TRAVEL BLOG: Turkey Away Part Four – Hot Air Balloons and stuff (17/11/24)
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 […]
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TRAVEL BLOG: Turkey v Wales Part Three: Match Day (16/11/24)
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 […]
TRAVEL BLOG: Turkey v Wales Part Two – pubs tickets and pubs (15/11/24)
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. […]
LISTEN AGAIN: Peppermint Iguana Radio Show # 328 – Turkish Delight (12/11/24)
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 […]
TRAVEL BLOG: Turkey v Wales Part One (14/11/24)
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 […]
TRAVEL BLOG: Dubrovnik Part Seven (City Wall 23/10/24)
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 […]
TRAVEL BLOG: Dubrovnik Part Six (The Islands 22/10/26)
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 […]
TRAVEL BLOG: Dubrovnik Part Five (Bosnia 21/10/24)
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 […]
TRAVEL BLOG: Dubrovnik Part Four (Recharging Batteries 20/10/24)
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 […]
TRAVEL BLOG: Dubrovnik Part Three (Walk Around Town 19/10/24)
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 […]
TRAVEL BLOG: Dubrovnik Part Two (Just Chilling 18/10/24)
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 […]
TRAVEL BLOG: Dubrovnik Part One (Travelling 17/10/24)
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 […]
TRAVEL BLOG: Iceland Away Part Five (Whale Watching – 10/10/24)
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 […]
TRAVEL BLOG: Iceland Away Part Four (Classic South Coast Tour – 09/10/24)
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 […]
WALES AWAY: Slovakia 2024 – Part Five – Trnava And All That Jazz (09/06/24)
After fitting in three gigs in grassroots venues, we bring our tour to an end with a stadium gig.
WALES AWAY: Slovakia 2024 Part Four – Four Weddings and a UFO (08/06/24)
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 […]
WALES AWAY: Slovakia 2024 Part Three – Goodnight Vienna (Hello Bratislava) (07/06/24)
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, […]
WALES AWAY: Slovakia 2024 Part Two – Viennese Whirl (06/06/24)
First (and last) full day in Vienna. We were up at the crack of noon. We watched some more Buster Keaton silent movies – I […]
WALES AWAY: Slovakia 2024 Part One (The Vienna Bit)
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 […]
TRAVEL BLOG: French Connections (24/08/23)
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 […]
TRAVEL BLOG: Norway Part Three: All Quiet On The Stavanger Front (07/05/23)
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 […]
TRAVEL BLOG: Norway Part Two: Life On The Ocean Wave (06/05/23)
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 […]
TRAVEL BLOG: Norway Part One: Setting Off Into The Sunset (05/05/23)
Part one of a travel blog about a cruise around the Norwegian fjords. Don’t expect any revelations or insight to lost tribes or anything, it’s […]
WALES AWAY – BELGIUM 2022: Day one, trains, trains and trains (17/09/22)
Diary of a trip to Belgium to watch Wales play away in the Nations League and celebrate me birthday whilst at it. Day one. It […]
Gwen Gwen Fest 2022 – Kidwelly
The Carmarthenshire town of Kidwelly has a go a putting it’s name on the cultural map with Gwen Gwen, it’s first festival of music, art […]
SEVEN GO MILD IN WROCLAW: Poland v Wales part one.
Day one of a trip to Poland to watch Wales away. *All names changed to protect the guilty Flying at 7am doesn’t sound too bad. […]
BAKU BEYOND : PART FOUR: Wales, Bales and local Ales (Azerbaijan 0 Wales 2)
And so it arrives. Match day. Azerbaijan v Wales. The reason we have come all this way. It feels a bit strange. There was a […]
BAKU BEYOND: PART THREE: You can take the boy out of the valley, but you cant take the valley out of the boy
The day started with picking up our tickets for the game. There was a time when getting tickets for Wales games was easy. These days […]
BAKU BEYOND: PART TWO: Instagram City
And so it begins. Finally in Baku. (NB: This is a live blog from my phone. Will tidy up with tidy pictures when I get […]
BAKU BEYOND: PART ONE: Moscow Calling.
Azerbaijan away. They dont get much more exotic than this. But exotic often comes at a price. On this occasion the price is the journey […]