Friday 30th January 2016 365 days had passed since I had realised the leap year meant New Years Eve fell on a Saturday which meant I had a golden opportunity to go to Edinburgh for Hogmanay without requiring a days…
Friday 30th January 2016 365 days had passed since I had realised the leap year meant New Years Eve fell on a Saturday which meant I had a golden opportunity to go to Edinburgh for Hogmanay without requiring a days…
Friday 9th September Cont… I mostly napped on the long drive with a bit of writing for this blog thrown in just so I could try to convince myself I hadn’t totally wasted the long drive. The journey was however…
Wednesday 7th Cont… After disembarking from the ferry we waited in the arrivals area whilist El went to order us two taxis. After a while it appeared everyone had left and although we weren’t told by security we had to…
Sunday 4th September continued We commenced the long walk along the gangway to the M/S Silja Serenade which appeared even bigger than the ferry from the day before. Once inside I gasped at its scale. Whilst I’d been on a…
Friday 2nd September I’d met Jayde after work on the Thursday and we’d booked a night at the Holiday Inn hotel at Stansted airport. Waking up at 4.20 was still a struggle but had prevented the need to wake up…
Friday 26th August My alarm went off at 1.45am which I think was even earlier my normal early starts. I made my way to the bus stop and as I’m now used to the bus didn’t show which meant the…
Thursday 9th June The TGV accelerated out of Paris and when I looked at the distance we’d travelled in the first hour I was staggered to realise we’d already covered roughly half the total journey length. After the first hour…
Monday 6th June 4 years ago during London 2012 my mate John and I had discussed seeing a football tournament abroad. We’d discussed Rio in 2014 and whilst he visited South America when the tournament was on I stayed at…
Friday 27th May After leaving work I made my way to St Pancras so I could catch the Eurostar. I had misread a message from Victoria which nearly caused complete chaos on my arrival. It was 23.30 by the time…
Saturday 14th May A couple of weeks ago, my friend Jayde said “Hey Johno, do you wanna go to Milan for the weekend?” I couldn’t say yes quick enough even though it meant I’d miss the last Watford match of…