On weekdays I provide essential and informative travel tips, with a different subject each day!
When you are backpacking in a country it is a cool idea, awesome in fact, to check out the top backpacking sights in some cities, towns or villages within that country. You will be totally inspired and you will love it. So if you are heading backpacking to country “x” (let’s called it Underbaijan, Countryonia, Read more about Backpacking in a Country: Top 5 Sights in A City, Town or Village in That Country[…]
“You’re here. It’s a reality show” – Nik (Ten Coins Hostel, Sofia) Upon checking into the incredible Ten Coins Hostel in Sofia in Bulgaria a year ago this month, I was greeted by Nik the owner and invited to eat and drink with him. When I arrived he said to his wife and to myself, Read more about Sunday’s Inspiration: Your Life, It’s a Reality Show[…]
It’s been such a long and crazy journey since my time backpacking in Taiwan, yet week after week I remind myself and pinch myself that I was really there. I think visiting Taiwan was the turning point in my travels. It was 2009 and though I’d been to China, Russia and Belarus before, it felt Read more about Backpacking in Taiwan: Top 5 Sights in Anping[…]
I recently embarked on an exciting adventure in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, England. I stayed overnight in a hut in the magical forest, which is on the English side of the border, but right next to Wales. The Forest of Dean is maintained by Forest Holidays, who run 9 of these forest retreats Read more about Foraging For Food in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, England[…]
“When are you going to stop travelling?” “When will you settle down?” “How long have you been on the road for?” These are the types of questions that people ask me, day in day out. Everybody assumes (with their own personal justifications) that the journey has to end. The travelling has to stop. The crazy Read more about Sunday’s Inspiration: Here’s Where The Story Doesn’t End[…]
This edition in my world borders series is slightly long overdue. The reason being I have been on this route more times than I can remember. It was back in 2008 – 2009 that I worked on car ferries in the south of England. I was based in Lymington, Poole and Weymouth. But most of Read more about World Borders: Crossing from Poole, England to St. Helier, Jersey by Ferry[…]
It was a welcome and sentimental return to the island of Jersey recently as I headed to their capital city, St. Helier for a weekend. I stayed overlooking the sea, at the Ommaroo Hotel and I toured some of the sights I had missed out on during my first few visits to this mini island Read more about Backpacking in Jersey: Top 5 Sights in St. Helier and St. Lawrence[…]
One of my coolest backpacking adventures yet was drinking wine in the main brewery and winery in the Tytannia Province of Adammia. The reason this was so cool was that I was the first backpacking tourist to visit the country and sample the wine! The Empire of Adammia is a private, unknown and secret country, which is Read more about Thirsty Thursdays: Drinking Wine in Capital Brewery, Tytannia Province, Adammia🟦🟢[…]
In an unusual twist of fate, I’m in Jersey at the moment. Jersey in the Channel Islands, a place I know well. And by coincidence my latest in the World Travellers series is none other than the lovely Laura, the Traveling Jersey Girl. Or New Jersey if you like. She’s the TJG. Who are you? Hi, Read more about World Travellers: Laura From Traveling Jersey Girl[…]
I was recently in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire in England on a crazy adventure with Forest Holidays. We had a night in log cabins in the forest, a night vision tour of the forest with the ranger Gerry, a foraging for food tour of the forest and a live wild food cooking demonstration Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Stuffed Partridge Breast in the Forest of Dean, England[…]