How To Buy Backpacking Centurion – Volume 3 – Taints And Honours on Amazon How To Buy Backpacking Centurion – Volume 3 – Lands Down Under on Amazon. My ongoing Backpacking Centurion Series is being released in four volumes. Three are available now and the fourth volume (The Black Volume) will take a bit longer, Read more about How To Buy Backpacking Centurion – Volume 3 – Taints And Honours on Amazon[…]
The Backpacking Centurion Hat-trick ( Trilogy / Trojmiasto / Tri-City) is now finally complete. This post lists the final chapter titles for all three books – Here is the full chapter listing – Backpacking Centurion – A Northern Irishman’s Journey Through 100 Countries Volume 1 – Don’t Look Back In Bangor Chapter 1 – Fool Read more about The Backpacking Centurion Hat-Trick ( Trilogy/ Trójmiasto / Tri-City ) Is Now Complete[…]
“It looks like we might have made it to the end” – Blur. So finally this week, the hat-trick is released. All three of my Backpacking Centurion books with the out-takes to come. 1 – Don’t Look Back in Bangor. 35 chapters, 297 pages. $19.82. 2 – Lands Down Under. 38 chapters. 292 pages. $19.86. Read more about Backpacking Centurion in 2015: Original Chapter Completion Before Splission and Title Changes[…]
I sometimes put my dreams into blog posts to try and help fathom them. I was touring the old town (of somewhere) with Elena (from Ukraine). It was a brick castle and there was a group of us on a hill. Elena had bought a zapiekanka for me. When I went to eat it, another Read more about The Dream About A Castle With Orange Peel On A Bed[…]
“It’s a weird and wonderful world if you come from Wimbledon” – John Motson. Being in lockdown and not having travelled to ANY new city/town/village in 13 months now, and no new countries or even a leaval of this country (Poland) has certainly given me time to release 4 books (a fifth one is almost Read more about Reminiscing The 1990s: The Time Wimbledon Played Real Madrid[…]
As 2008 continued, I started backdating a load of stories from my travels. Some of this I had already written on paper, and in my old diaries, some of it was fresh. A lot of this month was focused on my time at Bournemouth University where I did a lot of crazy things away from Read more about Glory Days Loyal: April 2008 All Blog Posts[…]
“Here am I. Going nowhere on a train. Here am I. Growing older in the rain” – Noel Gallagher. I broke 5 records today in my adult lifetime. Incredible!! Poland is the winner, it has beaten Australia and previously Northern Ireland as the longest time I have spent in one country as an adult. 22nd Read more about Not Backpacking Anywhere But Poland: I Broke My Adult Record of Time In ONE Country[…]
Get ready for this one. As a kid growing up in Northern Ireland, I watched football incessantly. At the 1982 and 1986 World Cups, Northern Ireland excelled and took on the world, playing 8 matches and the only 3 we lost were to World Cup winning countries (France, Spain, Brazil) we even beat Spain 1-0 Read more about “The Back Four” Project Release Their New Single – This Is Where It All Begins[…]