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Looking Back At Two Years Abroad

Glasgow, Scotland Late October 2020 “Glasgow is famously, a tough town. Notorious for its hard drinking, hard living, hard-ass citizenry...

Oct 25, 20205 min read

Coast To Coast

Scotland Late September 2020 With the ongoing COVID19 pandemic limiting our ability to see people, I struggled to decide what to do for...

Oct 18, 20205 min read

Escaping to the Highlands

Inverness - Scotland Late July 2020 Amy and I have had quite different lock-downs. Amy, being an essential worker with the NHS, has...

Aug 10, 20205 min read

Glasgow - Lockdowns & Social Distancing

Glasgow March, May, June... July 2020 As the newsreaders so often insist on saying - these are most uncertain times. Days seemingly roll...

Jun 16, 20203 min read

Andalucia - Back So Soon

Andalucia - Spain February 2020 Much to my jealousy, Amy was to complete her first Marathon in the Spanish city of Seville in late...

Mar 25, 20206 min read

Bulgaria - A Weekend In The Eastern Bloc

Bulgaria – Sofia January 2020 So I finished work at Physioflexx on January 17th. The next day I caught a flight to Sofia, Bulgaria to...

Mar 24, 20203 min read

Christmas In Glasgow - Don't Let The Bells End

Glasgow - Scotland December 2019 December was an odd time for me and was quite a mix of emotions. Glasgow looked a treat for Christmas,...

Mar 24, 20203 min read

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu: How To Make Friends and Choke People

Glasgow - Scotland November 2019 I competed in my first BJJ tournament in November – which was an intense experience to say the least....

Mar 15, 20203 min read

Dublin - Pints & Peptides

Dublin – Ireland Mid October 2019 Another month, another course, and another excuse to travel. Renaissance Periodisation is a group in...

Mar 15, 20206 min read

Malaga - An Evening On The Mediternnean

Malaga - Spain Early October 2019 Our bus wound along the express way, bleak plains slowly broke to become winding, sparsely vegetated...

Mar 14, 20204 min read

Seville - Lost in La Triana

Seville – Spain Early October 2019 Coming from the relatively quiet cities of Granada and Cordoba, Seville was comparatively chaotic when...

Mar 14, 20205 min read

Cordoba - Citrus, Flamenco, and Tinto de Verano

Cordoba – Spain Early October 2019 Perhaps there wasn’t anything to figure out – Cordoba was just itself. Seated on the course limestone...

Mar 14, 20204 min read

Granada - Starting A Spanish Getaway

Granada, Spain Early October 2019 Here we are in Spain, a country we have somehow not been able to visit during any of our trips to...

Feb 4, 20204 min read

Oktoberfest - Ein Prosit Der Gemutlichkeit!

Munich, Germany Late September 2019 It is no secret that Amy and I adore Germany, so going to Oktoberfest has been high on our list for...

Jan 31, 20206 min read

Running South

Cumbria, England Late September 2019 What a weekend. As I write this, I sit in the comfortable, yet sparsely occupied Railway Inn in...

Jan 31, 20203 min read

Keeping Busy

Glasgow, UK September – Keeping Busy. September seemed to all be leading to one thing – our upcoming trip to Munich and Spain. But prior...

Jan 31, 20202 min read

Ska! Ska! Ska!

Manchester, UK Mid-August 2019 Another weekend away – returning to Manchester once again. Having been to Manchester approximately one...

Jan 31, 20203 min read

Between Scotland & England.

Glasgow, UK August 2019 August seemed to repeat itself, but in a very good way. We saw Zivian and Tahlia again, travelled to Edinburgh...

Jan 30, 20203 min read

A Physiotherapist Abroad (And How To Be One)

My thoughts and advice on how to become a Physiotherapist in the UK.

Nov 11, 201912 min read

The West Highland Way

The West Highland Way - Scotland July/August 2019 With Amy’s 30th birthday approaching, we had grand plans for an atypical, but hopefully...

Nov 11, 20193 min read