Toronto, Canada🇨🇦25 Years Later: Finding The ‘High School Wall’ Where Don’t Stop Living🌎👨‍💻💻 ALL Began

Posted on July 23, 2026July 29, 2026 by Jonny Blair

“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 Read more about Toronto, Canada🇨🇦25 Years Later: Finding The ‘High School Wall’ Where Don’t Stop Living🌎👨‍💻💻 ALL Began[…]

Thirsty Thursdays: Visiting The World’s First Ever LIDL🟡🟦🔴 Pub – The Middle Ale, Dundonald, Northern Ireland

Posted on July 22, 2026July 22, 2026 by Jonny Blair

“Little by little I gave you everything you ever dreamed of” – Noel Gallagher. German supermarket giant LIDL have opened their first ever PUB!! And they have opened it in a place I used to live – Dundonald, Belfast, Northern Ireland (for the record I lived at 24 Fort Road way back in 1999…). Here Read more about Thirsty Thursdays: Visiting The World’s First Ever LIDL🟡🟦🔴 Pub – The Middle Ale, Dundonald, Northern Ireland[…]

Flying✈️Transatlantic🌊In 4 Hours 17 Minutes⏱️!!: My Trip From Saint John’s, Newfoundland🇨🇦To Dublin, Republic Of Ireland🇮🇪

Posted on July 21, 2026July 21, 2026 by Jonny Blair

“Birds go flying at the speed of sound to show you how it all began” – Chris Martin. Nope, I was NOT on the defunct Concorde nor one of Richard Branson’s sky rockets!! I flew from North America to Europe in 4 hours 17 minutes!!! This was the fastest I have EVER done that. I Read more about Flying✈️Transatlantic🌊In 4 Hours 17 Minutes⏱️!!: My Trip From Saint John’s, Newfoundland🇨🇦To Dublin, Republic Of Ireland🇮🇪[…]

A List Of Every Airline✈️🛫✈🛩️In The World; And Those I Have Travelled With

Posted on July 16, 2026July 16, 2026 by Jonny Blair

“As the day was dawning, my plane flew away with all the things caught in my mind” – Noel Gallagher. I have now been on over 1,000 flights – a milestone I passed in late 2025. Airline travel is the fastest and often the cheapest, easiest and handiest. It is also the scariest, the highest Read more about A List Of Every Airline✈️🛫✈🛩️In The World; And Those I Have Travelled With[…]

Backpacking In Bournemouth🍒Airport: Where The FIRST USA🇺🇸To UK🇬🇧Commercial Plane Landed After World War 2

Posted on March 2, 2026March 2, 2026 by Jonny Blair

“We’re from Bournemouth, sunny sunny Bournemouth” – CherriesðŸ’fans. I have backpacked Bournemouth (Dorset, England) almost as many times as I have backpacked Belfast and Bangor! I spent 6 glorious years living in this marvellous seaside town before deciding to emigrate in 2009. I haven’t lived in either England or Northern Ireland since taking that plunge Read more about Backpacking In Bournemouth🍒Airport: Where The FIRST USA🇺🇸To UK🇬🇧Commercial Plane Landed After World War 2[…]

This Is The Next Century: Aftershot☢️💉💊⚕️🧪🟡🔵🟣(Volume 1) Is Released

Posted on March 1, 2026 by Jonny Blair

This Is The Next Century: Aftershot (Volume 1) Is Released (January 2024) This Is The Next Century: Aftershot (often just called Aftershot) is a travel-adventure memoir that continues Jonny Blair’s life story on the road after he’d already visited 100 countries — a milestone he reached in his earlier Backpacking Centurion series. ðŸŒ What It Read more about This Is The Next Century: Aftershot☢️💉💊⚕️🧪🟡🔵🟣(Volume 1) Is Released[…]

Thirsty Thursdays AND Friday’s Featured Food: Naked Pea Powder From Naked Nutrition

Posted on February 27, 2026March 5, 2026 by Jonny Blair

For the first time ever, I decided to COMBINE two of my regular feature pages on here for one post only, and that is because this fantastic protein powder counts as both a food and a drink!!! So Thirsty Thursdays now joins Friday’s Featured Food for a one-off special, thanks to Naked Nutrition! After checking Read more about Thirsty Thursdays AND Friday’s Featured Food: Naked Pea Powder From Naked Nutrition[…]

How To Get A Somaliland🟩⬜️🟥Visa In Djibouti City, Djibouti🇩🇯

Posted on January 11, 2026January 11, 2026 by Jonny Blair

“It’s the eye of the tiger, it’s the thrill of the fight” – Survivor. After my first Christmas in Northern Ireland since 2019, I headed out of Belfast on Boxing Day/Saint Stephen’s Day south to Swords/Baile Atha Cliath. Known to the world as Dublin. I had a Dublin to Djibouti hat-trick of flights booked. A Read more about How To Get A Somaliland🟩⬜️🟥Visa In Djibouti City, Djibouti🇩🇯[…]

21 Years Later: Sentimental Return To The Heathlands Hotel Where Once I Worked In Bournemouth England

Posted on October 5, 2025October 5, 2025 by Jonny Blair

“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, Read more about 21 Years Later: Sentimental Return To The Heathlands Hotel Where Once I Worked In Bournemouth England[…]

West Coast Wilderness Railway Part Seven – Tasting Honey at “Lower Landing”

Posted on August 22, 2025August 22, 2025 by Jonny Blair

The name of the next station on my Tasmanian tour was “Lower Landing”, I didn’t really like that name actually. It’s a bit false. And the name was totally false. It’s a custom built station for the sake of the Western Wilderness Railway. That took the shine off the stop there, but didn’t take the Read more about West Coast Wilderness Railway Part Seven – Tasting Honey at “Lower Landing”[…]