2025 - Coming soon!

2019 - Visited Andorra la Vella and Canillo between Xmas and New Year. Really nice place but not much to do there, unless you were doing winter sports. Only stayed a couple of days in Andorra.

2018 - Flew to Vienna after travelling around Scandinavia and Russia for a month. Spent a few days in Vienna before crossing the border and spending a few days in Bratislava.

2023 - Whilst travelling between Zurich and Munich, myself and a few mates spent a couple of days in Bregenz. Bregenz was a great place to break the trip up with and nice contrast between the 2 major cities.

2018 - Visited Belarus as part of a huge trip through Scandinavia and Russia. Crossed over from Russia and travelled to Minsk for a couple of days. The 2018 Football World Cup was on at the time of visiting and managed to see England get knocked out at a fan park in Minsk. Travelled to Brest on the Belarus/Poland border to see Brest Fortress before eventually crossing into Poland.

2017 - After finding ridiculously cheap November flights from Manchester to Charleroi (just outside of Brussels) at a cost of £10 return! I decided to take a day trip to the Belgian capital, had about 14 hours from landing to taking off again to spend in the country. I challenged myself to see as much of the city as I could.

2018 - Myself and a friend visited Luxembourg, but flew into Charleroi again, due to it being significantly cheaper than flying direct. Once we landed we got on a 2 hour each way bus to Luxembourg City.

2017 - Transitted through Bosnia at Nuem in order to travel between the Dubrovnik part of Croatia and rest of the country. Stopped in Nuem for some fuel because it was a lot cheaper! A bridge has now been built connecting the 2 parts of Croatia since I did this trip, meaning you don’t have to travel through Nuem anymore.

2023 - Really wanted to come back to Bosnia & Herzegovina after only spending a really short time there in 2017, after flying into Split, Croatia and picking up a hire car, I travelled first to Sarajevo for a few days before heading down to Mostar. Crossed back over to Croatia to hand back to hire car and fly back out.

2016 - Stayed in Sunny Beach, a resort on the Black Sea coast for a week with a group of mates. One of the most dodgiest places I have been to abroad! Area had a lot of issues with Roma Gypsies harassing people, stray dogs and Mafia visibly everywhere. Definitely not somewhere I plan on heading back to, but would love to see more of Bulgaria in the future.

2020 - Crossed from Thailand into Cambodia at the chaotic Poi Pet border crossing, spent a full week in Cambodia, visiting Siem Reap (including the stunning Angkor Wat temples), the capital Phnom Penh and its memorials to the Cambodian Genocide as well as a small overnight stop in Krong Kracheh before crossing into Laos.

2019 - Travelled to Toronto after finding really cheap flights with AirCanada. Spent most of the trip in Toronto itself (so much to see and do!) also ventured out to Niagara on the Lake and Niagara Falls itself one of the days. It was Canada Day whilst I was in Toronto which was great to experience.

2017 - Flew to Split and sailed for a week with Medsailors! Travelled from Split to Dubrovnik while passing through some of the islands off the coast. Stopped off on the islands of Vis, Hvar, Korcula, Sipan, Mijet and Sesula! Travelled back by road to Split after arriving in Dubrovnik.

2023 - Flew back to Split, but didn’t stay long! After picking up a hire car at the airport I was back out of the country within a couple of hours, using this visit just as a transit stop in order to travel to Bosnia & Herzegovina. Doing the journey in reserve at the end of the trip!

2016 - Visited Prague with my mates, was also the first ever European city break I took. At the time of visiting the 2016 Euro’s were on and so the vibe in the city centre was great!

2020 - Visited Prague again in late June, but with one friend this time. Was also the first trip I took after the start of the Pandemic and felt very strange to be away agin after spending so many months in the UK not being able to do anything! The break was much needed.

2022 - One again visited the Czech capital again Prague, this time it was solo. It was great to come back on my own and visit some of the sites that I did not get around to visiting on my last couple of visits and also to return to some of my favorite places!

2018 - Visited Denmark as part of a huge trip through Scandinavia and Russia. Entered Denmark at Gedser having just got off the ferry from Rostock. Travelled up to Copenhagen and stayed for a couple of days before heading onwards to Helsingor and getting another ferry onwards to Helsingborg.

2018 - Flew into Tallinn and stayed a couple of days in the Estonian capital before making my way down to Parnu and then across into Latvia. Tallinn is a really stunning place for a winter break and very medieval.

