Nomadic Backpacker - About Me

My travels have taken me across 101 countries, travelling solo as a low budget traveller backpacker since 1992.


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

Current location: Mexico City, MEXICO


I have catalogued most of the highlights of my life on an updated post, A Life Of Travel, so make sure you check it out.

Overland Journeys:

 I have a passion for long overland journeys​:

  • ​London to Beirut (Lebanon)
  • Singapore to Islamabad (Pakistan)
  • London to Monrovia (Liberia)
  • Istanbul to Baku (Azerbaijan)
  • London to Seoul (South Korea)
  • Hong Kong to The Aral Sea (Uzbekistan)
  • Cairo to Cape Town
  • Dakar (Senegal) to Grand Bassam (Ivory Coast)
  • Belgrade (Serbia) to Sanliurfa (Turkey)

​Alphabetical List of Countries and Territories Visited (shows year of first visit):

​Last updated: July 27, 2022
  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. El Salvador 2022
  20. Estonia 2018
  21. Ethiopia 2015
  22. Finland 2018
  23. France 1993
  24. The Gambia 2013
  25. Georgia 2010
  26. Germany 1999
  27. Greece 2002
  28. Guatemala 2021
  29. Guinea 2013
  30. Guinea-Bissau 2013
  31. Hong Kong 2011
  32. Hungary 2008
  33. India 2010
  34. Indonesia 2001
  35. Ireland 2013
  36. Israel 2010
  37. Italy 1994
  38. Ivory Coast 2020
  39. Jordan 2010
  40. Kazakhstan 2015
  41. Kenya 2016
  42. Kosovo 2020
  43. Kyrgyzstan 2015
  44. Laos 2003
  45. Latvia 2018
  46. Lebanon 2010
  47. Lesotho 2016
  48. Liberia 2013
  49. Lithuania 2018
  50. Luxembourg 1999
  51. Malawi 2016
  52. Malaysia 2001
  53. Mali 2020
  54. Mauritania 2013
  55. Mexico 2020
  56. Moldova 2013
  57. Montenegro 2019
  58. Morocco 2008
  59. Mozambique 2016
  60. Myanmar 2004
  61. Nagorno Karabakh
  62. Nepal 2011
  63. The Netherlands 1990
  64. New Zealand 1998
  65. Nicaragua 2022
  66. North Macedonia 2020
  67. Norway 1999
  68. Pakistan 2011
  69. Philippines 2005
  70. Poland 2010
  71. Portugal 2019
  72. România 2010
  73. Russian Federation 2014
  74. Senegal 2013
  75. Serbia 2011
  76. Sierra Leone 2013
  77. Singapore 2001
  78. Slovakia 2010
  79. Slovenia 2011
  80. South Africa 2016
  81. South Korea 2014
  82. Spain 2007
  83. Sri Lanka 2016
  84. Sudan 2015
  85. Sweden 2005
  86. Switzerland 1998
  87. Syria 2010
  88. Taiwan 2013
  89. Tajikistan 2015
  90. Tanzania 2016
  91. Thailand 2001
  92. Transnistria 2019
  93. Tunisia 2020
  94. Turkey ​1999
  95. Ukraine 2013
  96. United Arab Emirates 2016
  97. The United States 1992
  98. Uzbekistan 2015
  99. Western Sahara 2013
  100. Vietnam 2000
  101. Zimbabwe​ 2016

Map of Countries Visited

​Last updated:   July 2022
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Timeline

​Last updated:  July 2022
2022 - Starting the year in Mexico City and in January, flight to Country 100, El Salvador. San Salvador Suchitoto, Santa Ana, Lago de Coatepeque. Returned to England. Then Back to Mexico!! Then back to El Salvador and into Nicaragua

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. Day trips in and around Mexico City, ending the year in Ziploite 

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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