4 Sept 2024
This year I went to 24 fringe shows. This was due to a combination of fringe visitors and an intense fear of missing out. I don't have a sophisticated ranking system, which is odd ...
1 Aug 2024
I've generously titled this 'New York Part II' as if Part I wasn't 9 years ago. But fortunately on my first trip, I did all the Statue of Liberty-esque things, so this post will be...
14 Mar 2024
It's a very special time of year - the anniversary of when I went to Berlin last year. I didn't put up a blog post about it then because my blog was broken. But now my blog is fixe...
5 Nov 2023
I'd never travelled solo. I've experienced some stressful travel-related adventures - nauseating malaria tablets, sticking my hand through a rotten log and getting my arm covered i...
30 Aug 2023
As I sat in a lecture theatre with 25 other audience members, watching an Irish lady dressed as the Virgin
Mary's vagina sing Celtic chants about feminism, I thought, ...
27 Aug 2023
I've already explained about the run by my pals Sam and Kris in Ghost Adventures Part I, but if clicking on those links is too much effort, it's a ghost hunting club that go to spo...
7 Mar 2022
The trouble with inviting me to an overnight ghost hunt in the Edinburgh vaults is that not only do I not believe in ghosts, I'm also a bit of a dick about it. I'm that person who ...
18 Jun 2020
The burning question eating away at us all in these trying times - 'What if we run out of parsley?'. Well fear no more, because I've accidentally grown enough parsley to make garli...
4 May 2020
My friend Sam told me about Corona Bingo. Fortunately it isn't a neighbourhood window bingo event because I'd definitely feel like I had to participate in that and it would be cold...
19 Apr 2020
Flippantly taking our lives in our hands (according to everyone I told I was going to South Africa), we rented a car and drove from Johannesburg airport to Kruger Park. The other d...
8 Apr 2020
The positive of going to Athens early March when Coronavirus was just starting to kick off is there were only four other tourists trying to see the acropolis. Negatives of going to...
9 Mar 2020
There are lots of reasons people go on holiday. Mine is because we found a business class flight to South Africa for cheaper than economy. I've never flown business class, but most airlines make you walk through business class on your way to your middle-aisle-middle-seat right over the wing. So I know what I've been missing....