South Sudan Travel; Staying with the Mundari Tribe South Sudan travel can be tricky, but visiting the Mundari tribe makes it so, so rewarding. Over the years, I’ve made a lot of friends in the more obscure countries in our beautiful p...
Rowing Across the Atlantic Ocean; My Experience So, yeah, I’ve just finished Rowing Across the Atlantic Ocean. 2 hours rowing, 2 hours resting, 24 hours a day for 2 months. Trying to sleep in 12 30 minute bursts each day. I hate to so...
Travel to Somalia; How I Traveled to Mogadishu I’ll admit it, I was scared to travel to Somalia properly, and even back in 2010 during my overland trip from South Africa to Syria by public transport stint, when I had the chance to vis...
Running the North Pole Marathon (and getting stuck in the Arctic!) “The Coolest Marathon in the World”. That’s the tagline of the North Pole Marathon, and it’s pretty hard to argue with (although I also ran the Antarctica Marathon in 2024,...
Visiting The Gates of Hell, Turkmenistan; EVERYTHING You Need To Know in 2024! Visiting The Gates of Hell Turkmenistan is a tricky task to accomplish. Turkmenistan is one of the most difficult countries in the world to get a visa for. I was...
Lessons from turning 40 I turned 40 yesterday. And I do it with gratitude, with no negative attachments to getting older. Equally, I don’t have it all figured out, and mostly I make it up as I go along but it’s going ok for me s...
Riding the Iron Ore Mauritania Train across the Sahara Desert in Mauritania Riding the iron ore train Mauritania is one of the best travel experiences in the world. That’s why I run trip s there regularly, COME JOIN ME IN 2024 HERE! I...
What are the Seven Summits? A List in the Order of Height, Cost, Difficulty etc So what are the 7 summits? The seven summits are the 7 highest mountains on each continent Climbing the seven summits first became a ‘thing’ when Ri...
Travel to Syria; How We Did it Is it safe to travel to Syria? Can you travel to Syria? The answer is yes, it just takes a bit of planning in advance (or even better, come with me on my next trip! Email me for more details). I visited Syria...
Marathon Des Sables; My Experience Running 6 Marathons in 6 Days in the Sahara What is the Marathon Des Sables? It’s a slightly less cool version of the Eye of the Sahara Ultra Marathon in Mauritania, one of the hardest marathons in t...
Afghanistan Travel; Taking My Mum to Kabul for a Holiday My mum is 60 something, she was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease 3 years ago, but she loves to visit me as I travel to every country in the world. As I’ve got closer to...
A Short Story about Kindness; Missing flights, Breaking Bones, and Losing Bags on Christmas Day In Ireland, they say bad news comes in threes, right? I can testify to that. But rather than dwell on what went wrong on my winter in Korea (a l...
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