I spent a brave few years living in Dorset, England. Its a great wee place, very honest, very raw, but unfortunately less English and more commercial in parts than I’d like. I’ve spent over four years of my life living in Bournemouth, which is commercial, touristy and has an influx of foreigners, especially in summer. However Read more about Backpacking in England: Touring Durdle Door, Dorset…[…]
It was early 2007 and I was busy planning more South of England Northern Ireland Supporters Club days out. The first one was Oxford to meet Jimmy Quinn and Darren Patterson, the next one was Weston Super Mare to let Sammy G host a meeting, and the third one fell into place rather easily! Probably Read more about 4-0 And You Still Don’t Sing! (De Ja Vu in Gillingham Kent 13th May 2007)[…]
Looking back at this little story about being a postman, I can laugh at it, but nothing ventured, nothing gained, nothing learned. I went to a job interview for being a postman back in 2001, got it and decided to leave the pub job. I always liked stamps, I used to collect them, I always Read more about Working Wednesdays: Return To Sender, The World’s Worst Postman in Holywood, Northern Ireland[…]
Most people will remember September 2001 for the 11th day of that month and the attacks on the USA. MOst of us had to get on with our ordinary lives and in my case sorting out a new adventure. I had been working as an ambient stock control assistant in Tesco in Northern Ireland (and Read more about Never Lands – The Time I Didn’t Go To Holland (September 2001)[…]
It may sound hard to believe, but aged 28 and finding myself in Birmingham I got more drunk than I had ever been before; in October 2008. In many ways it was a big occassion, and indeed one which I rose to and then succumbed to in equal measure being neither happier or sadder by Read more about First footsteps in Birmingham…and uninspiring intoxication (October 2008)[…]
Winter in Switzerland will always sound appealing, and this one crept up so slowly and passed by so quick I barely noticed. It was in March 2007, and even recounting the experience 18 months on is hard to do, now I reside with a lovely wisdom-full Swiss lady called Corinne Luescher, the hazy memory Read more about Switzerland Snowtime🇨🇭: My Time Backpacking in Zurich[…]
I had been working in Lymington since June 2008 on Wightlink ferries which take only 30 minutes to get you from Lymington in Hampshire to Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight. My drive to work would range from 23 minutes to over an hour depending on traffic, time of day and roadworks, so I never Read more about The Lymington Pub Crawl – 1st October 2008[…]
It was one of those cities (and Slovakia one of those countries) that I had somehow missed on my 2007 World Tour, despite it being one of those I was so close to at certains points. I was fairly close to Mexico, when in Los Angeles. I was also close to Australia when in New Read more about Backpacking In Slovakia: To Bratislava…[…]
I first met Sammy G (Sam Gordon) back in 2006 at the SOE NISC meeting in Bristol. He came with his son, Chris and is an ex-Belfast man now living in Weston Super Mare. As it was the idea to rotate all the meetings, we decided to finally hold our Weston Super Mare meeting in Read more about SOENISC Meeting In Weston-Super-Mare, April 2007[…]
In the 1980s as a kid I always used to watch the morning television shows, it was the entertainment at the time wasn’t it? I don’t watch anywhere near as much TV nowadays, but I do remember Timmy Mallett, his ‘Wacaday’ show and the awful single (but funny) “Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny.” So having lived Read more about Thirsty Thursdays: Timmy Mallett Night in Jumpin Jaks, Bournemouth, England[…]