Motivational Monday; Belief

So there I was, sitting in Bangkok, Thailand feeling a little dejected. The biggest goal of my life, to visit every country in the world , seems so close – 194/197 countries, just 3 little countries to go, yet I keep hitting a brick...

Sabang Beach, Palawan, Philippines; Everything You Need To Know!

Sabang Beach, Palawan, Philippines; Everything You Need To Know! UPDATED OCTOBER 2021. Firstly, for the record, the Philippines may well be the best country in the world to travel in. Having been to all 197 of the 197 countries on the plane...

Overland from Cape Town to Cairo – $10,000 very well spent!

Cape Town to Cairo! 19 countries, 7 months, $10,000USD spent. This Cape Town to Cairo blog post, I hope, should help show you guys what an epic trip can be had by independently traveling overland along the length of Africa. It took me 7 or...

Motivational Monday; 21 Day Challenge Body Transformation

My 21 day Transformation (including before and after pics!) I have 4 countries left on my journey to every country in the world. Oman, Yemen, Norway and Saudi Arabia. Yemen (EDIT: I hitched hiked 4 days in a cargo ship to get to Socotra, Ye...

Getting Invisalign in Bangkok; My Invisalign Journey

Getting Invisalign in Bangkok; My Invisalign Journey Getting Invisalign in Bangkok was one of the best decisions of my life. I’ve hated my teeth for more than 15 years, I was too stubborn as a kid to listen to my mum and get braces so...

Casa Wayra Review; Lima, Peru

I was staying in Lima for a few days, I was flying my (now ex) gf in and my mum was flying out both from Lima is it was a great transit point, all we needed was a cosy guesthouse, catch up with some work, a couple of nice dinners and we wer...

Buying a Condo in Bangkok, Thailand; Mortgage Free in My 20s

Buying a Condo in Bangkok, Thailand; My Story You know, buying a Condo in Bangkok Thailand was never the plan initially, but it became one of my best ever decisions. Leaving Ireland at 22 and traveling the world for years on end has proven...

Indoor SkyDiving in Sydney, Australia

Indoor SkyDiving in Sydney, Australia UPDATE NOVEMBER 2020: I’ve been skydiving in Australia and New Zealand before (awesome, but terrifying). I also accompanied my awesome, crazy mum to skydive for her 65th birthday in Ireland....

Dead Bodies and Bandits in the Ivory Coast; The worst travel day of my life

Reality bites. After being arrested twice earlier on in the day for illegally trying to smuggle ourselves out of the Ivory Coast, and into Liberia, and having spent 2 days in hellish conditions overland to get to the border town in the firs...

Illegally crossing borders; Getting Arrested Twice in the Ivory Coast PART 1

West Africa is something else. Traveling to every country in the world was always going to be hard, but I had made it to around 150 without doubting my ability to finish, but having spent April to December 2015 in West and Central Africa, I...

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Witnessing A ‘Sing-Sing’ In Papua New Guinea

Once you’ve created the life you wanna live, sometimes you find yourself in situations and think “Holy sh*t, how did I manage to do this? I hope it never ends”. I was backpacking around Papua New Guinea with one of my bes...

Travel to Nauru, the Least Visited Country in the World

The Least Visited Country in the World; Travel to Nauru What is the least visited country in the world? Officially Nauru (although on my list of the least visited countries in the world, Nauru comes with an asterisk!) A small country in the...