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What I enjoy in life is setting myself huge unbelievable challenges in life and figuring out a way to conquer them. Generally this is in the fields of Entrepreneurship, traveling, mountain climbing but I also have a passion for all things Engineering and Science.

If your keen on entrepreneurship or exploration or if you’ve just a curious mind keep reading …

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#RollingStones live in Dublin!

#RollingStones live in Dublin!

Third times the charm! 🍾 Finally got my Full un

Third times the charm! 🍾 Finally got my Full unrestricted 'A' Motorbike licence today, after two previous failed efforts by a single extra point on both occasions. Just back from NYC yesterday so still pretty jet lagged too! #SuzukiBandit650
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Future Motorbike adventures on the cards in the future now...Europe... Russia... Kazakhstan... Mongolia...China...USA...South America...NZ... Australia...East Africa...DRC (ok maybe not the last one!)

Just blowing off some steam #BlueLagoon #Iceland

Just blowing off some steam #BlueLagoon #Iceland

Emotional day #ImATank seeing two of my oldest fri

Emotional day #ImATank seeing two of my oldest friends tying the knot. Incredible day with incredible people @mchoey123 @stormey16 #MCsWalkofShane #MCandShanePoppinChampagne #Groomsmen #LickingStones

#Tagit the desert oasis, where the sand dunes meet

#Tagit the desert oasis, where the sand dunes meets the rocks just across from the Moroccan border in the central West of #Algeria #Sahara

Hitting cinemas this Hollowe'en ... #Chernobyl #Uk

Hitting cinemas this Hollowe'en ...
#Chernobyl #Ukraine.
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Crazy levels of radiation coming from this old robotic arm, hitting 500 CPM (Clicks Per Minute (on the Geiger Counter)) on the inside of the arm!! That is high BTW most of Chernobyl that tourists access is around 1 CPM.
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Horrible what happened here, hopefully it will be a lesson to us to understand the power and tragedy of a fission fallout and to be extra vidulant

The Kasbah! #Algiers #Algeria 🇩🇿

The Kasbah! #Algiers #Algeria 🇩🇿

After spending a few days on Bureh beach and Scuba

After spending a few days on Bureh beach and Scuba diving off Banana Island I'm loving the vibes of #Freetown #SierraLeone

Hiking weekend in Douki in Northern #Guinea Legs a

Hiking weekend in Douki in Northern #Guinea Legs are still burning after two pretty intense hikes called Wet & Wild and Chutes & ladders. The latter of which was a 20km trek down two cliff faces in the 30C+ heat, a walk through the valley on the bottom and a fairly steep climb back up about 1000 m or so over a few hours, with the help of a few wooden ladders made out of branches and vines!

Come on Ireland! #WorldCupQualifiers #ireland #mol

Come on Ireland! #WorldCupQualifiers #ireland #moldova

#Libya ! 🇱🇾 - exploring #Tripoli and #Leptis

#Libya ! 🇱🇾 - exploring #Tripoli and #LeptisMagna for a couple of days.
I was a little nervous about this one, considering Libya is just starting to come out of a civil war, with an Isis presence still in the country (although predominantly in the cresant of the country along the coast between Tripoli and Benghazi) .

The country basically has a number of various armed groups that have been fighting each other. Until now the current government which is recognised by the international community, was basically the strongest militia and they were able to dominate the smaller militias. This is only in the west of the country immediately around the Tripoli area.
Another group rules over the eastern side of the country around the Benghazi area. Which requires a different visa procedure.
The western border with Tunisia remains chaotic at times, the central coastal area has an Isis presence, the eastern side has its own issues and the south in the desert has a lot of tribal feuds that has been going on for centuries.
The Tripoli region remains ‘Lawless’ meaning there is a small ‘police’ (which isn’t actual police but military) that will let most things go but will step in, only in certain cases such as violence or armed groups starting to get violent.
Tripoli itself has no electrical power and is in complete darkness at night, due to a large power station being destroyed due to neglect. However businesses keep lights and air conditioning on with large generators. .

Although, we later witnessed the power station working a little bit when we drove to Leptis Magna (Roman ruins) about 120 km east. It appears the town's outside Tripoli are likely refusing to share this electricity with Tripoli (the capital) and there is not a whole lot the government can do as they don't have the resources to deal with it and they are a law onto themselves. .

