UK

  • My favourite craft brewery-run bars in Manchester

    Manchester may have a number of breweries with actual brewtaps, but not every decent brewery-led bar is a brewtap, or…

  • My Six Best Brewtaps in Manchester City Centre

    Manchester has a heck of a lot of places to drink, for sure, including a lot of hipster craft bars.…

  • My Six Favourite Pubs In Stalybridge

    Stalybridge isn’t a town on many people’s radar; it’s noted for being somewhere you pass through on the way to…

  • All The Pubs In Central Salford

    It’s possibly unlikely you’ll be doing a pub crawl of central Salford, because, I mean, Manchester City Centre is Just…

  • Linn Park

    Linn Park lies just south of Cathcart railway station, on the edge of Glasgow Southside. It’s about 80 hectares, and…

  • Football History in Glasgow Southside

    The Southside of Glasgow is fundamentally important for the history of the game of football (soccer). The Scottish Football Association…

  • Pollok Country Park

    Pollok Country Park, on the edge of Glasgow, is one of the most famous city parks in the UK. It’s…

  • Cute Cafes in Glasgow

    Now, a blog post about ‘Cute Cafes in Glasgow’ (or anywhere else to be honest) isn’t the sort of post…

  • Spango Valley

    Just south of Greenock, in Inverclyde, western Scotland, is a derelict business park called Spango Valley, and an associated closed…

  • A guide to Queen’s Parkrun, Glasgow

    Queen’s Parkrun is the edition of Parkrun that takes place in Queen’s Park, in Glasgow’s Southside. It’s one of several…

  • Spaces #008: Hiking Across Great Britain

    Welcome to the recording of the eighth edition of my semi-regular Twitter Space sessions. This episode was all about hiking,…

  • The Sefton Coast

    The Sefton Coast is the part of England just north of Liverpool, and stretching some 15 miles to Southport. It’s…