“From feudal serf to spender, this wonderful world of purchase power” – Richey James Edwards. I love Sark. It’s just a magical dream like island. No public transport. No major advertising. No worries or stress. Sark is one of the few remaining inhabited places in the world where cars are banned from roads and only…
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On my backpacking travels, I’ve done a lot of “walking on walls”, “crossing borders” and “climbing fences”. So here’s a quirky backpacking list of my Top 10 fences, walls or borders – whatever you want to call them. As humans we have felt the need to build walls to “keep out the foreigners” (copyright Paul…
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Although it’s rare for me to write about backpacking or sightseeing in London, England the fact remains that I once spent a year working my ass off in London and it was only after leaving that job in 2007 (almost 7 years ago now) that I started this blog and became a more hardcore backpacker…
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This post comes with a personal touch – having not just travelled through Cornwall, one of my best mates is Cornish and proud of it. It’s a great part of the world. In case you don’t know it, Cornwall is at the very western end of England and has beaches a-plenty, genteel towns and lots…
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This is a break from the usual travel and lifestyle posts on here and I’m glad to be finally writing about watching football again, not just on my own site but I’ve done a load of football articles recently, including on UFWC. Football has played a big part in my travels, it’s a MASSIVE part…
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I’ve been to Spain three times in total, once with mates on a lads booze up, once on a spot of backpacking and the other time was with my family. While I’ve visited the Spanish mainland of course and travelled all over Spanish speaking South America, I thought I’d share with you my top 5…
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“You get out of life what you put in” – Katy Cook (Hull, England). Today’s Sunday’s Inspiration owes itself to one of my ex managers. Name checked: Katy Cook. From Hull in England. We worked together from 2006-2007 in London. I was a PR assistant for a global PR Agency called Bite Communications based at…
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Twenty three years after my first trip to the Netherlands I was back. By this time, January 2014 serving “Cannabis Coffee” was now illegal in Amsterdam, allegedly. That’s right – something illegal in Amsterdam. You thought this was the city where anything goes. Not quite, but in fact even cannabis is illegal in Amsterdam. But…
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This week has been a really, really busy one in my travel lifestyle. Last week I got a tweet out of the blue from a journalist from my birthtown of Newtownards. She writes for the Newtownards Chronicle, a weekly paper which oddly I once worked with the sister company/newspaper while doing my media course in…
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Exactly nine years ago this week, life took me to Leicester! It was a crazy journey from Warsaw to Loughborough and really early backpacking days for me. I was there attending a function as a University Student. Not just any function though – it was the National Student TV Awards and I collected 2 trophies…
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