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Be Here Now🎸🏝️: The Time Of My Life At Casa De Snagg, Chester Cottage, Saint Vincent🇻🇨

Posted on January 20, 2022August 27, 2024 by Jonny Blair

Be Here NowðŸŽ¸ðŸ️: The Time Of My Life At Casa De Snagg, Chester Cottage, Saint VincentðŸ‡»ðŸ‡¨ “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 Read more about Be Here Now🎸🏝️: The Time Of My Life At Casa De Snagg, Chester Cottage, Saint Vincent🇻🇨[…]

Thirsty Thursdays: Top 10 Pub Crawls From My Travels So Far

Posted on May 29, 2016March 19, 2019 by Jonny Blair

As I just begin to plan a major pub crawl on a big reunion day with the lads in London during the World Cup, it’s a good moment to recollect the top 10 pub crawls from my travels, some I’ve told before on Don’t Stop Living, some I haven’t yet shared. These have been absolutely Read more about Thirsty Thursdays: Top 10 Pub Crawls From My Travels So Far[…]

Staying at the Park Inn By Radisson in Manchester City Centre, England

Posted on October 21, 2015October 23, 2015 by Jonny Blair

I was recently back in England, and made a welcome return to the city of Manchester. Manchester is a massive city drenched in history, it’s world famous. Here you have the music of Oasis and the Stone Roses and the football teams FC United of Manchester, Manchester City and Manchester United. I’ve been to Manchester Read more about Staying at the Park Inn By Radisson in Manchester City Centre, England[…]

Watching Football in Manchester, England Without a Season Ticket

Posted on March 21, 2014May 2, 2014 by Jonny Blair

Time for another wee football post on Don’t Stop Living, and it comes from a city drenched in the sport…Manchester, England. I wrote about my trip to Old Trafford in 2005 before – on that occasion I watched Northern Ireland play England. Manchester is the home of two of England’s “best” (debatable at the time Read more about Watching Football in Manchester, England Without a Season Ticket[…]

Happiness Begins at Home, Is Travel All It Cracked Up To Be?

Posted on March 18, 2014May 2, 2014 by Jonny Blair

It’s often said we can spend our whole life in one place, but how well do we actually know it? We often take for granted our own tourist spots because they are just that, they are seen as tourist hotspots. We become that familiar with the idea of them that we dream more of further Read more about Happiness Begins at Home, Is Travel All It Cracked Up To Be?[…]

Thirsty Thursdays: The Cluedo Pub Crawl, Manchester and Bury, England

Posted on January 16, 2014July 13, 2016 by Jonny Blair

While living in England I used to LOVE my pub crawls. I’ve touched on a few of them before, including the epic 2007 “Countries of the World” pub crawl in London. In 2005, me and three mates also did the Monopoly Pub Crawl (41 bars over 2 days – to be completed within 41 hours!), Read more about Thirsty Thursdays: The Cluedo Pub Crawl, Manchester and Bury, England[…]

United Arab Emirates Fake Travel Report Part 1: Dubai Airport

Posted on September 14, 2012February 20, 2015 by Jonny Blair

** STOPPRESS – since this article I have actually been to Dubai and the UAE. How boring is it to write a travel story about visiting an airport? The answer is very, but I like to document everything and this journey was an emotional one. Plus it was my first time landing in Dubai, United Read more about United Arab Emirates Fake Travel Report Part 1: Dubai Airport[…]

Manchester United 0-3 York City FC

Posted on August 5, 2009February 3, 2013 by Jonny Blair

This post warps us back to Wednesday 20th September 1995, and a football match, which is potentially the biggest footballing upset in my lifetime. Manchester United, who had finished as Premiership Champions in 2 of the previous 3 seasons, and had also won the FA Cup twice in those two years, were at home to Read more about Manchester United 0-3 York City FC[…]