2018 - Visited Finland as part of a huge trip through Scandinavia and Russia. I had taken the overnight ferry from Stockholm and arrived into Helsinki in the morning, only had that day to see what I could of Helsinki due to my Russian visa starting the following day and I had to cross the border.

2001-2010 - Travelled the length of France mulitple times throughout this period in order to get to and from Spain overland, didn’t really see much except the French motorways, vast fields and service stations. In 2006, visited Boulogne-sur-Mer, which is just outside of Calais for a school trip.

2020 - Me and a friend visited Nice for 1 night in January, after finding some really cheap flights. We also headed over to Monaco whilst in Nice.

2016 - Travelled to Munich with a few friends for the 2016 Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich. Managed to see some of the city itself but most of the time was spent at the festival.

2018 - Used Frankfurt and Munich airports as transit stops a couple of times to places outside of Germany, but didn’t leave the airport either time. Also visited Berlin for a couple of days before starting a huge Summer road trip across Scandinavia, Russia and Eastern Europe.

2019 - Once again used Frankfurt, Munich and Berlin airports as transit stops a few times to places outside of Germany, but didn’t leave the airport either time. Was also the last time I visited Berlin Schönefeld airport before it was repurposed into T5 of the new BER airport.

2021 - Had an overnight stopover in Munich to get to Tivat, Montenegro. This was mainly due to the very limited flights available due to Covid. I was able to get to a lot of the sites that I didn’t see the last time when I was in Munich.

2022 - Visited Dusseldorf for a couple of days for a stag do. Went back to Oktoberfest again with a group of mates, having started our trip in Zurich and travelling over to Munich over a week.

2014 - First holiday I went on with my mates! 10 of us visited Kavos on the Greek island of Corfu for a week in June. Kavos is just a cheap holiday in the sun resort and the 18-30’s hotel we stayed was an absolute dump, but we still had a good time!

2015 - Visited Crete with same group of mates when to Kavos with for another cheap week in the sun. Found everything was really expensive and you couldn’t get any cash out anywhere (which was down to the Greek Banking crisis going on whilst we were there)

2017 - Visited the capital Budapest with my mates over a long weekend! Such a great city for a weekend away with your mates, with loads of things to see and do. It was extremely hot due to visiting in the thick of a European heatwave.

2017 - Visited Iceland between Christmas and New Year so it was very cold! Spent a couple of days staying in the capital Reykjavic and was lucky to be able to meet up with a few work mates that happened to be in Iceland whilst I was there! Took part in a day trip to the Blue Lagoon, Gullfoss, Geyser and Þingvellir NP!

2022 - Visited Iceland for a second time, but during late June. Once again stayed in Reykjavik and was able to see what has changed in the 5 years since I last visited. I hired a car one of the days and drove all the way to Vik, at the south point of the island. Once I got to Vik and saw the town I then drove back to Reykjavik, stopping at: Black Sand Beach, the Solheimasandur Plane Wreck, Skogafoss and Seljalandfoss. I also managed to get to experience the new Sky Lagoon thermal spring, which was not open the last time I visited.

2018 - Flew to Dublin for the weekend in November with some work mates, was able to get to the typical Dublin tourist sites like the Guinness factory and Temple Bar, as well as get to see the US play Ireland in Rugby Union at the Aviva!

2021 - Took the opportunity to visit Galway, this was my first trip of 2021 and it was quite late into the year, due to various COV-19 rules in place both in the UK and ROI. Flew out of Dublin to get back to the UK so crossed the country by train.

2018 - Visited Sorrento for a family wedding, a beautiful town on the Bay of Naples! After the wedding I hopped on the Frecciarossa high speed train up to Rome for a day of sight seeing before flying out of Rome that evening back to the UK. Also visited the Vatican whilst in Rome.

2019 - Flew to Bologna and travelled onwards to San Marino, spending some time in Bologna itself. Travelled overland from San Marino to Slovenia by a mix of busses and trains.

2023 - Visited Tokyo before making my way down to Osaka, stopping at Shimizu (managed to get a great view of Mt. Fiji from here) Minobu, Kyoto and finally Osaka. I largely travelled around using the Shinkansen’s and travelled back up to Tokyo to fly out of the country.

2025 - Coming soon!

2018 - After spending a couple of days in Estonia visiting Tallinn and Parnu, I crossed into Latvia and visited Riga for a couple of days, before heading on into Lithuania.

2020 - Crossed into Laos at the south of the country from Cambodia and spent a couple of days in Pakse, before taking an internal flight to the north and visiting Luang Prabang, Vang Vieng and Vientiane. Crossed back into Thailand at Nong Khai.

