“Round this town, you’ve ceased to be. That’s what you get for sleeping with the enemy” – Noel Gallagher. It was a childhood dream of mine to visit Cameroon. It was a long hard road since Benjamin Massing’s red card of 1990. It was easy for the Indomitable Lions to beat Diego Maradona’s mighty World…
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“Oh my starry eyed surprise, sundown to sunrise, dance all night, we’re gonna dance all night, dance all night to this DJ” – Paul Oakenfold. First up, I wasn’t even meant to be in Gabon. I need a visa for Gabon as a Northern Irish citizen, and even after booking connecting flights in a frenzy,…
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Guinea was the hardest visa to get for me, out of the hat-trick on my 2023 Christmas List – Guinea, Guinea-Bissau and Sierra Leone. They all border each other but to save time, I was flying in and out of the hat-trick on a fast trip which would also see me back in Senegal and…
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How To Get A Guinea-Bissau Visa On Arrival at Bissau International Airport Guinea-Bissau was the second new country I visited in December 2023 on my West African journey, after Guinea. Guinea-Bissau was also classed as country 222 on my journey, so a magic lucky one, and my flight in was a fast one! It was…
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How To Get A Sierra Leone Online Visa Sierra Leone was the last new country I visited in December 2023 on my West African journey, and my flight in was a late one, on Christmas night 2023. Sierra Leone, isn’t for the faint-hearted however and it was definitely a challenge to get here. Visas for…
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“Maybe maybe it’s our nowhere towns” – Brett Anderson. In April 2018, I headed to The Hotel Show in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia with the Young Pioneer Tours crew. To get the visa that time, we were supposed to be “working” there. It was a really difficult visa to get, easiest the hardest visa getation of…
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How To Get An Online Tourist Visa For Pakistan 🇵🇰 The more I travel, the more countries I swallow, the harder it all gets. That’s the way it goes. It doesn’t get easier. Don’t kid yourself. The reason for this uphill struggle is that usually the toughest visas to get are the ones left until…
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The BVI. Beefy. Tortola. The British Virgin Islands. This was actually a very last minute spontaneous adventure, as I just needed to escape Europe to backpack the Caribbean in December 2021. I’m sure more of that will come in the forthcoming book series – I had no idea where life was heading and I left…
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“When your turn comes round” – Neil Finn. I finally made Mozambique my 34th African country in April 2023 (and it was also my 216th recognised country). It helped me complete a jigsaw of the South of Africa. I had already been in 4 countries that border the Bique. They were South Africa (2011, 2020),…
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“Don’t say a prayer for me now. Save it for the Madagascar🇲🇬” – Duran Duran. Island countries seem to be my weak point in life and when I look at the long list of countries I still haven’t been to – no surprise most of them are islands. Despite 4 trips to the Caribbean, I’ve…
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