"I'm a firestarter, twisted firestarter" - Keith Flint, The Prodigy OK so over the last lot of years backpacking the globe, I've got involved in some pretty crazy things, not just my crazy stories posts but that time I fed hyenas…

Passenger trains have been reintroduced in Madagascar. I ride the weekly 'Dia Tsara' Train from Toamasina to Brickaville.

"The river of dreams" - Billy Joel. A childhood dream was lived in April 2019, as I backpacked to the spot where the world's longest river, the Nile, begins. Starting its journey in the town of Jinja, Uganda, it winds its way right down to the Mediterranean Sea, Alexandria in Egypt being one departure city for this vast water mass.…

"It's all too beautiful" - Small Faces. Despite what the tourist brochures and obvious tourists tell you, Northern Ireland's charm lies not in Belfast and the Giant's Causeway!! Nor in the Bushmills Distillery and the Carrick a Rede Rope Bridge! Even though I promoted them to…

January 2020: Unstable Suicide I wrote this on trams in Warszawa city, Poland. Except for 1440 Faro which I first wrote in 1997 but saved it until I actually visited Egypt in 2019. 1.1440 Faro 2.She S...

Travelling by cargo boat down the Canal des Pangalanes in eastern Madagascar offers the backpacker some truly adventurous old-school travel.

While North Korea is hardly world renowned as a wacaday "party country" or somewhere to get ridiculously drunk and go on pub crawls, of course there are bars and restaurants there that are open to foreigners. Anyone who believes the biased western media excrement is…

Having travelled 19,000 km from Cairo, British backpacker Trevor Warman arrives in Cape Town and is attacked by two guys with knives.

"I'm a firestarter, twisted firestarter" - Keith Flint, The Prodigy OK so over the last lot of years backpacking the globe, I've got involved in some pretty crazy things, not just my crazy stories posts but that time I fed hyenas…

"By a lonely prison wall, I heard a young girl calling" - Pete Saint John. On a summer night as August 2025 came to a close, I embarked on yet another wild bar experience! It sio happened on the exact 18 year anniversary of…

My recent travels in Northern Ireland have proved something to me - you can travel in your home country and love it, and get surprised by it. After my adventures on the north coast of Northern Ireland, I returned to my…

I often like sublime, quiet and relatively unknown places just as much as the big, popular cities and towns. This particular "settlement", called Groomsport, is a Northern Irish village, located by the sea in the Belfast Lough, very close to Bangor and not too far away from…

Bangor-born blogger Jonny Blair has been travelling the world since 2003.

There are actually not as many footballers as you think who played for both Northern Irelandand England. Of course, there are many footballers born in England who have represented Northern Ireland dow...

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Sure Northern Ireland might have played Germany and West Germany loads of times down the years, but how many Northern Irishmen actually went over to Deutschland to work as a footballer? It would appea...