Afghanistan Travel; Taking My Mum to Kabul for a Holiday

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...

My 2016 Review – 30 countries, $200k+, 64 flights!

My 2016 Review – 30 countries, $200k+, 64 flights! As the new year bounces in with all too familiar hangovers and false promises, I think it’s important to take a while and reflect on our previous year. Too often, we get caught...

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...

Witnessing a Guy Getting Shot in Angola;

Witnessing a Guy Getting Shot in Angola; Crazy travel stories: My crazy travel stories from my trip to every country in the world just get crazier and crazier… My time in Africa was proving to be quite eventful, from crashing my renta...

Illegally Crossing from Venezuela to Colombia (this story contains grenades!)

I had spent the last ten days or so traversing Venezuela, a beautiful, complicated country. Home to the world’s tallest waterfall, Angel Falls, to arguably the most beautiful mountain in the world, Mount Roraima, and of course, home to perh...

The Night I Should Have Died – Breaking my Leg in Thailand, OUCH

It’s not all cocktails and sunsets on the this mad journey to every country in the world, I’ve had some pretty epic adventures throughout the last ten years since I left Ireland, but none were quite as painful as the time I bro...

Witnessing A ‘Sing-Sing’ In Papua New Guinea

Finding authentic experiences around the world is getting increasingly more difficult, you have to go further and further afield to really feel like you’re ‘traveling’ but once you do that, you’re in for a real treat. Papua New Guinea offer...

Visting Borat’s Home Town – Gold, Romania

I had heard a rumour that Borat’s home town (from the movie) was actually filmed in Romania, and with a rental car already sorted, in true tasteless fashion I sought it out with some serious vigour. After some online research we found out t...