2018 - Whilst staying in Zurich for a long weekend to visit a Swiss friend, I took a day trip to Liechtenstein, a stunning Alpine country smaller than my home town of Barrow, that’s nestled in between Austria and Switzerland!

2023 - Once again visited Liechtenstein, whilst travelling between Zurich and Bregenz in Austria. This time with a group of mates. Given its size, saw pretty much the same sites as when I visited in 2018.

2018 - Crossed into Lithanania after visiting Estonia and Latvia. Spent a couple of days in the capital Vilinus before flying out and heading to the Netherlands! Wasnt really that impressed with the Lithuanian capital, found it rather boring and sketchy in some parts, but would like to visit some of the other parts of the country in the future.

2018 - Initially flew into Charleroi in Belgium due it being a much cheaper place to fly to when compared to flying direct, then transferred across on a 2 hour bus ride. Visited Luxembourg City for just 1 night to see what was there and as kind of expected not that much! The capital is impressive to see, being build around a valley but managed to see the main sites very quickly.

2017 - Travelled through Malaysia as part of an overland trip all the way from Bangkok to Singapore in July. We stopped in George Town on the island of Penang, visited the Cameron Highlands and its tea plantations, visited the capital city Kuala Lumpur and stopped in the fishing village of Melaka before crossing over into Singapore!

2019 - Visited Malta in early spring, where it was already quite warm due to its location in the Mediterranean Sea. Whilst staying in St. Julians Bay, I managed to visit Valetta, Paceville and Marsaxlokk. Despite its small size, there is so much to see in Malta and feels very familiar to the UK when you are there!

2020 - Popped into Monaco as part of a day trip from Nice with a friend. It was late January and so wasn’t very busy but everything was still open. Given the Principalities small size, we were able to see most of the touristy sites whilst there such as the Monte Carlo and the Palais Du Prince in just a couple of hours.

2021 - Sailed around the bay of Kotor and coasts with Medsailors for a week. Also visited Herceg Novi, Tivat, Perast, Budva, Lavender Bay and Kotor. Spent a couple of days afterwards in Kotor before flying home.

2023 - Travelled to Marrakesh over the Christmas break. Whilst staying in the city centre, I also travelled out to the Atlas Mountains, as well as took a trip out to the desert on some quad bikes! A great way to get away from the horrendous winter weather we were having at the time!

2018 - Only stopped in Amsterdam on a long transit having come back from Lithuania. Very much like when I visited Brussels, I tried to see as much of the Dutch capital as I could in 12 hours before flying back to Manchester. Definitely want to see more of the Netherlands in the future.

2024 - Travelled to Nepal in April to trek to the Everest Base Camp in aid of my local Hospice. Myself and 15 others from my home town trekked as a group up to Base Camp 1. Flying into Lukla, we stopped overnight in Phakding, Namche Bazaar, Pangboche, Dingboche, Lobuche and Gorak Shep. On the way back down from Basecamp we revisited Lobuche, Pangboche and Namche Bazaar before spending a couple of days in Lukla. We also managed a day either side of the trek to explore Kathmandu. As a group we raised over £66000 for our local hospice!

2025 - Coming soon!

2018 - Visited Belarus as part of a huge trip through Scandinavia and Russia. Crossed into Norway from Sweden we made my way to Oslo, spent a few days in the capital before visiting Voss, Geringer and Lillehammer and driving back over the border into Sweden.

2017 - Visited Krakow with 2 other mates in April, also took a day trip over to the outskirts of Oświęcim to see the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp from WW2.

2018 - Visited Krakow again in March for my cousin’s stag do. Visited Warsaw later on in the year, having travelled overland from Belarus. This was the final stop on my tour of Scandinavia, Russia and Eastern Europe that I took over a month in Summer!

2022 - Visited Gdansk in the north of Poland after finding some rediculously cheap flights online (£8 return!) wasn’t a great deal to do whilst there, mainly due to the time of year and also some of the COV-19 restrictions that were still in place in Poland, but still enjoyed the place!

2019 - Visited Lisbon at the start of the year! Such a great city with very stunning tiled details everywhere and a lot of hills! Found it to be one of the cheapest cities to visit in Western Europe I’d visited and also one of the safest to walk around. Hopped on the ferry to Almada whilst there, to visit the Christ the King statue (which was inspired by the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio, Brazil)

2017 - Flew through Hamad International on the way out to Thailand for my trip from Bangkok to Singapore. On the return, missed my connection back to Manchester (due to late departure from Singapore) so was put up in Doha for the night and put on the next flight back in the morning.

