is far and away the most chaotic city I have ever been to. I thought Chiayi, Xinying, Jakarta and Mexico Read more about Backpacking in India🇮🇳: Top 6 Sights in Ahmedabad, Gujarat State[…]
When life took me to the “dry state” of Gujarat in India, my Northern Irish soul could think of nothing else but Michael Palin’s journey here and the trouble he went to just to have a few beers in his hotel room. I wanted that too. So I made a beeline for the city of Read more about Backpacking in India🇮🇳: Staying at the Hotel Formule 1 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat State[…]
“Keep on chasing down that rainbow. You never know what you might find. Over the sunset on the horizon, it may be a dream but it tastes like poison. I’m going to take that tiger outside for a ride.” – Noel Gallagher. “A wee carryout, yeooo!!” shouts an Ulsterman! Another of my “must dos” in Read more about How To Get An Alcohol Permit at the Grand Bhagwati Hotel in Ahmedabad, Gujarat State, India🇮🇳[…]
When backpacking in India, I decided to visit the country’s strictest “dry province”, that is to say, “alcohol free province”, the north western province of Gujarat which borders Pakistan. My reasons for visiting Gujarat dated back to a Michael Palin documentary where I remember Palin had to fill in a certificate or document to collect alcohol. Read more about How to Apply Online For An Alcohol Permit For Gujarat, India’s🇮🇳Strictest ‘Dry Province’[…]
When I arrived in India for the first time in 2016, my first port of call was the capital city, New Delhi. I found out about the highly rated Smyle Inn Hostel and made this my base for my first three nights in New Delhi before night training it to Mumbai. When I Facebooked the Read more about Backpacking in India🇮🇳: Staying at the Popular Smyle Inn in New Delhi[…]
My first stop in India was New Delhi and I loved it there. I was based in the popular Smyle Inn and Hostel. It seemed to be a perfect first introduction to Indian life. Delhi’s chaotic street life is a backpackers dream, my passion for travel was pumped vivaciously on the streets of this sprawling Read more about Backpacking in India🇮🇳: Getting A Night Train from New Delhi to Mumbai[…]
“It’s a radiation vibe I’m groovin on” – Fountains of Wayne. It had been a truly incredible day of travel and to a place with a sad history – the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. It’s a day I’ll remember for a long time, but after this final part of the story, it’s time to close the Read more about Backpacking in Ukraine🇺🇦: Chernobyl Exclusion Zone☢️Tour Part 9 – Radiation Checks and Escape from the CEZ[…]