Lockdown has taken its toll, travel doesn’t really exist anymore, meeting your mates “down the pub” is done on zoom, so what next? We need new and exciting ideas for things to do without going outside – things to keep us occupied in the safety of our own homes, even if it means being mask Read more about Introducing 20 Dreams: A Excellent New Game To Play At Home[…]
By March 2008, my broken leg bone hat-trick was beginning to heal and though I didn’t travel much, I was in two countries that month – England and Northern Ireland. I made plans to visit Scotland again in May 2008. I had started to backdate and document my life in more detail by now. As Read more about Glory Days Loyal: March 2008 All Blog Posts[…]
It was in February 2008 that I started to reminisce a lot more and write about glory days, some of these posts were written from memory, many of them them simply from my handwritten diary. Notably I covered a family holiday to Afandou in Greece, where my Dad wrote a poem/song to sing to us Read more about Glory Days Loyal: February 2008 All Blog Posts[…]
“Footloose and fancy free, she comes to rescue me” – Kurt Nilsen. At the start of 2008, I had a broken leg and was housebound. I actually spent most of those days studying and watching Michael Palin DVDs of his global travels. I was preparing myself for bigger and better travels once my leg had Read more about Glory Days Loyal: January 2008 All Blog Posts[…]
“Where it began, woo oh oh oh” – Neil Diamond. Where it began, I know. It began in Toronto in Canada. An unlikely city to inspiring a nomadic Ulsterman’s whackpacking writing dream. It all began in Toronto in September 2001 when I spied the words “DON’T STOP LIVING” on a High School Wall. Nobody else Read more about Glory Days Loyal: 2007 All Blog Posts[…]
December 2007 was a bit of an odd time for me. Having been really busy in November 2007, December was where it all went wrong. I headed on a rare night out at Christmas to party in the Old Firestation Nightclub in Bournemouth, Dorset, England. It was on that night in this nightclub that I Read more about Glory Days Loyal: December 2007 All Blog Posts[…]
It was in November 2007, my fourth month as a travel blogger that something odd happened. I stopped blogging. That month only has TWO blog posts, yes crazy. The reason for this is very simple. I had just returned to Bournemouth after a long time travelling and I spent 2-3 weeks in a temporary flat Read more about Glory Days Loyal: November 2007 All Blog Posts[…]
In my ongoing Glory Days Loyal series, October 2007 was my third month as a travel blog and to be honest, I realised at the time that it was easy and no effort. Before I even had my travel blog, I was writing everything anyway. Now I had an online written document and I was Read more about Glory Days Loyal: October 2007 All Blog Posts[…]