
WALES AWAY BLOG: The Menin Gate, Ypres (10/06/25)
A poignant stop off on the way home from Brussels. The Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres. I don’t always bother with a blog about the journey […]
A poignant stop off on the way home from Brussels. The Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres. I don’t always bother with a blog about the journey […]
Tales of spaceships, the Red Wall and an action-packed football match. Sometimes you wake up and have to judge which you need most: more sleep […]
Brussels by bus – day one. The beauty of Wales Away is travelling to interesting new places. But this is the third time in ten […]
Final day of trip, meeting local musicians and some reflections on Macedonia. Today we finally get to do what we had hoped to do on […]
Burning the candle at both ends: a jam-packed day including lakes, picnics and football. And beers It’s a funny old game. If your team scores […]
An emotional day in Skopje, for several very different reasons I wake up to cancel the 9:30 walking tour. Partly because of the rain, partly […]
First Wales Away trip of a new campaign, the qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup. The first away trip of a campaign should be a […]
Latest issue (#16) of Alternative Wales, a zine dedicated to all things Welsh football. Alternative Wales is a professional-looking A5 zine that covers all aspects […]
An action-packed day featuring hot air balloons, ancient cities beneath the ground and magic carpets. It’s a baron land that has changed hands for centuries […]
Today is the big day. Game Day. Turkey v Wales Day. We have only been here two nights but it feels like a week. I […]
A day doing bugger all in a city with bugger all to do. We are up at the crack of noon and ready to rock. […]
Peppermint Iguana Radio Show 328 was a bit of a Turkish Delight, featuring several tunes by Turkish artists, to get us in the mood for […]
An unusually short trip for us, we are heading out to Turkey embeded with Wonky Sheep, the official FAW travel partner. We normally prefer to […]
We’re in Dubrovnik. Best we do some Dubrovnik stuff. We have learnt that if you do everything you want to do on ‘holiday’, you will […]
Today we went on another trip. Apparently in Dubrovnik, but it certainly didn’t feel like it. The Elaphite islands A slightly more civilised start time […]
Today we are up early, with passports in hand: we are going on a trip into Bosnia and Herzegovina The lyric, ‘Cheap Holiday in Someone […]
We had big plans for today. They were all put on hold when we couldn’t be arsed to get out of bed. We wandered down […]
Finally made it into Dubrovnik Old Town today for a proper mwch around. The public transport system appears to be efficient and punctual. We have […]
Today we did pretty much nothing at all, but I’m not going to let that stop me writing a blog. The lack of sleep over […]
I hate the phrase ‘Bucket List’, it casually accepts that you’re going to ‘kick the bucket’. But Dubrovnik has been top of my list of […]
We might have to wait till tomorrow to watch Wales, but today we got to see Whales. The Red Wall are well and truly filling […]
In today’s exciting blog, we have tales of volcanoes, waterfalls, trolls and rainbows. Yes, we ventured beyond the city limits again today. In daylight this […]
After fitting in three gigs in grassroots venues, we bring our tour to an end with a stadium gig.
First full day in Bratislava. Things start to actually get a bit footbally today. First off, hi to Alan. Or was it Dave? No it […]
A tale of two cities. Today we head from Vienna to Bratislava, the two closest capital cities in the world. Or it might be Europe, […]
First (and last) full day in Vienna. We were up at the crack of noon. We watched some more Buster Keaton silent movies – I […]
Never mind the Euros, here’s the away friendly in Slovakia. Ish. Spoiler Alert. Blog features Japanese Psychedelic Stoner Drone, Costa Rican Surf Punk, Austrian Sludge […]
Day one of an adventure in the South of France Well, I say day one, it’s day 0.5, it’s travelling day. We were up with […]
I’m up early to watch us sail into Stavanger. Fourth largest city in Norway. It is the gateway to the Fjords. A bit like Trehafod […]
We were up reasonably early, waking up to the sight of the North Sea scrolling past our bedroom window. The sea was much calmer than […]
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