2018 - Opted to have a long transit in Qatar on my way out to Vietnam so I could see some of the sites of the capital (what I didn’t really get chance to do last visit) Flying back from Vietnam had 2017 repeat on me and had to stay once again in Doha due to a missed connection, flying back to Manchester in the morning.

2019 - Visited Bucharest for a long weekend, stayed in a great hostel which I found out was actually co-owned by a lad who lived very close to me back in the UK before he moved out to Romania. Despite looking a bit rough on the surface in some areas, Bucharest is a great city to visit.

2018 - Visited Russia as part of a huge trip through Scandinavia and Russia. Visited Saint Petersburg, Veliky Novgorod and Moscow. Was also very lucky to experience some of the 2018 Russia World Cup action whilst visiting, including a visit to the main fan park in Moscow with the famous Kotelnicheskaya building in the backdrop. Crossed onwards into Belarus.

2019 - Visited San Marino after travelling down from Bologna. Stayed in San Marino itself for just 1 night. Small place with incredible views but just not that much going on.

2019 - Visited with one other friend after having had Belgrade recommended to me by a travel contact as a must visit. A bit rough on the edges (and still showing a lot of its scars from the war in the 90’s) the city had a great vibe and some really decent bars. The exchange rate also meant that we pretty much just couldn’t spend our money!

2017 - The last stop on my overland trip all the way from Bangkok down to Singapore. Crossed into the country at the Johor Bahru checkpoint in Malaysia. Spent most of the time around the Clarke Quay area and visited Marina Bay Sands. Unfortunately wasn’t a lot of time spent in Singapore, but a great reason to return!

2018 - Visited Bratislava for a couple of days after visiting Vienna for a couple of days. It only takes about an hour by bus to travel between the 2 cities and there is no border due to both countries being in the Schengen area.

2019 - Travelled over from Italy after having visited San Marino. Stayed in the capital Ljubljana for a few days and travelled up to see Lake Bled. Visited out of season so it was quiet but still an enjoyable place to visit.

1998-2010 - The first country I visited and definitely what kicked off my love for travel! Every year between this these years we visited different resorts in Spain, from the Costa Brava, Costa Dorada and even visited Minorca in the Balearic Islands. On a couple of occasions we took trips to Barcelona and the FC Barcelona stadium for a couple games.

2016 - Visited Benidorm in Valencia with a couple of work mates for a few days in September. Just a cheap last minute holiday in the sun (was also my first trip to Benidorm)

2017 - Visited Malgrat in Costa Brava over a weekend to catchup with a few of the locals that I had not seen in a long time (since 2010!)

2018 - Visited Benidorm again but with a different bunch of mates. We were out in Spain whilst the opening matches of the 2018 Football World Cup were being played and were able to watch them in the bigger bars with all the English fans. This was about 3 weeks before I was in Russia myself on my Scandinavia, Russia and Eastern Europe tour!

2019 - Travelled to Andorra la Vella in late December, but flew to and from Barcelona (due to Andorra not having an airport of its own) and drove up.

2022 - Visited Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands for a week with my mates in July. A good old week in the sun, all inclusive! Great to get away with everyone, which was also the first time we had been abroad as a group since the start of the pandemic.

2023 - Travelled back to Malgrat in the Costa Brava to catch up with some family friends, having last seen them in 2017.

2018 - Visited Sweden as part of a huge trip through Scandinavia and Russia. Initially crossed on the ferry to Helsingborg from Helsingor. Travelled up to Norway for a week travelling before crossing back into Sweden and across to Stockholm. Stayed in Stockholm for a few days before boarding a ferry to take me over to Finland.

2018 - Took the opportunity to visit a Swiss friend in Zurich over a long weekend in August. Took a day trip over to Liechtenstein, which is just over an hour on the train.

2022 - Visited Zurich again with group of friends, before travelling onwards to eventually head to Oktoberfest in Germany. Saw most of the same sites as when I visited in 2018.

2026 - Coming Soon!

2017 - Flew into Thailand and started an overland trip all the way from Bangkok to Singapore in July. In Thailand I visited the Khao Sok NP, Surat Thani and Ko Samui, eventually carried on south to the Thai/Malaysian border. This was also my first international trip away on my own and definitely what really gave me the travel bug!

2020 - Once again flew into Bangkok to start another overland trip, eventually crossing into Cambodia and then Laos before reentering Thailand at Nong Khai in the north of the country and getting an overnight train back to Bangkok. Only really used Thailand as a point of entry and exit for this trip as it is easier to fly into BKK than some of the other places I visited on this trip. This was also the last trip I took before the COV-19 pandemic completely grounded international travel, which was about 2 weeks after I got back to the UK!

