You may have read down the years how I always try to collect souvenirs on my travels. For example, when I backpacked around the world, I would always buy a fridge magnet for my Mum, send a postcard to my youngest brother Daniel and occasionally I would buy random gifts for my Dad, my brother…
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You might have seen my travel collectables series the last few years. I am a collector and I love to have physical as well as mental and emotional memories from each place I go. Every country, disputed territory or significant region I visit, I try to adhere strictly to my own rules of collecting or…
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This is probably the most blatant bit of advertising in living history on Don’t Stop Living, but I will tell you it’s only for fun and I only make 10% of the cost of these orders – other companies take the rest (except my e-Books). Last year I launched a mini Don’t Stop Living shop…
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If you have followed my journeys on here since the site’s birth, you will know I how much technology and I are not friends. I personally hate small gadgets. I detest “tablets” with a passion and assume the name only to be associated with medication. Time after time I refused to own any type of…
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Hey everyone, you might have read my article before on how much I love postcards? And the fact remains that everywhere I go I hunt down a Post Office, buy some stamps and make sure I post my youngest brother a postcard from everywhere I go. Here’s a photo of young Danny with just some…
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So as I near my 100th actual real life country, I thought it was a good time for a post on my personal favourite passport stamps from the first 99 countries on my route. It has been a long journey through the years, weary long and slow border crossings, huge visa delays, forms filled in…
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Having visited Stockholm, Sweden back in 2007, it was time for my return to the country on my latest Baltics and Nordics tour. After travelling separate for about three weeks, I was reunited with my girlfriend Panny and we agreed we wanted a decent hotel for a few nights to relax in a bit of…
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It’s time for another instalment of travel collectables. I write about things I pick up and collect on my travels, before I’ve written about t-shirts, banknotes, country patches, beer labels etc. But it’s time for me to move over…my Mum’s Fridge Magnet collection! It was a few years ago while in Ljubljana in Slovenia that…
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Some people will call me a “hoarder”, some will say I keep ridiculous things and others will just realise that the little physical memories you have from your travels are worth keeping. You simply won’t be there again, so these little keepsakes are a constant physical reminder of my journeys. Every country I go to…
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I love the thrill of getting new banknotes when you’ve crossed a new border. Even as a child I collected them, thanks to a collection from the Sunday Times (a paper my Dad used to buy every week!). I was fascinated by geography as a child and my banknote collection grew and grew. However it…
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