World Borders: How To Get From France to Monaco (And Get Your Passport Stamped in Monte Carlo)

Posted on March 25, 2020 by Jonny Blair

“Give me something I can rely on, far away from the life that I once know – Monaco. Monaco is an enigma, that’s for sure! As a lover of wacaday republics, unrecognised states, countries that don’t exist, nations unofficial and unclaimed lands, Monaco was right up my street. And it was a handy little trip Read more about World Borders: How To Get From France to Monaco (And Get Your Passport Stamped in Monte Carlo)[…]

Backpacking in My Own Flat: Top 3 Sights In Isolation

Posted on March 25, 2020 by Jonny Blair

Stay at home. Stay in your flat or house. Why go out? Why? You are risking other people’s lives even if you think YOU are invinvicle and have no symptoms of the deadly COVID-19/Coronavirus. It is my 11th day at home but even I feel guilty that in those 11 days I left the flat Read more about Backpacking in My Own Flat: Top 3 Sights In Isolation[…]

Backpacking in Georgia: Top 10 Sights in Tbilisi

Posted on March 23, 2020October 3, 2020 by Jonny Blair

Let’s start with the surprising fact – Tbilisi is a great city. It is just incredibly under rated. A liveable city. A safe city. A vibrant city. A sleeping giant crying to be found. I expected nothing much from it, I expected an eastern grey textbook dull drab dreary ex-communist Stalinist patchwork of Soviet style Read more about Backpacking in Georgia: Top 10 Sights in Tbilisi[…]

Was There Then🎸🎙️Oasis⚫⚪20 Years On: My Sentimental Trip To Pairc Ui Chaoimh, Cork, Republic of Ireland🇮🇪

Posted on March 22, 2020August 26, 2024 by Jonny Blair

“Some might say, we will find a brighter day” – (Some Might Say)* all quotes on this post are from Oasis and this post is dedicated to Colin Walker and Keith Freel. August 1996. Rock’n’roll. I was only 16 years old. I was still officially a student at Bangor Grammar School, having just finished “fifth Read more about Was There Then🎸🎙️Oasis⚫⚪20 Years On: My Sentimental Trip To Pairc Ui Chaoimh, Cork, Republic of Ireland🇮🇪[…]

Coronavirus Crisis: A Week in Isolation, 10 Ways My Life Has Changed

Posted on March 21, 2020March 21, 2020 by Jonny Blair

“The lonesome hum from my desklamp is where I find my heaven” – Gigolo Aunts. “Nothing’s gonna change my world” – Lennon/McCartney. At lunchtime last Friday, spookily Friday 13th March 2020, I opened the door of my flat and came inside and into my bedroom. In a district of north Warszawa in Poland’s cool, calm Read more about Coronavirus Crisis: A Week in Isolation, 10 Ways My Life Has Changed[…]

Quad Biking in Saudia Arabia on The Sand Dunes Near Shaqra

Posted on March 19, 2020September 26, 2023 by Jonny Blair

“Little dune buggy in the sand, little blue dune buggy in my hand, little blue dune buggy” – The Presidents of the United States of America. I didn’t expect this to be enjoyable by any stretch. After all I grew up near a beach in Bangor in Northern Ireland and used to slide through the Read more about Quad Biking in Saudia Arabia on The Sand Dunes Near Shaqra[…]

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! My Top 6 Saint Patrick’s Days Down The Years

Posted on March 17, 2020March 17, 2020 by Jonny Blair

Ireland’s patron saint, Saint Patrick is a man of pure oxymoronic nature if today’s commercial excrement could for an ungreedy second be aware of who this guy really was. Money took over the world folks – just ask DickMonalds and Coca Cola. There is no need for Valentine’s Day Thorntons or Interflora or Christmas Santa Read more about Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! My Top 6 Saint Patrick’s Days Down The Years[…]

Sunday's Inspiration: My Slow Boats Through China, Sadness Reflecting Those Memories

Sunday’s Inspiration: Coronavirus, My Slow Boats Through China, Sadness Reflecting Those Memories

Posted on March 16, 2020March 16, 2020 by Jonny Blair

“Some might say you get what you’ve been given. If you don’t get yours, I won’t get mine as well. Some might say that we will find a BRIGHTER DAY” – Noel Gallagher. The year I started this blog, 2007 was also my first ever trip to China. I got my Chinese Visa in London Read more about Sunday’s Inspiration: Coronavirus, My Slow Boats Through China, Sadness Reflecting Those Memories[…]

Screw “The Big Five” African Animals: Here is My Real Top (Twenty) 5 Animals!

Posted on March 12, 2020August 6, 2020 by Jonny Blair

“The animal instinct in me” – Dolores O’Riordan (The Cranberries). Don’t you hate it when some buck eejit decides on a final list and they expect you to adhere to it. They are right. Everybody else is wrong. And they try to destroy everyone who disagrees with it. That is how I feel about the Read more about Screw “The Big Five” African Animals: Here is My Real Top (Twenty) 5 Animals![…]