Dark Tourism 🧵 1. Bin Laden Compound #Abbottabad Pakistan 🇵🇰

Less than 48 hours to go and I’ll be LIVE here on X to spin the wheel for the £1000. Still Oasis Glasgow tickets and Oasis Paris trip massively undersold Only 30 odd names on it currently but it still goes ahead🤝 (UK followers only) If you want in 👇🏻 cacompetitions.co.uk

On a pedaloo in Afghanistan Don’t get me started on them being called “pedalos”.. they’ve always been called pedaloos 🤝

Photo 1 is 4 years ago in Syria under the Assad Regime Phone 2 is last year under the new HTS (previously called the Al-Nusra Front) They used to be called Jabhat al-Nusra back in 2011 and were a direct affiliate of al-Qaeda. The leader of the Islamic State (IS) group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was also involved in the Al-Nusra Front formation. It was proscribed as a terrorist group by the UN, the US, Turkey and other countries But al-Jolani publicly broke ranks with al-Qaeda, dissolved Jabhat al-Nusra and set up a this new organisation, which took the name Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) when it merged with several other similar groups. Now all of a sudden because Jolani has put on a suit, he can walk into 10 Downing Street and conferences in New York and all is forgotten. Assad was a bastard and Syrians wanted rid of him but you ask Syrians about these new boys and 8 times out of 10 you’ll get the same reply. These guys are hardliners and everyone is waiting for their mask to slip before they turn Syria into something worse than Afghanistan. I spoke to many Syrians across different cities and the majority of them feel the same way. I managed to get one member of HTS to sit and chat to me (he made sure to remove his patches) which funnily enough were still the same ones ISIS used. He declared himself an “Islamist” his words not mine. He did say something that caught my attention tho.. if you listen to the clip i’ve attached, he said “The government is asking us to be kind to people” As opposed to what? The soldiers from the Assad Regime were given a window of opportunity to go to dedicated places set up across the country and sign the paperwork and hand in all weapons.. failing that, they would be dealt with. My prediction is Syria will be a lot worse in a few years when the mask slips and it’ll be very difficult for people to fight their way out of it. What do I know tho.. I’m just a guy from Coatbridge 🥸

None of it made it on YouTube

One of the hash smugglers I met on my travels for an interview which never got put online. Smuggled from Afghanistan He cut that bit off as a kind gesture but I don’t smoke the stuff 🥸 By all accounts, very good stuff but just looks like a bag of shit to me 😂

A moment many will remember seeing on the news

Who’s wanting to run the Sierra Madre Gauntlet with me I’ve sat for the last few hours putting this together, it might appeal to someone 👇🏻 Explore Juárez for a couple of days then travel from Juárez to Chihuahua City on the highway 45D. Then we drop straight south. If it’s more appealing, we can stick strictly to the toll roads which means we can keep the speed up. The desert stretches are vast and heavily monitored. Which sounds dodgy but will be funny because everytime we see a motor I’ll be giving it “that’s us fucked now” Then we head into the Heartland (highway 16 to highway 15D) Then we cut off west through big winding canyons of the Sierra Madre Occidental. (Zero phone signal at all here) Windows down during this part of the drive as there is masked checkpoints. Put the foot down to get into Culiacán before the sun drops. Couple of days mooching in Culiacán Then we do the mountain escape on highway 40D directly east out of Sinaloa We will cross approximately 115 bridges and pass through 61 tunnels. This also includes the massive Túnel el Sinaloense, which means driving through 1.7 mile of solid mountain rock. One of the bridges is called the Baluarte Bridge, which suspends the motor 1,322 feet above the canyon floor. If this sounds appealing, then that’s only the drive! That’s not including all the actual exploring in the triangle. All rounded off with a couple of beers in cancun 🍻 And in years to come when your in the boozer telling stories with the boys, you can hit them with the: “Let me tell you the story of the unreleased Sierra Madre tapes” 😮‍💨

Brazil 🇧🇷

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Coatbridge to Chicago South Side 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇸

Some Ukraine footage 🇺🇦

Mind that time I was walking around Odessa in Ukraine and spotted Kenny Miller IRA tattoo as well 😂

Ideal

I’ve just put up Two VIP Oasis Celtic Park tickets or IPhone 18 Pro Max And a DJI Drone Less tickets in these ones so if you want in then all you need to do is click the link and enter cacompetitions.co.uk Live draw here on X as usual and I’ll draw it early if gone🤝

You voted for Somalia the last time I done this 😂 I remember my arse twitching when the vote ended 😂 but it was done ✅ I was thinking we need to kick the travels off with a banger. One last Horrah around the world.. and we will leave it to a public vote…

Always makes me laugh When you watch documentaries and people like Ross Kemp, they make everything dead tense And if you are new on here I asked publicly on here what I should ask them.. and that was the question 😂 Pure awkward having to explain what council is🥸