Category: Regular Features

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

My Stay in Paradise🏖️at the Peerless Sarovar Portico Resort, Corbyn’s Cove, Andaman Islands, India🇮🇳

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When I booked my spontaneous trip to the Andaman Islands, it was all because of Port Blair. The chance of a lifetime to fly from Chennai (Jonny) to Port Blair (Blair) and fulfil my name in travel was too hard to resist. However, I had no idea of the paradise that was to await me Read more about My Stay in Paradise🏖️at the Peerless Sarovar Portico Resort, Corbyn’s Cove, Andaman Islands, India🇮🇳[…]

Jonny Blair backpacking the Upper Trail Hike - Yunnan - China

Sunday’s Inspiration: A Backpacker’s Dream Ends

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“Our dreams are the same, in the sleep we don’t get. I’ll remember your name; but mine, you’ll forget.” It’s a few lines from a poem I wrote for an ex-lover of mine. I was right of course, she’d forget my name and forget me. I wouldn’t forget her name or her, in the sadness Read more about Sunday’s Inspiration: A Backpacker’s Dream Ends[…]

How to Get a Permit to Visit Andaman Islands on Arrival at Port Blair, India🇮🇳

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India is a massive monster to backpack through and people kept throwing ideas at me when I got here. That didn’t happen in China. I ignored each and every idea though as our lives go our own individual ways and we follow our own paths. I had a few things in mind when I arrived Read more about How to Get a Permit to Visit Andaman Islands on Arrival at Port Blair, India🇮🇳[…]

Backpacking in India: Top 1 Sight in Hampi – Me Getting My Beard Slashed

Beardslashing in India🇮🇳: Top 1 Sight in Hampi – Me Getting My Beard Chopped Off✂️🔪🧔‍♂️

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“Cut yer hair and get a job” – Jarvis Cocker. First up – I have NEVER in my life dry shaved. I don’t own an electric razor, I don’t want one and I don’t need one. I always wet shave with soap or shaving foam and razors! Always! When Backpacking in India, my beard had Read more about Beardslashing in India🇮🇳: Top 1 Sight in Hampi – Me Getting My Beard Chopped Off✂️🔪🧔‍♂️[…]

Sunday’s Inspiration: Where Are You From? Northern Ireland☘️🔴✋mate! Where’s that?

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“[German accent] Hey mate where are you from?” – German backpacker (for example). “[Globalised Ulster accent] Northern Ireland mate” – Northern Irish backpacker (who incidentally is wearing a Northern Ireland football shirt at the time). “Where’s that?” – German backpacker. Yeah thanks mate, we’re still unknown, we’re just too far away from Germany aren’t we? Read more about Sunday’s Inspiration: Where Are You From? Northern Ireland☘️🔴✋mate! Where’s that?[…]

World Travellers: Anda Galffy From Travel Notes & Beyond

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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[…]

Backpacking in Afghanistan🇦🇫: Visiting Hazrat Ali’s Tomb and Blue Mosque in Masar e Sharif

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“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[…]

Backpacking in India🇮🇳: Staying at the Jungle Hostel by The Hostel Crowd in Vagator, Goa

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“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[…]

Backpacking in India🇮🇳: Top 6 Sights in Ahmedabad, Gujarat State

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“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[…]

Backpacking in India🇮🇳: Staying at the Hotel Formule 1 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat State

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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[…]