2022 - Visited Istanbul for a couple of days before flying down to Dalaman and sailing for a week around the southern coast with Medsailors! Stopped in Gocek, Karacaoren, Kalkan, Coldwater Bay, Fethiye, Tomb Bay and Kapi Creek whilst sailing.

2018 - Travelled to Kyiv in April with one other friend. Saw the sites in Kyiv itself and also travelled to the Chernobyl Power Plant and Exclusion Zone after finding out you could do tours to the area.

2020 - Stopped off in Dubai on a long transit (3 days) between flying between UK and Thailand. Stayed around the Dubai Creek area and visited most of the famous Dubai tourist sites. Decent amount of time to get the main highlights in but definitely want to go back and see more of the UAE.

2018 - First trip to the USA and also the continent of North America, visited New York for a week seeing all of the typical tourist sights. I was mainly on Manhatten on this trip, with a ferry ride over to Staten Island. The ferry ride was the free way to see the Manhatten skyline from the Upper Bay. This trip gave me the urge to come back to America and also visit other parts of New York city, as you just cant see it all in one trip!

2019 - My and my mates took a week long trip to Las Vegas in September. Managed to get to all the main sites on the main strip. Flew out to the Grand Canyon one of the days and then drove back out passing the Hoover Dam to go kayaking in the Colorado River.

2022 - A week long trip to New England and Washington DC! Flew into Boston and immediately headed into Conneticut for a long weekend to visit a few friends in the New London/Mystic area, also headed up to Foxwoods Casino whilst in the area. After the weekend I took an internal flight down to Washington DC to see some of the main sights down there, before catching a return domestic flight back to Boston, to see the city properly for a few days, before flying back home! This was also my first trip outside of Europe since the start of the pandemic and felt great to back on a wide body flight again!

2023 - Visited Cape Canaveral, FL as part of a work trip. Whilst in Cape Canaveral I managed to see parts of city with free time, including the Kennedy Space Center and Cocoa Beach. Revisited the USA later in the year, visiting; Nashville, Memphis and New Orleans (hired a car to get between the cities) before flying up to CT and spending a couple of days in Mystic and the surrounding area visiting some friends.

2018 - Popped into the Vatican City state, as part of a trip to Rome in May, it happened to be a Sunday when I visited and luckily I was able to get a glimpse of Pope Francis delivering prayers to everyone standing in St. Peters Square. Was only in the state for a couple of hours.

2018 - Travelled Vietnam overland from bottom to top in late October! Starting in Ho Chi Minh City, then travelled to Hanoi via Na Trang, Hoi An, Hue and Ha Long Bay! Using a mixture of overnight trains, mini buses and taxis! It was also my 25th birthday whilst I was in Hanoi! The overall trip was spoilt right at the very end when I had food poisoning whilst travelling home, not ideal when you are on 2 back to back long haul flights!

2016 - Isle of Man 🇮🇲 - Visited the Isle of Man with some family and friends in June to see some of the Isle of Man TT action. Took push bikes with us on the ferry and used them as the method of transport for us on the island.

2021 - Gibraltar 🇬🇮 Was supposed to visit Gibraltar towards the start of Spring 2021 when the British Oversees Territory was placed on the UK COV-19 green travel corridor list, however this had to be postponed due to personal circumstances. Was so pleased to finally get to visit this amazing little piece of the Britain in the sun in September 2021.

2022 - Faroe Islands 🇫🇴 Visited the Faroe Islands in June 2022, hired a car for 5 days and drove to several places across the islands. These places included, Gasadular, Gjogv, Vidareidi, Klaksvik, Kunoy Park and Torshavn. I also managed to get to see Faroe Islands national football team play Lithuania!

2023 - Isle of Man 🇮🇲 - Returned to the Isle again in August to see some of the Isle of Man Classic TT action, great opportunity to see some areas of the island which didn’t get around to seeing last time. Like last time took the push bike with me on the ferry so could get around quicker over there!

2024 - Isle of Man 🇮🇲 Back again on the island, however visited this time for the Southern 100, based out of Castletown, it was also the first time I visited the Isle of Man on the motorbike too! Managed to get a to a lot of places on the island I’d never managed to get to before too, including Peel, Ramsey, Laxey and Port Erin.

2025 - Jersey 🇯🇪 Coming soon!

2025 - Guernsey 🇬🇬 Coming soon!