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What is Life During COVID? Life During COVID is a body of work that I produced during the COVID lockdown....
What is Football Matchday Blogs? Football Matchday Blogs is a series charting my matchday experiences watching Blackpool home and away....
What is Travel Diaries? Travel Diaries is a collection of my adventures on my travels. This is a place-based series...
What is the Football Tourist Guide? The Football Tourist Guide is a place‑based travel project that treats football towns as...
What is Pubs & Pub Culture about? Pubs & Pub Culture is a place‑based travel project, exploring the pubs of...
We’re almost at the halfway point of The Great Balkans Road Trip. We’ve been to Romania and Bulgaria. Today it’s...
This is Day 5 of my Great Balkans Road Trip. If you want to start at the beginning you can...
This is Part 4 of The Great Balkans Road Trip. If you’re new to the series you can start from...
This is Day 3 of 13 of my Balkans road trip with Just You, doing a circular tour from Romania,...
If you missed how I got here, you can read about Day 1 here. This is the second of 13...
Dear reader, I’m off on a 13-day, five country tour of the Balkans, taking in Romania, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Kosovo...
We've done all the touristy stuff in Part One, so let's check out the pubs! But first we've got to...
As part of my mental health campaign to get out more, I arranged to meet Karen, Martin and Christine for...
Tonight we had tickets to a punk show at the theatre. Karen suggested Lytham for pre-theatre bevs, given we had...
I've been struggling with my mental health of late. I'm going back to basics and trying to occupy my mind...
I appear to have been in Hibernation Mode for the best part of a month but it's now time to...
I love a beer festival. Many of my faves are now sadly defunct (Walsall and Birmingham spring to mind) -...
This trip was pencilled in months ago, when the cup draw was made. I knew Harrogate to be a good...
When my pals from Friends of Highgate Brewery got in touch, inviting me to join them for drinks round Preston...
I fell in love with Grimsby and Cleethorpes back in 2018 when I visited for Chasetown's match at Clee Town...
First game of the season! My options were thus: a 1730 kick off at Crawley for the Blackpool match; or...
I’m often asked for pub recommendations by visitors to Blackpool (and Fleetwood) so I thought it was high time I...
It has now been established (I think) that Martin is ticking the pubs in Matt’s book (Manchester’s Best Beer Pubs...
I was inspired to visit Stirchley on my recent visit to Newcastle. As I was down in the West Midlands...
Well I wasn’t going to miss out on watching Chase in a cup final, was I? Despite another fucking train...
Ah Burton. The home of beer. It had been a while since I'd visited - everywhere seems so far away...
This wasn't the Newcastle I've had on my list to visit for yonks with Sarah, but the one in Stoke,...
Midweek Manchester Missions are a new thing I’ve started doing with fellow bloggers Martin and Christine. I had thought Martin...
Saturday matchday! I still get that buzz on a Saturday morning when I’m off to watch Chase - something I...
Ah Easter weekend. Where else would I be going but a beer festival? And not just ANY beer festival but...
Why Rochdale? Well, on my virtual travels during lockdown (remember when we weren’t allowed to go to pubs or football?),...
Wigan is my favourite town in the world and I need little excuse to visit. Wigan Beer Festival is now...
I was very excited to be heading to East Lancashire today to meet up with the Clitheroe massive. I appear...
You may have noticed, dear reader, that, when Blackpool play away from home, I’ve started going to watch my old...
A beer festival? In Wigan? With rave reviews and recommendations? Well I wasn't going to miss that! The late kick...
After a VERY messy day out in Preston the previous day, I was still pissed surprisingly chipper this morning and...
Preston?! What the fuck am I doing going to PRESTON?! Well, if I’m honest, I’ve wanted to go for a...
On football-free Saturdays, I tend to find myself finding some football to go to; it's simply what I do on...
It's been four years since I left Birmingham and a few friendships haven't survived the move - which I'm fine...
If you missed Part One (Gosport Pubs) and Part Two (Southsea), you can find them here and here. Dear reader,...
If you missed Part One: Gosport Pubs, you can find it here. After a pretty full on day yesterday, I...
In the immediate lead up to this trip, I was asking myself what the fuck I was thinking when I...
As I’d had such a fab time on my train awayday watching Chase at Kidsgrove recently, I took the opportunity...
I’d been holding off my trip to Cleveleys for months, pending the opening of an exciting new pub. I’d heard...
I'm loving having the freedom to travel to places I actually want to go to these days. Looking for a...
Tonight was the launch of Matt Curtis’s new book, Manchester’s Best Beer Pubs & Bars, which sounded like a fine...
I was giving the Blackpool game (away at Wycombe) a miss today. I have been struggling with Blackpool for many...
Dear reader, I’ve found a new beer friend, Kerry. Today was to be our first day out together and we...
I woke up in Cleethorpes slightly the worse for wear (see this blog for why). Also, my shoulder was killing...