Podcast #003: Bucket List Travel

Welcome to Episode 3 of my “Travel Tales From Beyond The Brochure” podcast. This time the…

Podcast #002: Hometown Travel

Welcome to Episode 2 of my “Travel Tales From Beyond The Brochure” podcast. This week, the…

Podcast #001: Travelling Barefoot

Welcome to Episode 1 of my “Travel Tales From Beyond The Brochure” podcast. I aim to…

Beer in the USA

People on Twitter have always asked me ‘Why am I not a beer blogger?’, given that…

Day Trip To Plovdiv

I spent two nights in Sofia, but while I was there I took a day trip…

24 Hours in Sofia

“Our flight time will be about 2½ hours, thanks to a strong tailwind. The current weather…

The Ballad of August 1993 (and other stories)

So, let me take you back to the heady days of the mid 1990s. What were…

Two days in Eastern Bosnia

As international borders go, the one between Serbia and Bosnia that I passed through around 2.30am…

Novi Sad in a few hours

Novi Sad is Serbia’s second biggest city, around 80km from Belgrade and the train takes about…

Belgrade – The White City

See, I’ve been to Belgrade now three times (I have a penpal there), and each time…

Laibach and think of Slovenia

Ahh, Laibach. But I’m not here referring to the Industrial/Experimental music group/culture founded in the late…

The Valleys

“The miner in the Rhondda, the coolie in Pekin / Men across the world who reap…