His Instagram account, which he started just over three months ago, already has over 84,000 followers.
"They went direct to Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Iraq, Kazakhstan – places that were pretty expensive to get to and that I'd normally never have gone to," he said.
"I started going away with my Dad when I could, or even without him, on these weird route networks. I thought, 'I want to see more,' and eventually thought, 'Now I want to go everywhere.'"
"Initially I was living with my parents, so I saved money on rent there," he said. "I worked three jobs at one point, and I started up a student events business in my second year which turned out to be lucrative — that's what made it happen."
"Syria was lovely when I went in 2011," he said. "I stayed in the Sheraton in Damascus and it was a completely different place back then. So many places have changed massively — I went to Kurdistan in north Iraq, which from what I hear in the press is now an awful place, but my photos of it are beautiful."
"It was probably the loneliest place — I broke up with an ex-girlfriend the day before I went there, and I went for four month by myself. I didn't speak a word of English for about the first two months — there was a large aspect of solitude and a lot of self-reflection."
"There were obviously some that I spent less time in — I went to Afghanistan during a war — but some I spent months in. I got a flavour of every country."
"I didn’t have a clue what I was doing but I bought a few stocks from UK banks when they were on their knees and I got really lucky," he said. "I managed to make a fair amount of money from that and basically spent it all traveling."
"A lot of people write articles about how you can trick the system — I wouldn't read too much into that, just keep looking for deals all the time," he said. "The first thing I do is search on Skyscanner 'London to Everywhere.'"
He added that it's important to "be smart on FX moves" and stay on top of what currencies have depreciated.
He also suggests signing up to airline emails to take advantage of their sales. "They obviously use their cheapest, super-discounted seats to promote their sales, and there are very few tickets that are at the price that they advertise, but they do have tickets at those prices."
"My parents helped me as much as they could in various ways, but I certainly didn't get any handouts. It obviously helps when you get financial help with the airfare, but a lot of the places I went for five months or something like that and was on a shoestring to get by."
"I worked in bars and hostels when I was in South America so I got food, drink, and accommodation for free — when you're backpacking, there's not really much else you're spending money on."
"I probably took about six different trips that were four or five months in length," he said. "I was 18 when it started, and finished when I was 24 and some amount of days."
On setting foot into his final country, he said: "It was a really weird feeling — I felt quite empty. I always joked that I would have a mid-life crisis at a young age, but it almost felt like that."
"There were times when I went to five countries in a day just for the purposes of getting a stamp," he said, adding, "I didn't have tickets from everywhere. I paid people in a jeep to take me to Somalia — it's not like I was going to turn around and say, 'Can I have a receipt please?'"
"I got an email saying 'Congratulations, you've got a Guinness World Record.' It was amazing."
"Everyone can write a travel book and there's lots of travel blogs out there, so I needed it to be official," he said. "I spent pretty much all of last year writing it — I started to do it while I was at work, but I realised it wasn't conducive to sitting in meetings talking about financial markets then coming home to write about the most amazing thing I'll probably ever do in my life."
"So I took loads of trips and basically just got in the mindset of writing while I was on them — I spent three and a half weeks in the South Pacific just sitting on the beach writing."
"If Europe was a country, it would be Europe because of the difference between Spain, Italy, Scandinavia... it's massively diverse, but it's the same from New York to Texas, Las Vegas, Alaska, and Hawaii. I think I've been to 29 states."
"I want to do something more extreme now, some sort of crazy marathon or something," he said. "I'm not going to be in a sail boat going across the Atlantic any time soon, but something a bit more edgy I guess."
"There are going to be so many other places that amaze me. There's so much more to see."
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