On weekdays I provide essential and informative travel tips, with a different subject each day!
My recent adventure backpacking in Italy saw my return to this country for the first time since my Venice trip in 2009. It was a long overdue visit to a country I have dipped in and out of some six times now on my journeys. However, I hadn’t yet been to Rome and it made Read more about Backpacking in Italy🇮🇹: Staying at the Hotel Papa Germano in Rome[…]
On one of my recent adventures I became the first tourist to visit Wrythe, Austenasia’s capital. Having crossed the border from the town of Carshalton in London, England I was greeted by Emperor Jonathan I and given a guided tour of the capital. Here are the top 8 sights in Wrythe, capital of the Empire Read more about Backpacking in Austenasia🟡🔴: Top 8 Sights in Wrythe, the Capital[…]
“We are never gonna survive unless, we are a little crazy” – SEAL I hit my 100th country this week on arrival into Tunis, Tunisia so I thought I’d simply share my top 5 crazy travel moments and highs from the journey so far as it seems the best time to do that. Plus I’ve Read more about 5 Craziest Travel Moments from My First 100 Countries[…]
It’s not immediately obvious which food is Guyanese and which is not when you tour Guyana. We decided to ask the tourist board for the most authentic and real place to try Guyanese food and oddly, it turned out to be a restaurant called “Germans” in the capital city, Georgetown. Where is Germans? It’s on Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Guyanese Food at Germans in Georgetown, Guyana🇬🇾[…]
I love quirky records on my travels. You may have read that I drank in the southernmost Irish Pub in the world in Ushuaia, the highest Irish Pub in the world in La Paz and the southernmost hotel in Australia. So on my recent trip back to Birmingham, my top mate Lock In Lee and Read more about Thirsty Thursdays: Beers🍺and Lunch in Europe’s “Longest Bar”, The Square Peg, Birmingham, England🏴[…]
The route to my 100th (FIFA recognised) country couldn’t have been more bizarre really. To spice things up, and in true fashion of the way this journey has gone, I decided to visit a few small countries/micronations on the way. My fascination for disputed regions, breakaway republics and self declared nations possibly comes from the fact Read more about World Borders: How to Get to Wrythe, Austenasia🟡🔴(Within Carshalton, England)[…]
It’s time for another in my World Travellers series as I interview Canadian solo traveller Stephanie Mayo, who runs two blogs as well as working full time and travelling as much as she can. Who are you? I’m Stephanie, a single lady from Canada who loves solo travel, wildlife, writing and hiking! I’m pretty busy Read more about World Travellers: Stephanie Mayo from The World As I See It[…]
“My idea of love comes from a childhood glimpse of pornography” – Richey James Edwards I’ve been brewing up many of these Sunday’s Inspiration posts but these days I’m a bit more strict on myself so I haven’t cooked them. Like an established artist I delete some and I only pick the ones I feel Read more about Sunday’s Inspiration: Every Beginning Comes From Some Other Beginning’s End[…]
In catching back up to my huge catalogue of meals I’ve eaten yet never written about on Friday’s Featured Food, I thought I’d do a recent one – my only meal eating out in Norway. There are a few reasons why I didn’t eat out in Norway. One was that everywhere I stayed included breakfast, Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Fish Stew and Stout in Pingvinen, Bergen, Norway[…]
“It’s another tequila sunrise, stirring slowly across the sky.” – The Eagles While backpacking in Mexico sooner or later you will try tequila and mezcal. You might not know the difference, how it’s made or why there are thousands of different kinds. In my time in Mexico we did a Mezcal tasting, a tequila tasting Read more about Thirsty Thursdays: Touring the Tequila and Mezcal Museum in Mexico City, Mexico[…]