The Jinja Blog

Where next for the man who has been everywhere...?

On the first of January 2009, I crossed the River Plate from Argentina to Uruguay. Thus began The Odyssey Expedition my incredible, hilarious and occasionally terrifying four year journey to every country in the world without flying, as accredited by Guinness World Records™.

You can read all about The Odyssey Expedition by tapping on the link below.

I officially finished the journey at the end of January 2013 and by the summer of that year I was already ready for my next adventure, and so I signed up to be a contestant on SOS Island: a Samsung-sponsored survival show hosted by Les Stroud.

And guess what? I won.

The prize was $100,000 towards an island adventure of my choice. Thus began The Road To Jinja Island.

But before becoming the lord and master of my very own taste of paradise, my girlfriend and I ran around Belize, Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras on what we called The Ruta Maya.

We then travelled south to Bocas Del Toro, Panama where I embarked on an three-year long adventure living off-grid on the tropical island I named Jinja Island.

Check Out The Jinja Island Blog

SOS Island Boot Camp Day 1: SHELTER

Monday 30th September 2013 Day One started a bit like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCjLS4lLBWM Then this happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS8yaHtl_Us And then we went LIVE TO THE WORLD!! Sadly,

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SOS Island | Introductions

Sunday was spent getting to know the other contestants – Murad from Jordan, Veronica from Italy, Rosa from Texas, Brittany from LA, Robin from Sweden, Chris from LA, Kalyn from Canada, Liron from Israel, Tom from Perth, Alex from Moscow, Tan from Sydney, Natalie from Brighton, Jo from South Africa, Karen from Boston and the aforementioned Mert from Istanbul.

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Hell’s Noodles

Monday 23rd September 2013 – Part 2 RANT ALERT!! Today involved a LOT of scooting around on the New York Subway system. When I was

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A Christmas Coral

December 2015 I don’t know if you know this, but I’m a *bit* of a Star Wars fan. Having missed my opportunity to see Mad

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