Podcast Special Episode #007½: “It’s Grim Up North”

Welcome to Episode 7½ of my “Travel Tales From Beyond The Brochure” podcast. This is a…

“Liebster Award” Chain-Slam Thingy

Right. For those of you who haven’t come across it (I hadn’t!), the “Liebster Award” is…

Day 23 – Are we there yet?

Friday 19 September 2014 Oh my absolute … today is best represented in a timeline. Be…

Groups in Hostels

Hostels can be really great for meeting people, especially when you’re travelling alone. Mostly you’d come…

Introspective: Why people don’t travel with me

As I type this, I’ve just spent two days in Minsk, travelling with my friend Ali.…

Barefoot in Chisinau

I mentioned in my everyday blog that I’d ended up having to walk the streets of…

But what happens then … ?

Something I’ve not given much thought to: I’m going for a year travelling, but what happens…

Nottingham, Feb 2014

Pictures taken on a photography workshop (“Shoot the Street”) I went to in February 2014 in…