Well, it finally arrived after waiting months but the run up to the trip wasn’t as peaceful or exciting as previous trips.  The main reasons being one, it was a group tour in the main so needed less planning and two, I’d agreed to go back to work for the same client on my

I have just finished the packing for my 6 week tour of South America and to get myself into blog mode, I thought it’s time I jotted down a few pre-trip notes. Firstly, where am I heading? I have ditched my preferred way of travelling this time, i.e. travelling alone and having c

One of my mates who I met through The Arsenal had taken the plunge and moved from Dublin to Karlsruhe Germany to part own and run a pub.  I had been flapping on about going to visit for some time and being a self employed contractor, I can never work bank holidays… so the time w

My folks were due to come to Birmingham on a weekend and I was casually browsing the airlines as I do when I am bored.   I saw that Dublin return flights were cheap as chips from Birmingham weekend so we booked up. It was my 3rd time to Dublin and each time the accommodation gets more

Travelling away from work is boring, you get fat because all you can do is go out to restaurants and stuff your face in your hotel/bed and breakfasts.  The one thing I always like to do is to get to the cinema is I am lucky enough to be near one. I decided to buy Odeon Limitless since

Originally in the ballot I spent over 2k on tickets but was unfortunate in that I didn’t get any Wales tickets.  I had a load of group games, some in Wales’ group but for every game in the group other than a Wales one! Still, this was not the reason I sacked all of them of

On my last post I had concluded my 8 weeks with the ‘Shapeshifters’ programme and I was now embarking on a 3 month programme with a new personal trainer much closer to me.  I had signed up for 3 sessions a week and I jumped straight in after the Shapeshifters programme had

This is the first time in 5 or 6 years I was due to be in the country for my birthday, so my folks were taking the opportunity to come up for the bank holiday weekend.  I couldn’t face just going shopping in the Bullring etc so I booked up for us all to go to Bratislava, Slovaki

Last time I posted, I had just received my plan and all my measurements ready to embark on the initial 8 week plan.  Here I am in the closing days before my end of plan review and I thought I would update on how it has gone and what is next! I got into the plan very quickly, even thou

I remember always been called skinny this skinny that right throughout school, and University until the dreaded cruciate ligament struck.  From 2008 onwards it’s been pretty grim and got even worse when cruciate ligament 2 struck and there ceased to be any football in my life.