On weekdays I provide essential and informative travel tips, with a different subject each day!
When you are out travelling the world you never know where you will end up next. Every new city or town I arrive in, I do little research. It’s only when you get to these places that you get extra ideas. A couple of my blog followers, Laura and Kyle alerted me of Cafe Masoch Read more about Thirsty Thursdays: Getting Handcuffed and Spanked in the home of Masochism in Lviv, Ukraine[…]
Before I decided on doing the border crossing between Kazakhstan to Kyrgyzstan, I did a bit of research into it. The reason being, I was travelling alone, it was my first time in this region and I wanted to make sure everything ran smoothly. In the winter time in the Stans, you also have to Read more about World Borders: How to Get From Kazakhstan to Kyrgyzstan (Almaty to Bishkek by Marshrutky)[…]
“You’re looking for somewhere to belong; you’re standing all alone.” – Jonas Berggren Dress it all up as glory, you’re fooling nobody. I sometimes write one hundred poems into my diary each week and the best of them, I preach on here somehow, somewhere. In my mind, the pen remains mightier than the sword. But Read more about Sunday’s Inspiration: It’s a Lonely World After All[…]
When we travel sometimes we just get too carried away with the good things. It gets a bit ridiculous doesn’t it? I mean who really cares what the top 5 sights are in a city of a country? Who really cares which hostel is coolest to stay in? Nobody reads that sort of stuff and Read more about Backpacking in Toilets: Top 8 Shights From My Travels[…]
“Stars about to fall, what do you say, Lyla” – Oasis. You’ll probably know that when I travel to a city or town in a country, I like nothing better than banging out a top 5 hit parade on backpacking sights. In most cases, we only visit these cities once in our life, so make Read more about Backpacking in Poland: Top 5 Sights in Poznań[…]
Drinking in the Channel Islands is pure bliss. I have fond memories of being the only tourist in the pubs in Sark and Herm back in 2009 and I remember pub-crawling through St. Peter Port in Guernsey one night, including a pub that the Guinness World Records class as “the closest pub to an operational Read more about Thirsty Thursdays: Top 5 Bars in St. Helier, Jersey[…]
Another vintage working Wednesday today comes from my hometown of Bangor and another odd job I ended up doing just for an extra bit of cash at the time. It was in 2001 and I had a car, so I was able to take on extra jobs like deliveries. Before the internet and mobile phone Read more about Working Wednesdays: Delivering Telephone Books in Bangor, Northern Ireland[…]
“We all go back to where, we belong” – Michael Stipe. I reflect on these things way too often. But I can’t help it. I’m a sentimental person. I cling to memories, and good ones. I’m haunted by the bad memories so I lock them in a dungeon and slam the door, hoping they never Read more about Sunday’s Inspiration: Mrs. Thompson, Kilmaine Primary School and My Sentimental World[…]
Torshavn is the capital city of the Faroe Islands. This small nation consists of a group of 18 islands and it’s north of Scotland and west of Norway. While the country is part of the Kingdom of Denmark, you won’t see many Danish flags here. This is a proud and patriotic country, a beautiful one Read more about Backpacking in the Faroe Islands🇫🇴: Top 6 Sights in Torshavn[…]
The latest in my world travellers series comes from Kach and Jonathan who run the website, Two Monkeys Travel. They are a cool couple who have so far been to places far and wide like India, Bolivia and Scotland as they prepare for their next adventure to Antarctica. Who are you? Kach Medina and Read more about World Travellers: Kach and Jonathan, Two Monkeys Travel[…]