Stay a night in the cells at Napier Prison
For backpackers who want somwhere to write home about, stay at Napier Prison!
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World’s craziest food festivals
If you have a cast iron stomach then these weird food festivals might be for you!
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Sawdust spa in Taiwan
Being buried in sawdust to sweat it out for as long as I could handle was not the spa experience I was expecting in Taipei when I booked a Hinoki Enzyme Bath…
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Nude calendars and the A&P Show
The A&P Show is more than side show rides and animal parades!
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Look what a tweet can do!
When in trouble, tweet! I was in Singapore just passing through to London to start a Rail Europe 8-day chug through Belgium, France and Switzerland. This was my room: a cheap as chips room kinda far from anywhere, and let’s be frank, kinda sad. Then I tweeted. Aagh stuck in dingy hotel in Singapore!,” I said….
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Dipping my toes into the ticklish fish foot massage trend
Try this freaky fish-eating foot spa – if you can handle it!
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From buckets to beats: Exploring San Francisco’s Bucket Man
Update: I’m sorry to hear that Bucket Man, Larry Hunt, has died, aged 64 on 1 March 2023. I met Bucket Man years ago, the famous busker in San Francisco, who I hoped was millionaire by now. He was featured in Will Smith’s movie Pursuit of Happyness. These days Larry Hunt (that’s his name) gives…
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Stingray feeding frenzy in the Cayman Islands
We just spent the day on my brother’s friend Jacko’s boat and the boys jumped onto the sandbar at Cayman Island to feed these huge Southern Stingrays juicy squid. Here is the freaky frenzy that follows. Their mouths are underneath in the middle of their bellies, so you have to hold the squid in a…
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Dance like no one will tell you off
My first ever blog post!
