“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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Long overdue then this one! Seventeen years ago this week I was backpacking in the North Island of New Zealand. Across a brace of trips to New Zealand, I have backpacked the North Island and the South Island but not yet Stewart Island. I ended up in Rotorua where I have backpacked through twice. I…
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“Much Ado About Nothing” – William Shakespeare. When I finally rolled by train into Stratford Upon Avon, I was in for a treat. I was actually in Shakespeare’s Town finally. It was February 2022 and I attempted to put the past behind me. The first thing you should know is that Shakespeare’s Town, Stratford Upon…
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Be Here Now🎸ðŸ️: The Time Of My Life At Casa De Snagg, Chester Cottage, Saint Vincent🇻🇨 “You gotta be bad enough to beat the brave”- Noel Gallagher. A 23 year delay was eventually put right on the 23rd December 2021. I was finally doing that Noel Gallagher pilgrimage that I craved back when “Be Here…
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“Museums are dead, take a new art stance; Paint mass suicide on the aspiration diktat” – Manic Street Preachers. What I have noticed as a difference between living somewhere and travelling somewhere, is that sometimes, you see more as a traveller. One reason for this could be that you only have 3-4 days in a…
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Aside from Don’t Stop Living, I roll a few other bandwagons and I often get freelancers and other companies in to work with me, I outsource some of my work. I have a lot of sites to manage at the moment and I needed some blog logos and web design done on them. So I…
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“In Camden Town, I’ll meet you down by the Underground” – Suggs I want to get back to writing more stuff like this. We all know the “Top 5 this” and “Top 8 that” posts are good for combining the key sights together into one article, bringing in page visits and also for SEO purposes.…
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On my journeys round the globe, you’ll have gathered that I love doing all sorts of different things on my travels and don’t have boundaries and limits. Whether it’s backpacking nonchalantly through Iraq, attending a victory parade in North Korea or eating as much food as you can in Gracia, Barcelona. I heard word that Paddy…
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Art is not something I particularly dig to be honest. I hardly ever visit art galleries and do find quite a lot of paintings over-rated, and some forms of art totally irrelevant and actually stupid, rather than clever. Which is why Sheffield came as a particular surprise. Growing up in Northern Ireland you really…
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