This Travel Blog, Don’t Stop Living is Fifteen Years Old Today!!

** Don’t Stop Living is Fifteen Years Old Today!! ** “Where were you while we were getting high?” – Noel Gallagher. On the 27th August 2007, I wrote the first ever blog post on Don’t Stop Living, here it is. The photo above was also the first ever photo to grace that travel blog. It Read more about This Travel Blog, Don’t Stop Living is Fifteen Years Old Today!![…]

15 Years Ago This Month: Front Page Of The Times – I Work In Bite Communications

“You’re getting off at Ravenscourt Park for Bite Communications” – Jonny Blair (2007). Whether the high flying life of London city and the world of PR was for me or not is history’s garbage tin. It was 15 years ago this month, I softly slipped away from the world of office work and the bright Read more about 15 Years Ago This Month: Front Page Of The Times – I Work In Bite Communications[…]

15 Years Of Don't Stop Living: Every Blog Post 2007 - 2022!!

15 Years Of Don’t Stop Living: Every Blog Post 2007 – 2022!!

“God damn right – it’s a beautiful day” – The Eels. Well that crept up fast. FIFTEEN FUCKING YEARS passed you and I nonchalantly by, for better or worse. “And on the streets tonight, an old man prays with newspaper cuttings of his glory days” – Nick Wire. (“And on the streets tonight, an old Read more about 15 Years Of Don’t Stop Living: Every Blog Post 2007 – 2022!![…]

My Latest Book: I Went To Gdańsk With Somebody – How A Northern Irishman Ended Up In Poland

“I want to dance with somebody” – Whitney Houston. I am proud to announce that my latest book, I Went To Gdańsk With Somebody is now on sale!! Following my “Backpacking Centurion” series, this next book, “I Went To Gdańsk With Somebody”, is the story of how I ended up in Poland. My “Backpacking Centurion” Read more about My Latest Book: I Went To Gdańsk With Somebody – How A Northern Irishman Ended Up In Poland[…]

Podcasting Travel Writer: The Best Podcasts I Have Been On

On this post, I am including some of the best Podcasts I have done through the years. I am not including online videos, radio interviews, television interviews or speeches at events. These are just the actual Podcasts which can be downloaded and listened to. Most of them are still online and I have placed the Read more about Podcasting Travel Writer: The Best Podcasts I Have Been On[…]

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How To Work With Brands As A Blogger: Top 5 Tips

“You can have it all if you want” – NOT Stereophonefish. Being a veteran blogger doesn’t exactly excite me any more. All the cool stuff happened years ago. Days become mundane. I slept in over 1000 hotels, hostels and shacks on a wacaday journey. Bedhopping incites no love affairs. I was given guided tours of Read more about How To Work With Brands As A Blogger: Top 5 Tips[…]

Backpacking Centurion Volume 1 - Don't Look Back in Bangor - FINALLY Released 25th June 2020

Backpacking Centurion Volume 1 – Don’t Look Back in Bangor – FINALLY Released 25th June 2020

“Although loneliness has always been a friend of mine, I’m leaving my life in your hands” – Backstreet Boys. The 25th June 1982 was a day to remember for the Northern Ireland football team. By no mere coincidence, and five years later than billed, on the 25th June 2020, I finally release the first volume Read more about Backpacking Centurion Volume 1 – Don’t Look Back in Bangor – FINALLY Released 25th June 2020[…]

Working Wednesdays: My First 5 Book Appearances

 During the pandemic, I was able to finally release my first solo printed book series (Backpacking Centurion), along the wayside, I forgot I already had appeared in 5 books before that. A hat-trick of E’s and a brace of printed ones. For today’s Working Wednesday, I thought I would put them all on one Read more about Working Wednesdays: My First 5 Book Appearances[…]