Category: Regular Features

On weekdays I provide essential and informative travel tips, with a different subject each day!

Thirsty Thursdays: Beers🍺and Lunch in Europe’s “Longest Bar”, The Square Peg, Birmingham, England🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Posted on by Jonny Blair

I love quirky records on my travels. You may have read that I drank in the southernmost Irish Pub in the world in Ushuaia, the highest Irish Pub in the world in La Paz and the southernmost hotel in Australia. So on my recent trip back to Birmingham, my top mate Lock In Lee and Read more about Thirsty Thursdays: Beers🍺and Lunch in Europe’s “Longest Bar”, The Square Peg, Birmingham, England🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿[…]

World Borders: How to Get to Wrythe, Austenasia🟡🔴(Within Carshalton, England)

Posted on by Jonny Blair

The route to my 100th (FIFA recognised) country couldn’t have been more bizarre really. To spice things up, and in true fashion of the way this journey has gone, I decided to visit a few small countries/micronations on the way. My fascination for disputed regions, breakaway republics and self declared nations possibly comes from the fact Read more about World Borders: How to Get to Wrythe, Austenasia🟡🔴(Within Carshalton, England)[…]

World Travellers: Stephanie Mayo from The World As I See It

Posted on by Jonny Blair

It’s time for another in my World Travellers series as I interview Canadian solo traveller Stephanie Mayo, who runs two blogs as well as working full time and travelling as much as she can.  Who are you?  I’m Stephanie, a single lady from Canada who loves solo travel, wildlife, writing and hiking! I’m pretty busy Read more about World Travellers: Stephanie Mayo from The World As I See It[…]

Sunday’s Inspiration: Every Beginning Comes From Some Other Beginning’s End

Posted on by Jonny Blair

“My idea of love comes from a childhood glimpse of pornography” – Richey James Edwards I’ve been brewing up many of these Sunday’s Inspiration posts but these days I’m a bit more strict on myself so I haven’t cooked them. Like an established artist I delete some and I only pick the ones I feel Read more about Sunday’s Inspiration: Every Beginning Comes From Some Other Beginning’s End[…]

Friday’s Featured Food: Fish Stew and Stout in Pingvinen, Bergen, Norway

Posted on by Jonny Blair

In catching back up to my huge catalogue of meals I’ve eaten yet never written about on Friday’s Featured Food, I thought I’d do a recent one – my only meal eating out in Norway. There are a few reasons why I didn’t eat out in Norway. One was that everywhere I stayed included breakfast, Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Fish Stew and Stout in Pingvinen, Bergen, Norway[…]

Thirsty Thursdays: Touring the Tequila and Mezcal Museum in Mexico City, Mexico

Posted on by Jonny Blair

“It’s another tequila sunrise, stirring slowly across the sky.” – The Eagles While backpacking in Mexico sooner or later you will try tequila and mezcal. You might not know the difference, how it’s made or why there are thousands of different kinds. In my time in Mexico we did a Mezcal tasting, a tequila tasting Read more about Thirsty Thursdays: Touring the Tequila and Mezcal Museum in Mexico City, Mexico[…]

Backpacking in Norway: Top 10 Sights in Oslo

Posted on by Jonny Blair

The budget backpacker in me always saw Norway as a dear country where I decided not to overspend on sights in and around the capital city. This meant no boat cruises, nights on the rip, bus tours or even visits to the trendy museums sorry folks. But my friend Cacinda has written about the Viking Read more about Backpacking in Norway: Top 10 Sights in Oslo[…]

Backpacking in Sweden: Reunion with Daniel and Sightseeing in Angelholm

Posted on by Jonny Blair

Angelholm, not the home of angels or angles but a cool Swedish town that life somehow took me to. You’ll pronounce it “Eng il haulm” (kind of). For the reason I went there, you’d have to go back to my days partying as a backpacker in Chilli Blue hostel in Sydney, Australia in 2009. After Read more about Backpacking in Sweden: Reunion with Daniel and Sightseeing in Angelholm[…]

Backpacking in Norway: Top 5 Sights in Voss

Posted on by Jonny Blair

When backpacking in Norway, time of year actually does affect your travels somewhat. The reason for this is that Winter is low season and I simply loved the weather. So first of all I suggest touring Norway in the Winter time. I was there in February, but January is also low season. The extreme snow Read more about Backpacking in Norway: Top 5 Sights in Voss[…]

Thirsty Thursdays: The Six Coolest Bars I Visited in Finland

Posted on by Jonny Blair

OK so I’m no expert and I wasn’t in Finland for long but I did do a bit of drinking there in Jarvenpaa, Helsinki and on the island of Suomenlinna. And Thirsty Thursdays is begging for the untold stories to come out so these are the six coolest bars from my visit in January 2015 where I Read more about Thirsty Thursdays: The Six Coolest Bars I Visited in Finland[…]