All this being said, its interesting how I didn’t witness any violent crimes and I felt very safe walking around, although I did have a driver and translator with me I felt comfortable enough if I wanted to walk around on my own.
To get in you need a business visa as tourism is basically illegal as they don't feel its safe

Riding Rockets! #Armenia

Riding Rockets! #Armenia

Can't seem to stay away from these Rockets #Stalin

Can't seem to stay away from these Rockets #StalinLine #Minsk #Belarus

Catching up with the crew! #Gambia

Catching up with the crew! #Gambia

#NYC by night ... Love this city

#NYC by night ... Love this city

Exploring #Doha #Qatar 🇶🇦 . My Indian driver

Exploring #Doha #Qatar 🇶🇦 .
My Indian driver was pretty quiet to begin with unless he was trying to sell me something else if course, like a desert Safari...but once you gave that guy a camera to take a quick photo of you against the Doha skyline ... He turned 180° into a proper professional photographer! Left me feeling like Adriana Lima at the Victoria Secret fashion show 🤣
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Incredible that this skyline was built in about 16 years, before there was nothing in that area of the city. Just north of the center is the Pearl a man-made island which even has it's own version of Venice! That being Italy, not the Cali one 😬. Although it wasn't quite the same. They also have re-developed the old part of the city including the souk which now comes with a giant thumb or is it a toe 🤔 .
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Damn it was hot do. A lot of money was put into this city including the new national museum which recently opened.

Waterfalls in the amazing mountainous Fouta Djalon

Waterfalls in the amazing mountainous Fouta Djalon region of Northern #Guinea

Overlanding from Bahrain across the King Fahad Cau

Overlanding from Bahrain across the King Fahad Causeway into #Dammam in eastern #SaudiArabia 🇸🇦 all the way across to #Jeddah in Western Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea, by bus, about 1500km, passing just 30km north of Mecca which non Muslims can't enter.
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When I went here about a month ago I was one of the first official tourists in the country that was able to use the eVisa service. Up until recently there was no such thing as a tourist visa and to visit you had to figure out a way to get a very expensive and complex business visa or relatively easy pilgrimage visa but only if you were Muslim and going on pilgrimage to Mecca. You can see the amount of money they are pumping into tourism now with all of the massive events, sadly I didn't get invited to any! Lol.
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Got to explore views from the Al Faisaliah Tower which I was literally the only person on the viewing platform, so of course I had to be creative with my selfies 😂 little did I suspect that all the people in the restaurant just above could see me but I couldn't see them!
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Then it was off to the skybridge at Kingdom Tower (the cool building that looks like a bottle opener).
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Got to see some of old Riyadh too in the southern part of the city including the museum and 'chop chop square' which is so called because apparently it's were people are beheaded with a sword (still) 😬 it looked like they were setting up for a concert at that time 🤔 just outside Riyadh's fort.
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Then it was on to Jeddah about 1000km away by bus and not before a 25km trip to the bus station by taxi!
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Jeddah was cool and probably the least conservative city in KSA where they have the biggest flagpole in the world, the biggest water fountain in the world and currently in progress the tallest building in the world #JeddahTower just started in this picture. Got some Pakistani workers who wanted a picture with me in Jeddah old Town and a Pakistani Uber driver I met who's been to my hometown and used to live for years in Ireland. .
I even got in some Scuba Diving in the #RedSea the first time I've been back diving here since Egypt 10 years ago. The Red Sea is definitely the best place that I've found to dive so far.

#IraqiKurdistan this is know as that safe part of

#IraqiKurdistan this is know as that safe part of Iraq it is a semi automomous in the north of the country run by the Kurdish people.
This is Saddams's old palace in the north of the country, right on top of the mountain.
I traveled here with a local guide that I highly recommend- Karwan. Msg for details .
The guys with me are members of the Kurdish Persmerga forces who helped battle against ISIS and prevent them spreading and gaining further ground...they told me some crazy stories...
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After this trip I wanted to travel to Mosul which is ISIS's stronghold in Iraq although they have recently been pushed out. Unfortunately, we were meant to have an Iraqi general Joining us on this trip to Mosul as it required us passing through 4+ check points some operated by Iraqi militia but his wife was very sick...we ended up, traveling towards Kirkurk, located in Iraqi 'proper'

I'll take it from here! #GetToTheChopper

I'll take it from here! #GetToTheChopper

Arnold was here! #comingallday

Arnold was here! #comingallday

Most westerly point on the African mainland #Dakar

Most westerly point on the African mainland #Dakar #Senegal 🇸🇳
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First time back in Sub-Saharan Africa in exactly 9 years .... Good to be back to West Africa's unique culture! 😜 .
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Fun Fact ... After traveling to over half the countries in Africa this is the first time I passed through a Sub-Saharan airport which actually went surprisingly smooth! (The other African airports were Egypt and just this year Tunisia and Libya)

Rockets & Hyperloop

Rockets & Hyperloop

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