Annual reviews

2016 In Review: A Productive Summer, Turning 30 & Discovering Europe

2016 is in the bag. How was it? As has been tradition each year (2014 and 2015 here), I’ll be publishing my personal summary of the year gone by. Where did I succeed? Where did I fail? What was good? Bad? My own reflections are below for you to read if you wish, but more …

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Destinations, Poland, Stories

Big Trouble In Little Kraków

I didn’t feel like going home. I’d just had dinner with some friends in the main square and they’d all clocked out early; it was only 11pm. With a belly full of beer, I decided to hit the bars for a couple more, lone cowboy style. After a twenty minute walk I was in the …

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Travel Tips

What’s In My Backpack?

So you want some packing tips. Don’t really have many good ones, to be honest. But I can tell you what I like to carry. My backpack has all the usual stuff in it – underpants, toothbrush, pet giraffe – but I also carry a few things that might not be so obvious.​

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Musings

Tiny Ramblings From Around The World (Part II)

Missed the first one? Check out the original Tiny Ramblings here. In Bangkok there are massage salons with “balls massages” on the menu. Just down the road from one of the fanciest malls in the world. It’s up there on the window for everyone to see. Balls massage. And you got ladyboy hookers and businessmen …

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