“Nobody knows the way it’s gonna be” – Noel Gallagher. Getting Oasis ticketsin 1997 for the Be Here Now tour was nuts and the proper way to see your favourite rock’n’roll band. Nothing was done online, nobody had the internet, nobody had any type of mobile phone at all, never mind a “smartphone”. Oasis massive…
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Long overdue then this one! Seventeen years ago this week I was backpacking in the North Island of New Zealand. Across a brace of trips to New Zealand, I have backpacked the North Island and the South Island but not yet Stewart Island. I ended up in Rotorua where I have backpacked through twice. I…
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“Where it began, woo oh oh oh” – Neil Diamond. Where it began, I know. It began in Toronto in Canada. An unlikely city to inspiring a nomadic Ulsterman’s whackpacking writing dream. It all began in Toronto in September 2001 when I spied the words “DON’T STOP LIVING” on a High School Wall. Nobody else…
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December 2007 was a bit of an odd time for me. Having been really busy in November 2007, December was where it all went wrong. I headed on a rare night out at Christmas to party in the Old Firestation Nightclub in Bournemouth, Dorset, England. It was on that night in this nightclub that I…
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It was in November 2007, my fourth month as a travel blogger that something odd happened. I stopped blogging. That month only has TWO blog posts, yes crazy. The reason for this is very simple. I had just returned to Bournemouth after a long time travelling and I spent 2-3 weeks in a temporary flat…
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In my ongoing Glory Days Loyal series, October 2007 was my third month as a travel blog and to be honest, I realised at the time that it was easy and no effort. Before I even had my travel blog, I was writing everything anyway. Now I had an online written document and I was…
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“Pass my bag but I picked up my bra, yes I knew that you wanted me” – Louise Wener. Continuing my “Glory Days Loyal” series, September 2007 was the first full month that the blog was online. I was still travelling and tried to write and upload one post per day, but this was definitely…
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“Start in the way that you wish to go on” – Neil Finn. This is the first in a series of posts that basically will do what I had plugins doing years ago – it is a chronological list of all my blog posts ever. And I start at the start and I end at…
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“Every breath you take, every move you make, every bond you break, every step you take, I’ll be watching you.” – Sting On the 27th August 2007, I did something completely unremarkable that changed my life, over time. I can’t believe it was 8 years ago or that it changed my life, but hey it was…
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Oh Riga, you really don’t inspire any love affairs do you? Back in 2007 I first visited Riga, the Latvian capital city during the same year that I started this blog. I didn’t write much about it before, nor did I feel inspired to. A few mis-haps on my first visit had this place way…
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