Nomadic Backpacker - World Traveller - Global Nomad

Nomadic Backpacker: World Traveller - Global Nomad

Travelling the world solo, since 1992, as a low budget backpacker.

Former racing cyclist, mountain runner, electronic technician, waiter, postman, now a perpetual global nomad, with a passion for long, overland journeys.

​There ain't nowhere I won't consider going.
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​I have profiles on bio.link and about.me

​I have written 10 covid-themed blog posts for Vagabond Journey

I have been featured at length on Dontstopliving, Everycountryintheworld and made a cameo appearance on Thisiswanderlust

I appeared on the One Step Beyond podcast

And the Oaxaca Post wanted my material too. Shame I didn't get any 'reward' for it.

​I am running a new series: "Top 3 Favourite Countries of Fellow Travellers, Backpacker and Bloggers"

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99 Countries and counting. See the map and list below:

​Overland journeys:
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London to Beirut, Singapore to Islamabad, London to Monrovia, Istanbul to Baku, London to Seoul, Hong Kong to The Aral Sea, Cairo to Cape Town, Dakar (Senegal) to Grand Bassam (Ivory Coast), Belgrade (Serbia) to Sanliurfa (Turkey).

Map of Countries Visited

​Last updated:  October 2021
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​Alphabetical List of Countries and Territories Visited (shows year of first visit):

​Last updated: October 2021
  1. Abkhazia 2015
  2. Albania 2019
  3. Armenia 2010
  4. Australia 1992
  5. Austria 1999
  6. Azerbaijan 2013
  7. Belarus 2018
  8. Belgium 1993
  9. Bosnia & Herzegovina 2011
  10. Brunei 2003
  11. Bulgaria 2010
  12. Cambodia 2011
  13. Canada 1992
  14. China 2011
  15. Croatia 2011
  16. The Czech Republic 2008
  17. Denmark 1999
  18. Egypt 2010
  19. Estonia 2018
  20. Ethiopia 2015
  21. Finland 2018
  22. France 1993
  23. The Gambia 2013
  24. Georgia 2010
  25. Germany 1999
  26. Greece 2002
  27. Guatemala 2021
  28. Guinea 2013
  29. Guinea-Bissau 2013
  30. Hong Kong 2011
  31. Hungary 2008
  32. India 2010
  33. Indonesia 2001
  34. Ireland 2013
  35. Israel 2010
  36. Italy 1994
  37. Ivory Coast 2020
  38. Jordan 2010
  39. Kazakhstan 2015
  40. Kenya 2016
  41. Kosovo 2020
  42. Kyrgyzstan 2015
  43. Laos 2003
  44. Latvia 2018
  45. Lebanon 2010
  46. Lesotho 2016
  47. Liberia 2013
  48. Lithuania 2018
  49. Luxembourg 1999
  50. Malawi 2016
  51. Malaysia 2001
  52. Mali 2020
  53. Mauritania 2013
  54. Mexico 2020
  55. Moldova 2013
  56. Montenegro 2019
  57. Morocco 2008
  58. Mozambique 2016
  59. Myanmar 2004
  60. Nagorno Karabakh
  61. Nepal 2011
  62. The Netherlands 1990
  63. New Zealand 1998
  64. North Macedonia 2020
  65. Norway 1999
  66. Pakistan 2011
  67. Philippines 2005
  68. Poland 2010
  69. Portugal 2019
  70. România 2010
  71. Russian Federation 2014
  72. Senegal 2013
  73. Serbia 2011
  74. Sierra Leone 2013
  75. Singapore 2001
  76. Slovakia 2010
  77. Slovenia 2011
  78. South Africa 2016
  79. South Korea 2014
  80. Spain 2007
  81. Sri Lanka 2016
  82. Sudan 2015
  83. Sweden 2005
  84. Switzerland 1998
  85. Syria 2010
  86. Taiwan 2013
  87. Tajikistan 2015
  88. Tanzania 2016
  89. Thailand 2001
  90. Transnistria 2019
  91. Tunisia 2020
  92. Turkey ​1999
  93. Ukraine 2013
  94. United Arab Emirates 2016
  95. The United States 1992
  96. Uzbekistan 2015
  97. Western Sahara 2013
  98. Vietnam 2000
  99. Zimbabwe​ 2016

