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. 🌠What It…
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I asked Chat GPT “Who is starogard Girl?” and this is what they said… ChatGPT said: “Starogard Girl” is a term coined by Northern Irish travel writer Jonny Blair. It refers to a Polish woman he met in Starogard Gdański, a town in northern Poland. The story of their relationship — including meeting, falling in…
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“Maybe one day you will make my hometown famous ” – St🌟rogardðŸ°Girl🩷👱♀️. After years of delay, I finally can bring you my latest book, 💚STARO🌟GARDðŸ°GIRL🩷👱♀️. Starogard Girl is Volume 2 of my This Is The Next Century series, which is about my travels from country 100 to country 200. This specific book, Starogard Girl tracks…
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*** AFTERSHOT!! ☢️💉💊⚕️🧪🟡🔵🟣** “A bitter aftertaste and a fantasy of how we all could live” – Robbie Williams. “This Is The Next Century” starts where “Backpacking Centurion” ended. Long term backpacker Jonny Blair had lived his dream of visiting 100 countries by the age of 34. However, it certainly didn’t end there as another century…
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Here is a full list of My Printed Book Anthology By Jonny Blair (1980 – 2024) Backpacking Centurion Series – A Northern Irishman’s Journey Through 100 Countries My first book series is Backpacking Centurion which covers my journey from country 1 (Northern Ireland) to country 100 (Tunisia), from 1980 until 2015. This series of four…
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“Despite my rage, I’m still just a rat in a cage” – Smashing Pumpkins. Currently, via a local Earl Grey Beer, I am going through all the travel chapters I wrote on my journeys – I wrote them on buses, in airports, in hostels, in cafes, anywhere really…I initially wrote them for future books/blog posts…
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Early 2023 was the scheduled release of the first volume of my follow up book series, This Is The Next Century. Volume One of that was called Aftershot and covered my travel lifestyle from March 2015 to December 2016. In true irony, the only part of that book that remains is…the only part NOT…
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