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What is a Numbers Station
There is a famous quote from a spokesperson in what was at the time the Department of Trade and Industry…
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Spango Valley
Just south of Greenock, in Inverclyde, western Scotland, is a derelict business park called Spango Valley, and an associated closed…
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The Russian Woodpecker
On my visit to Chernobyl and Pripyat, one of the places I was taken to was a site known as…
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Visiting Pripyat
Whenever anyone thinks of visiting Chernobyl, what they think of often isn’t the power plant itself. Rather, it’s the pictures…
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Chernobyl City and the Exclusion Zone
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station was the scene of an explosion in April 1986. It was such a significant event…
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How to Visit Chernobyl
At the time of writing this blog post, Chernobyl has been off-limits to visitors for a number of years. It…
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Dyspraxia as an Adult
Dyspraxia, one of those conditions that is little-known and generally quite maligned. It’s a word I only discovered relatively recently,…
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Mental Health and Self-Care Outside
I issued an episode of my podcast “Travel tales from beyond the Brochure” where I spoke about “Get Outside Day”,…
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Observations on the UK Housing Market
My friend Laura and I decided to move to Glasgow. As a pair of financially solvent adults with steady jobs,…
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The F*cket (Anti-Bucket) List, or Places To Die Before I Go
Everyone has a ‘Bucket List’, a tick-off sheet which itemises all the things you’d like to do, all the places…
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I Was Born In Year Zero: The Killing Fields
I was born in Year Zero. To be absolutely precise, I was born a few months *after* the Khmer Rouge…
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Perth & Fremantle: 1st & 2nd Impressions
I went to Perth and Fremantle in my ‘year of travelling’, when I took a career break from work. They…
Perspectives
The other parts of the website are mainly geographic or practical. In this section I go into deep dives about place, history, and culture.
This is where you’ll find longer posts, covering depths and perspectives of aspects of travel. This includes topics like dark tourism, content creator ethics, thoughtful travel, mental health, and some simple musings about the world. There are also some posts here that defy categorisation, as they cover concepts that are incredibly wide or fundamental in scope.
You can read how I cope with the fear of failure, social anxiety, and losing control when I travel. I also talk candidly about how it feels to travel the way I do, with regards age and finances. You’ll also find here overviews on war, famine, pestilence, death, and dyspraxia.
