Thirsty Thursdays: Exploring The Bars, Cafes and Restaurants of The Fairytale City of Marburg, Germany🇩🇪

Posted on July 26, 2019August 22, 2024 by Jonny Blair

“Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?” – The Grimm Brothers. Marburg is finally on my blog and it’s a Thirsty Thursday special!! Thirsty Thursdays were my forte!! A self coined wacaday phrase I concocted from the radio room of Belfast’s Belvoir Tech back in 1997. It was my teenage release, Read more about Thirsty Thursdays: Exploring The Bars, Cafes and Restaurants of The Fairytale City of Marburg, Germany🇩🇪[…]

World Travellers: Adam (AG) from Snorkel Around The World

Posted on July 25, 2019December 24, 2019 by Jonny Blair

The latest in my World Travellers series is Adam, a snorkelling geek who loves to snorkel around the world and runs a website related to the hobby, called Snorkel around the world. Who are you? I’m Adam, a former IT guy who loves the ocean therefore always looks for new destinations with awesome beaches and Read more about World Travellers: Adam (AG) from Snorkel Around The World[…]

Thirsty Thursdays: STEVEN DAVIS Pub Crawl in Lviv, Ukraine

Posted on July 4, 2019July 6, 2019 by Jonny Blair

“YAMD” – Northern Ireland football supporters, circa Denmark away 2006. When I first backpacked in Ukraine in 2015, I raved about how incredible the bars in Lviv were. It came as no surprise to me of course, as countries such as Poland, Belarus, Ukrainę and Russia generally have the best bars in the world, in Read more about Thirsty Thursdays: STEVEN DAVIS Pub Crawl in Lviv, Ukraine[…]

Sunday’s Inspiration: A Hat-Trick of Years Since My Hat-Trick City Arrival in Gdańsk

Posted on July 1, 2019January 8, 2024 by Jonny Blair

“Time flies” – Anon. On this exact Sunday evening, 156 weeks ago (3 years ago), I arrived by flight into Gdańsk in Poland. It was just another city on my journey, surely. Nothing special, nothing was about to change. Sunday 3rd July 2016. I had never been to Gdańsk before but it was my fourth time in Read more about Sunday’s Inspiration: A Hat-Trick of Years Since My Hat-Trick City Arrival in Gdańsk[…]

Tuesday’s Travel Essentials: Random and Quirky Items To Put In Your Backpack

Posted on June 25, 2019 by Jonny Blair

As I become more and more experienced as a traveller, I also learn what things to pack and what not to pack – what to leave behind. Down the years I made many mistakes when it comes to preparation, equipment, packing etc. It’s all a learning process, a trial and error. You learn from your Read more about Tuesday’s Travel Essentials: Random and Quirky Items To Put In Your Backpack[…]

Sunday’s Inspiration: Postcards From Babruysk, Belarus, 12 Years Later

Posted on June 23, 2019June 24, 2019 by Jonny Blair

Sunday Story time and a flashback to 2007… Just under 12 years ago (August 2007) when I started this travel blog, one of the first articles I wrote was about the city of Babruisk / Bobruisk / Babruysk in Belarus. I was there on a crazy train journey from Minsk, all alone to watch a Read more about Sunday’s Inspiration: Postcards From Babruysk, Belarus, 12 Years Later[…]

World Borders: How to Get From Kigali, Rwanda to Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo

World Borders: How to Get From Kigali, Rwanda to Bukavu, Democratic Republic Of The Congo🇨🇩

Posted on May 9, 2019November 1, 2025 by Jonny Blair

“All those people gathered there in Zaire, in Zaire. To see the rumble in the jungle there in Zaire, in Zaire” – John,ny Wakelin. On the ongoing journey, it was time to jungle it. We were heading from Rwanda to the Democratic Republic of Congo, with gorilla trekking and a jungle visit quite clearly on Read more about World Borders: How to Get From Kigali, Rwanda to Bukavu, Democratic Republic Of The Congo🇨🇩[…]

Sunday’s Inspiration: I Bought A Bed, It’s A Brand New Start

Posted on May 6, 2019October 24, 2021 by Jonny Blair

“I’m going to clear out my head. I’m going to get myself straight. I know it’s never to late to make a brand new start” – Paul Weller. A few days ago, I re-published the Don’t Stop Living Facebook Page. For good. It has been a huge week of change in my life. Sure, depression Read more about Sunday’s Inspiration: I Bought A Bed, It’s A Brand New Start[…]

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Group Touring Los Angeles’s Famous Watering Holes

Posted on May 2, 2019May 2, 2019 by Jonny Blair

Looking back to my early backpacking days and indeed the birth of this site, one of the first places I ever wrote about was Los Angeles! Yes, I was there back in 2007 when David Beckham signed for LA Galaxy and I toured Venice Beach, Hollywood Hills and of course the famous Hermosa Beach, where Read more about Group Touring Los Angeles’s Famous Watering Holes[…]

Tuesday’s Travel Essentials: My New Wallet from Allett Wallets

Posted on April 30, 2019April 30, 2019 by Jonny Blair

After losing my wallet in horrendous fashion in 2012 while tubing in Laos, I had to really look after my possessions a lot. Yet down the years, I have managed to lose phones, wallets, cameras and hats – sadly my famous blue hat was also lost in Laos in 2012. Since the Laos disaster, I Read more about Tuesday’s Travel Essentials: My New Wallet from Allett Wallets[…]