On weekdays I provide essential and informative travel tips, with a different subject each day!
When backpacking in Costa Rica, the city of Alajuela is most definitely not on most people’s tourist trail. However, my final flight out of Costa Rica to the USA was from San Jose international airport, which is actually closer to Alajuela than it is to San Jose. So after touring San Jose with author Michael Miller, Read more about Backpacking in Costa Rica: Top 5 Sights in Alajuela[…]
I recently found myself backpacking in Spain and headed to the capital city Madrid. Madrid is famous for a lot of different things down the years such as Real Madrid, the gay scene, Franco’s parades but did you know that Madrid has the world’s oldest restaurant? Neither did I until I turned up here, neither Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Lunch in the Sobrino de Botin, the Oldest Restaurant in the World in Madrid, Spain[…]
I had a crazy time in Tunisia celebrating my 100th country as I was Couchsurfing for the first time ever and our third host on this journey was Dhia. Previously we had stayed with Ayoub in Olympic City and Wicem down on the coast at Teboulba, but now we were back in Tunis just before Read more about Couchsurfing in Tunisia🇹🇳: Staying with Dhia in Essaidia, Tunis[…]
In my time celebrating my 100th country in Tunisia we mostly toured towns and cities by the sea. That all changed when we backpacked our way inland to the town of Kairouan. Kairouan is deemed the fourth most holy city in the Islamic world and it’s a maze of mosques in a city that reminded Read more about Backpacking in Tunisia🇹🇳: Top 5 Sights in Kairouan[…]
My 100th country odyssey continued as we headed on a train south out of Tunis, Tunisia’s capital city. We were heading for the coastal town of Monastir and were pleasantly surprised. As well as being my 100th country, Tunisia was also the first place I decided to try couchsurfing. My girlfriend Panny had used it Read more about Backpacking in Tunisia🇹🇳: Top 5 Sights in Monastir[…]
My unexpected Basque Country adventure was surprising, spontaneous and satisfying. A country often forgotten by backpackers, many succumbing to the fact that it’s been swallowed by the Kingdom of Spain. After my previous 5 trips to Spain, it was the political and cultural differences of flambouyant Barcelona (Catalonia), dreamy Donostia and inspiring Valencia that gave Read more about Backpacking in the Basque Country: Staying at Akelarre Hostel, Bilbao[…]
We were delighted to be accepted to spend three nights with Wicem and family near the town of Teboulba on the east coast of Tunisia. For my 100th country celebration, we were couchsurfing in Tunisia, firstly with Ayoub in Tunis and then with Wicem in Teboulba. And Wicem’s place was more than just a bed Read more about Couchsurfing in Tunisia🇹🇳: Staying with Wicem and Family in Teboulba[…]
People constantly ask me if I have ever tried “Couchsurfing” and my answer is always “Yes I have slept on many couches” but if you mean the official website, my answer is a resounding “No”, well in the official sense. I have couchsurfed all over the world in reality but never through using the website Read more about Couchsurfing in Tunisia🇹🇳: Staying with Ayoub in Olympic City, Tunis[…]
It was a really busy time on my adventure backpacking through the north of Tunisia, celebrating my 100th country and honestly – not having a single moment’s rest. It seemed like I should’ve just spent a week sitting on a beach sipping cocktails. But yet, somehow, that would be wasted hours for me. So while Read more about Backpacking in Tunisia🇹🇳: Top 11 Sights in Carthage[…]
“Nobody knows, yeah nobody know-ow-ows the way it’s going to be” – Noel Gallagher. So the time finally arrived, it was the 27th March 2015, and I was aged 34 living out a childhood dream, to not just travel the world but to properly visit 100 countries (and counting). I boarded my flight in Rome Read more about Backpacking Centurion: 100th Country and a Great Night Out in Tunis, Tunisia🇹🇳[…]