On weekdays I provide essential and informative travel tips, with a different subject each day!
The latest in my World Travellers series takes us to New Zealand. A country I have personally backpacked in twice and had a good time there. I introduce Anna Meanders… Who are you? Hey, I’m Anna. I’m a Kiwi traveller who’s currently locked down in New Zealand waiting for my moment to get back out Read more about World Travellers: Anna Meanders From New Zealand[…]
“Maybe the strangeness only ever was to hide ourselves from some kind of happiness” – Manic Street Preachers. So the five year gap has finally happened. This week I hit another sentimental and perhaps unwanted milestone on my wacaday journey. 21st August 2020 saw a five year story come back to haunt and for another Read more about Sunday’s Inspiration: Maybe The Strangeness Only Ever Was To Hide Ourselves From Some Kind of Happiness[…]
I probably should have written posts like this for years as these are the ones that people care about and are interested to read. But I was always too selfish to care, I wrote about where I went, what I saw, what I wanted to write. The Five Most Unusual and Quirky Places I Have Read more about The Ten Most Unusual and Quirky Places I Have Ever Slept🛏️😴💤[…]
“Smiling as the shit comes down, you can tell a man from what he has to say” – Neil Finn. Everything’s amazing. Every single city in the world is awesome. Wow what a cool monument! Such an amazing church. Great Mosque there. Inspiring skyline. Delicious food. I call bull5hit. Not everything is that cool really Read more about My Top 10 Most Over Rated💩Cities From My First 186 Countries🌍🎒[…]
I remember back to the late 1980s when a pizza restaurant (Piccola Pizzeria) first opened in my hometown of Bangor in Northern Ireland. It was totally amazing for me to try a foreign food for the first time. Chinese restaurants followed and sadly so did DickMonald’s (in 1992) and suddenly it wasn’t only Irish, Scottish Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Irish Dining At Its Finest[…]
“Although loneliness has always been a friend of mine, I’m leaving my life in your hands” – Backstreet Boys. The 25th June 1982 was a day to remember for the Northern Ireland football team. By no mere coincidence, and five years later than billed, on the 25th June 2020, I finally release the first volume Read more about Backpacking Centurion Volume 1 – Don’t Look Back in Bangor – FINALLY Released 25th June 2020[…]
During the pandemic, I was able to finally release my first solo printed book series (Backpacking Centurion), along the wayside, I forgot I already had appeared in 5 books before that. A hat-trick of E’s and a brace of printed ones. For today’s Working Wednesday, I thought I would put them all on one Read more about Working Wednesdays: My First 5 Book Appearances[…]
The latest in my World Travellers series is Diana from The Globetrotting Detective. Before I totally knew about Diana, I didn’t realise we both have a common link – all the way to the gorgeous Hungarian city, Debrecen. While my time in Debrecen came to an end two decades ago, my mind pondered as I Read more about World Travellers: Diana From The Globetrotting Detective[…]
Popular female world traveller Ashleybaby released her first book, The 550,000 Miles way back in 2017. However, a lot has happened since those days and now Ashleybaby, aka The Krazy Koala is back with a fantastic new book – the update – the next part of her incredible journey. The new book is aptly titled… Read more about Latest Travel Book From Ashleybaby, The Krazy Koala! One Million Miles: Journey of a solo female traveler 138 countries and counting…[…]
It feels almost unimaginable that we can now work online from the comfort of our homes as an English teacher. I remember back to my days at Tech in the 1990s when a guy at Tech got a pager for the first time. A pager you say? You even forgot they existed right? That was Read more about Working Wednesdays: Teaching English Online From Home[…]