Timeline

​Last updated: August 2021
2021 - The year continues from Zipolite in Mexico and on to Oaxaca and an extended stay in Mexico City and San Cristobal. Crossed to Guatemala. And in early August, returned to Mexico

2020 - The year starts with a bang. London to Paris to Marseille and onto Tunis, Senegal, Mali and Cote d'Ivoire. Lockdown in Kenya. Escaped to Serbia then to Kosovo, Albania ended up in isolation for 14 days in North Macedonia and then went to Turkey. And onto Mexico. Ended the year on a beach in central Mexico.

2019 - Working as much as I can in the UK. A quiet year on the travel front. Work aside, pretty much a recluse. But squeezed in a trip to Lisbon, Portugal and Moldova/Transnistria + Albania, Montenegro, Croatia but ended the year by quitting my job thus preparing the way to be back on the road.

2018 - Working in the UK as a postman. Travels to Belarus, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany, Denmark. 

2017 - Malaysia, Philippines, Turkey, Georgia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan - hostel volunteer, Romania. Back to the UK ending 1423 days on a single journey. Working in the UK.

2016 - Cairo to Cape Town - Overland: Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Lesotho, ending 7 months Cairo to Cape Town. Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan - hostel volunteer, UAE, Malaysia.

2015 - China, Hong Kong, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Georgia, Armenia, Nagorno Karabakh, Abkhazia. Began Cairo to Cape Town - Overland: Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia.

2014 - New Year's Eve at the revolution in Kyiv, Ukraine. Trans-Siberian from Moscow to Vladivostok, South Korea - travelling + hostel volunteer 2 months, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Sumatra, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, China, Hong Kong

2013 - London to Monrovia - West Africa - Overland: Marrakesh, Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Paris, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan. Living and working in Switzerland Summer 6 months. Began a trip which lasted 1423 days. Belgium, Holland, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Moldova

2012 - Down and out in the UK. desperate times. Working in County Clare, Ireland as a waiter, 6 weeks. Living and working in Switzerland, 6 months. Began London to Monrovia - West Africa - Overland: France, Spain, Morocco.

2011 - India, Nepal, SE Asia  - Singapore to Islamabad, Pakistan w/o flying. Turkey, Bulgaria, Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, Italy, Slovenia, Austria, Czech, German, to the UK after 18 months 549 day on a single trip. 

2010 - Working in Switzerland, Winter. Began a 549-day trip. Holland, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, India.

2009 - Working in Switzerland, Winter + Summer. Travels in Spain, Morocco.

2008 - Working in Switzerland, Winter and Summer. Travels in Spain, Morocco, Germany, Czech, Hungary and India

2007 - Working in Switzerland. Travels in France, Spain, Corsica.

2006 - Working in Switzerland. Travels in the Philippines, Borneo and Indonesia

2005 - Working in Switzerland. Travels in Borneo and Philippines

2004 - Working in Switzerland. Travels in Borneo and Burma

2003 - Working in Switzerland. Travels in Borneo, Brunei and Laos

2002 - Working in Switzerland, travels in Greece and Germany. Living in the UK.

2001 - Travels in Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, East Coast Australia, Working in Switzerland

2000 - Working in the UK, Living 2 months in Switzerland. Travels in Vietnam

1999 - Working in the UK, Travels in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Luxembourg, Switzerland. Hiking in the Alps. Germany, Austria, Italy

1998 - Travels in New Zealand and Switzerland. Working in the UK.

1997 - Working in the UK. Travels in Australia. 2nd trip as a backpacker.

1992/1993 - 1st trip as a backpacker, Australia and Canada.

1990 - Walked Lands End to John O'Groats. 1700 km. Trip to Holland.

​1983 - First trip out of the UK. School trip to Boulogne, France.
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