On weekdays I provide essential and informative travel tips, with a different subject each day!
My latest world travellers interview comes from Judith Lewis who is an online marketer, wine and chocolate lover and blogs at Mostly About Chocolate. Who are you? I’m a native Torontonian who loves chocolate, wine and various spirits (don’t most of us?) as well as an online marketing professional trying to literally sell myself (in Read more about World Travellers: Judith Lewis From Mostly About Chocolate[…]
Having based myself in the village of Sorvagur on Vagar Island to start with, I met up with a fellow backpacker from the USA – Katie from Boston. Katie was staying in the same place as me at Guesthouse Hugo and we decided to do some travelling and hiking together. We had already explored the Read more about Backpacking in the Faroe Islands🇫🇴: Hiking from Bour to Gasadalur on Vagar Island[…]
The Faroe Islands are magical and you might have seen me raving about them on my Facebook Page or posting regularly on Instagram some epic photos from this tiny, often neglected country. My visit in 2015 saw me visit 7 of the 18 Faroe Islands as I hiked, toured, backpacked and watched football in this Read more about Staying at the Best Hotel in the Faroe Islands🇫🇴: The 4* Hotel Føroyar, Torshavn[…]
This post was posted by TheHipmunk on Hipmunk’s Tailwind blog on 10th September 2015. These days, most of us want to travel with our electrical gadgets, whether that be a cell phone, tablet or similar mobile device, laptop, camera, music player or hairdryer. But not using the right power adapter when you are traveling can be Read more about A definitive guide to outlets around the world and how to use adapters without frying your electronics[…]
When I arrived in the Faroe Islands for a spot of backpacking, hiking and watching football, I decided to spend my first few nights on Vagar Island. I opted to stay in the village of Sørvágur which has a population of just over 1,000 people. The village of Sorvagur is also handily situated down a Read more about Staying at Guesthouse Hugo, Sørvágur, Vagar Island, Faroe Islands🇫🇴[…]
Get ready for this – The Faroe Islands are set to feature on here a lot. This under-rated travel destination surprised me completely, to the point where I simply couldn’t believe I had never been before. I first heard of the Faroe Islands in 1990, when their national football team beat Austria 1-0 in a Read more about Backpacking in the Faroe Islands🇫🇴: Exploring the Village of Sørvágur, Vagar Island[…]
The capital city of Bahrain is Manama, and while this is where most people live and where the country’s main offices, banks and shops are, it’s the rest of Bahrain that offers the more backpacker friendly sights. There is a price to pay though – to be frank, public transport is excrement here and in Read more about Backpacking in Bahrain🇧🇭: Top 5 Sights Outside Manama[…]
On my return back to Europe after over three months in Asia and the Middle East, it was time for a nice relaxed, easy option – a hotel close to the airport. I normally plump for city centre hotels, but this was a brilliant change as I was tired from my flight and I had Read more about Staying at the Park Inn by Radisson Near Copenhagen Airport, Denmark🇩🇰[…]
The latest in my backpacking buddies series is a good friend of mine, who goes back a long way but yet we lost touch for a bit and met up again once in 2014 (first time in 5 years) and again in 2015 in London. Joe “Jody” Casey lived with me in four different flats, Read more about Backpacking Buddies: Joe Casey from Kilkenny, Republic of Ireland[…]
Another crazy world border crossing, a reunion and a country some of you might not have heard of. While backpacking in Sweden, I decided to head across the border into the Royal Republic of Ladonia with my friend Daniel Evans. This was yet another insane journey – you might have read about some of my previous adventures Read more about World Borders: How to Get from Sweden🇸🇪to The Royal Republic of Ladonia (Nimis)🟩⬜[…]