“The tunnel of love might amuse you, Noah’s Ark might confuse you” – Richard Thompson. The idea of this trip overland/oversea/undersea was an amalgamation of factors. Firstly because recently I got so fed up with airlines. Every single trip I have done since 2021 has had at least one flight delay, cancellation or change. In…
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“DON’T STOP LIVING” – High School Graffiti in Toronto, Canada (September 2001). I’ve told this story quite a lot down the years, but things get missed and overlooked that it merits a post of its own, especially now that life finally went fool circle (not full circle) as I finally went back to the “High…
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“Don’t tell me it’s not worth fighting for” – Bryan Adams. Tears drained naturally from my eyes when I heard this Bryan Adams song being sung in a bar I once worked in – 21 years later, in a hotel I once stayed in – 31 years earlier. The Heathlands Hotel in East Cliff, Bournemouth,…
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“Give me one more chance and you’ll be satisfied. Give me two more chances and you won’t be denied. Even better than the real thing” – U2. Even in December 2024 as the AI Revolution threatens to kill book writing, blogging and any form of human brain creativity and separatism, I still come across internet…
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Jonny Blair – Showing How I Write Real Travel Blogs From My Travel Notes And Files – October 2024.🌎ðŸŒðŸŒðŸªðŸ’«ðŸ¤³ðŸ»ðŸ“¸ðŸ“✍️🧑ðŸ»ðŸ’» This video explains and shows the procedure of REAL travel bloggers. You travel and while you travel, you write (with a pen/paper) notes everywhere you go about everything that might be important for others. Then, you…
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“I’m just a notch in your bedpost, but you’re just a line in a song” – Fall Out Boy. It’s the 3rd of November 2024. This travel blog started in on the 27th of August 2007 – well over 17 years – Wow! Sometimes it doesn’t even feel like it has been 17 years of…
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“Sing a sad song in a lonely place, and try to put a word in for me” – Noel Gallagher. Back in 2010, I spent just short of 6 months living and working in Tasmania. It was a totally magical time of my life! In that time, I worked with a Devonport based agricultural company…
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Wactionary (Wacky Dictionary) Rough translation guide from Northern Irish and Jonny Blairish intill English: acronymically – in the form of an acronym whereby the first letters of each word in the sequence are placed together one after the other to form a new word afforequoted – quoted before aftermathically – in the aftermath and worked…
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** 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…
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“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…
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