“Libraries gave us power” – Manic Street Preachers Saturdays were always my day off as a blogger. I tended to write my Saturday and Sunday stuff during the week and take Saturday off. It’s football day and I should be down Dean Court or the Oval. Even in a flash of inspiration, I’d jot my ideas Read more about Studying Saturdays: Learning Cantonese at the Chinese University of Hong Kong[…]
I’m delighted to release my latest e-Book, The Backpackers Guide to the Inca Trail! Back in 2010 I hiked the real Inca Trail in Peru and it was always my dream to release a book about it to help others interested in doing the popular hike. The book is a detailed 102 page guide to hiking the Inca Read more about My New e-Book: The Backpacker’s Guide to the Inca Trail by Jonny Blair[…]
“I followed the stars and I sailed to the sun, I held it in my fingers. Alone on the beach on my own out of reach, when you just passed me by” – Noel Gallagher. Travel Blogs > Printed Travel Media The latest in my cannon of Working Wednesdays this week stated (with huge justifications and proof) that Read more about Sunday’s Inspiration: Top 5 Tips on Becoming a Professional Travel Blogger[…]
“I read the news today oh boy” – The Beatles Working Wednesdays returned with a flourish last week and I’m getting my head round more wacky job related experiences and opinions these days. When I first studied Journalism back in 1997 in Belfast City, travel blogs may have existed, but they certainly were not widespread, Read more about Working Wednesdays: 10 Reasons Why Travel Blogs Are Better Than Printed Travel Media[…]
“There goes the fear again, there it goes. You turn around and life’s passed you by.” – The Doves While I play one of my favourite tunes over and over again on my iPod (The Fear by the Doves), a fear has struck deep within me. I don’t like being stationary. I don’t like staying Read more about Sunday’s Inspiration: The Fear of Settling Down[…]
It’s been a while since I did a Working Wednesdays feature on here, and while I have dozens more jobs to write about, I’ll be posting a few more of them in due course when I feel like it. After relocating to Hong Kong in 2011, I signed up with Internations. If you don’t already Read more about Working Wednesdays: Welcome Host for Internations in Hong Kong[…]
After relocating to Hong Kong in 2011, I signed up with Internations. If you don’t already know all about Internations, hopefully this article will explain. basically Internations is an international networking company all about connecting global minds and bringing people together. It’s mostly for ex-Pats living in a new location, looking for new friends and Read more about Sign Up for Internations: Connecting Global Minds[…]
You might have seen my social media updates about this release of my first ever travel blog, so here it is in a post to explain a bit more. As I head to my 100th country this month, I wanted to get my first ever travel blog released to get it out of the way. Read more about My New eBook: My First Ever Travel Blog, School Trip to the Netherlands, 1991[…]