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#ThisGuyCan – A Challenge to Toxic Masculinity

2019/01/20 2019/01/20 1

This post, about toxic masculinity, is the first of a new section of my website where I concentrate more on political thought around travel than on the travel itself. See, I’ve always been quite a political person (Full Disclaimer: I am currently a member of the Green Party of England …

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Travel Tales

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

2019/01/11 2019/01/11 0

Welcome to Episode 7½ of my “Travel Tales From Beyond The Brochure” podcast. This is a bit of a special edition of an episode, possibly the first of many, as I seek to fill in gaps in my schedule plan caused by procrastination and administration. This time I’m pretending to …

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Podcast #007: Sexuality while Travelling

2018/12/26 2018/12/26 0

Welcome to Episode 7 of my “Travel Tales From Beyond The Brochure” podcast. This time I’m talking about “Sexuality while Travelling”; whether people feel they need to change how and where they choose to travel based on their own sexuality, and people’s different experiences of travel itself when they have …

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Podcast #006: The Great Outdoors

2018/12/10 2018/12/10 0

Welcome to Episode 6 of my “Travel Tales From Beyond The Brochure” podcast. This time I’m talking about “The Great Outdoors”, about how it feels to leave your house, get outside, and be lost in nature. It’s a concept that’s always felt important to me; the openness, the beauty of …

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UK

Hiking Across Great Britain

2018/12/06 2018/12/06 3

… So, I may have committed to doing something somewhat epic, and equally very very silly. But of course, as ever, Your Mileage May Vary; for some people hiking across Great Britain for 800 miles is a perfectly normal way to spend a summer … But let’s have a little …

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Oceania, Travel Tales

Podcast #005: Vanuatu

2018/11/16 2018/11/17 0

Welcome to Episode 5 of my “Travel Tales From Beyond The Brochure” podcast. As mentioned last time, I recently went backpacking for 11 weeks. For almost a month of this, I explored several of the islands that make up the South Pacific country of Vanuatu. While I was there, it …

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Podcast #004: Reverse Culture Shock

2018/10/11 2018/11/17 0

Welcome to Episode 4 of my “Travel Tales From Beyond The Brochure” podcast. As you know, I’ve just had an 11-week trip around Oceania & Sri Lanka, and arriving back in the UK has sent my mood a little low. Though I’ve now been back for a bit over three …

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Podcast #001: Travelling Barefoot

2018/06/23 2018/11/17 0

Welcome to Episode 1 of my “Travel Tales From Beyond The Brochure” podcast. I aim to produce a weekly pod on topics relating to travel; not just about places, but also the reasons behind travel – why we travel, what we like about travel, and what issues we have with …

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My Journey

Confessions of a Travel Blogger

2017/11/02 2018/01/17 3

I am not a travel blogger. Now, that might sound like a strange thing to say, given that you’re reading a blog on the website of someone who travels around the world, and whose blog entries mostly concern either locations or aspects of travel. However, I’ve been musing over the …

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Travel Gear

Return of the Barefoot Daisy

2016/08/24 2019/01/03 0

This post will appeal to different people in different ways … 😉 Earlier this month, I was invited to a wedding in Southampton. I’d known the bride for maybe 12 years, and she’s quite a casual, relaxed soul (it’s the Dutch mentality) – after the ceremony in the church, she …

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