On Fridays, Don’t Stop Living brings you a varied range of unusual food to try on your travels.
When I finally backpacked across the border from Italy into Seborga, I was in for a treat. This small country had been on my tourist list for a long time and May 2024 was finally the time to backpack across the border from Bordighera in Italy and up the mountains into the Principality of Seborga!…
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Despite having taken over 10,000 Food photographs on my travels, I am definitely not a food freak, geek or blogger but I sometimes feel the need to cover some of my meals on Friday’s Featured Food. In São Tome E Principe, I visited Bobo Forro, Trinidade, São Tome (the capital city), Porto Allegre, São Joao…
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After arriving into Sao Tome from Gabon, and getting a stamp on arrival (no visa needed for me at the time), I was backpacking here in São Tome E Principe. My first port of call was my excellent “Writer’s Lair” at Casa De Ferias. I rested here in this lovely abode whilst making onward plans.…
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March 2024 saw me finally arrive in Gagauzia. My oh my what a journey! This is a fully autonomous republic in eastern Europe, which borders Moldova. I crossed the border by marshrutka from Chisinau in Moldova to Comrat in Gagauzia. Comrat is the capital city of Gagauzia and I toured the city’s top 12 sights.…
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When travelling in Senegal in May 2016, I was not backpacking there. I was there as part of a Money Supermarket lost luggage challenge and therefore, I had NO luggage. It was a 12 day adventure which took me from Dean Court to Dakar! I attended AFC Bournemouth v. West Bromwich Albion in the Premier…
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“No pearls inside my oyster; just a world with no answers” – Ian McCullough. Growing up in the seaside city of Bangor definitely influenced me in wateric terms. I love the water, the ocean, the sea. Then again, I also lived in Belfast, Bournemouth, Poole, Dartford, London, Sydney, Gdańsk and The Kong hardly shy of…
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Friday’s Featured Food: Barbecued Chicken, Salad and Baobab Juice at Cafe Miniere, Conakry, Guinea. I stayed in the Hotel Du Golfe in Conakry, I toured the bars, headed to Kassa Island and I was here the week of the fatal oil explosion. Plus, I had got my Guinea online visa approved the day before my…
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When in Nepal, the dish Dāl Bhāt will raise its head a few times. In such a case, it’s usually better to try it, than backpack a country, leave it and realise what you missed. My main two meals when backpacking Nepal were probably textbook tourism but I didn’t care. I first tried Momo in…
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Friday’s Featured Food: Spicy Chicken Momo At The Famous Narayan Daiko Masangalliko Restaurant, Kathmandu, Nepal 🇳🇵 Nepalese restaurants cropped up often on my travels and I’ve been in a fair few, there is even a cool one close to my current flat in Warszawa, Poland – Chmielarnia, which does craft beer and Nepalese food –…
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Friday’s Featured Food returns this week and is fresh from my latest trip to Asia where I visited Pakistan. While based in Lahore, I pakpacked the sights of Lahore, headed to the India border to watch the famous Wagah Border Ceremony and headed to The Tomb of Jahangir in Shadarah Bagh. Here, on my second…
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