James Dean Bradfield opens his record collection to share tracks from his life.

"Everything I touched was golden" - Robbie Williams. It's a truly weird thing going back to the SAME place many many years later. What is more bizarre about THIS BLOG POST is that it happened by accident and was on EXACTLY the same DATE but 25 years to the EXACT DAY later. Yet everything was different, oxymoronic, juxtaposed, paradoxic...in Magaluf,…

"Everything I touched was golden" - Robbie Williams. It's a truly weird thing going back to the SAME place many many years later. What is more bizarre about THIS BLOG POST is that it happened by accident and was on EXACTLY the same DATE but 25 years to the EXACT DAY later. Yet everything was different, oxymoronic, juxtaposed, paradoxic...in Magaluf,…

"I followed the stars and I sailed to the sun, I held it in my fingers. Alone on the beach on my own out of reach, when you just passed me by" - Noel Gallagher. Travel Blogs > Printed Travel Media The latest in my cannon…

While I'm certainly not a food freak, a foodie, a food blogger or a fat bastard, I still run my Friday's Featured Food series. This series started way back in 2012 when the blog became more specific and tailored. And so, in an attempt to backdate and foodpack my way through 5,000 plus meals from 230 countries on my journey,…

"I followed the stars and I sailed to the sun, I held it in my fingers. Alone on the beach on my own out of reach, when you just passed me by" - Noel Gallagher. Travel Blogs > Printed Travel Media The latest in my cannon…

If you have followed my crazy off the wall adventures in the last 9 years of this blog, you might have seen or read about some naked times, some crazy festivals and some lunatic visits to disputed countries. That all calmed down here…

"I, I sometimes lose myself in me, I lose track of timeAnd I can't see the woods for the trees, you set them alight.Burn the bridges as you've gone, I'm too weak to fight yaI've got my personal hell to deal with" - D:Ream (Londonderry, 1993) Paddy Campbell and I sang along to it instead of doing an English project…

I'm on a serious mission to catch up on my latest travel stuff, so North Korea needs more posts on here. I didn't just backpack the hell out of its charming capital city, Pyongyang, we also checked out the DMZ, the city…

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"You make me feel naked, undressing me with your eyes" - Louise Nurding. I omitted the words "Thirsty Thursdays" from the title only because the title would have been too long and cumbersome, but this was a wild one and it is a Thirsty Thursday post. The Perch Bar is legendary! It is a bar housed out of an old…

I almost didn't want to write about this travel mishap, but I said recently it's a "no holds barred" on here so all the crazy "The Day I..." stories are going up!! It happened and I'm embarrassed by it, but looking…

Wow, wow, wow! That is all I can say about the wacky Republic of Karakalpakstan if you read my Wacaday report of my journey there, you'll know this was lunacy turned on its head. This autonomous region within Uzbekistan…

"Everything I touched was golden" - Robbie Williams. It's a truly weird thing going back to the SAME place many many years later. What is more bizarre about THIS BLOG POST is that it happened by accident and was on EXACTLY the same DATE but 25 years to the EXACT DAY later. Yet everything was different, oxymoronic, juxtaposed, paradoxic...in Magaluf,…

"You make me feel naked, undressing me with your eyes" - Louise Nurding. I omitted the words "Thirsty Thursdays" from the title only because the title would have been too long and cumbersome, but this was a wild one and it is a Thirsty Thursday post. The Perch Bar is legendary! It is a bar housed out of an old…

YouTube video by Jonny Blair

I'm on a serious mission to catch up on my latest travel stuff, so North Korea needs more posts on here. I didn't just backpack the hell out of its charming capital city, Pyongyang, we also checked out the DMZ, the city…

"There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges" - Ernest Hemingway. Curaçao was an unexpected oddball bonus for me. I wasn't really supposed to be here!…

"My Mojito in La Bodeguita. My Daiquiri in El Floridita" - Ernest Hemingway. I can't repeat myself too much in these posts but the eginnings are similar because, I'm on the Hemingway trail and I now realise it's easily enough on…

"My Mojito in La Bodeguita. My Daiquiri in El Floridita" - Ernest Hemingway. I can't repeat myself too much in these posts but the eginnings are similar because, I'm on the Hemingway trail and I now realise it's easily enough on…

Cancelled flights, Marley songs, Bolt runs and Robbie Earle goals...it was finally time for me to visit the home of The Reggae Boys. 💚🇯🇲I would be arriving by jet plane into the realms of Kingston Town... "And my queen will come at dawn. She'll…

"When the storm arrives would you be seen with me by the merciless eyes of deceit?" - Chris Cornell. While backpacking around the world I'd often end up in places where famous films/movies have been filmed. Sometimes that was by accident.…

"When the storm arrives would you be seen with me by the merciless eyes of deceit?" - Chris Cornell. While backpacking around the world I'd often end up in places where famous films/movies have been filmed. Sometimes that was by accident.…

While I'm certainly not a food freak, a foodie, a food blogger or a fat bastard, I still run my Friday's Featured Food series. This series started way back in 2012 when the blog became more specific and tailored. And so, in an attempt to backdate and foodpack my way through 5,000 plus meals from 230 countries on my journey,…

"The liberty ship disappeared a long long time ago, searching the seas for love" - Noel Gallagher. Since I was a kid, I have always loved ferry travel. I used to build Lego ferries and I often took ferries on summer holidays. Caught in the here and now, whackpacking a world that's been and gone, things got delayed. Rathlin Island…

I got to do the Channel Islands on the cheap a few years back. Hotel discounts, boat discounts and travelling there almost every day for 6 months while working as a Steward for Condor Ferries! I worked on a few different routes, mostly Poole (England)…

The Day I Did A COVID PCR Test At Windsor Park, The National Football Stadium In Dominica "Cold cold heart - hard done by you. Some things look better, baby, just passing through" - Elton John. Northern Ireland play…

"The liberty ship disappeared a long long time ago, searching the seas for love" - Noel Gallagher. Since I was a kid, I have always loved ferry travel. I used to build Lego ferries and I often took ferries on summer holidays. Caught in the here and now, whackpacking a world that's been and gone, things got delayed. Rathlin Island…

The BVI. Beefy. Tortola. The British Virgin Islands. This was actually a very last minute spontaneous adventure, as I just needed to escape Europe to backpack the Caribbean in December 2021. I'm sure more of that will come in the forthcoming book…

The Day I Did A COVID PCR Test At Windsor Park, The National Football Stadium In Dominica "Cold cold heart - hard done by you. Some things look better, baby, just passing through" - Elton John. Northern Ireland play…

The enchanting Kociewian town of Starogard Gdański was a trip that kind of sowed my seeds for staying in Poland. I realised how cool it was to tour unusual and untouristic towns and feel passionate

"You can tell the sun in its jealous sky that we walked through fields of gold" - Sting. "Off the wheaten craic" - Jonny Blair. Welcome to the real "off the wheaten craic" journey. A place with nature, no train station, no airport. This is Kokoszkowy!…

Plan your perfect day out in London: Take a Greenwich self-guided walk through historic sites including the Painted Hall and Prime Meridian.

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"The tunnel of love might amuse you, Noah's Ark might confuse you" - Richard Thompson. The idea of this trip overland/oversea/undersea was an amalgamation of factors. Firstly because recently I got so fed up with airlines. Every single trip I have done since 2021 has had at least one flight delay, cancellation or change. In all cases I lost money…

YouTube video by Jonny Blair

YouTube video by Jonny Blair

YouTube video by Jonny Blair

YouTube video by Jonny Blair

YouTube video by Jonny Blair