Imagine walking around every day feeling overwhelmingly in love with your surroundings. Every-single-day. Feeling unable to open your eyes wide enough to take it all in, trying to open your heart as much as possible, somehow hoping to capture the experience, the emotions - remember every little thing you are seeing, you are feeling. This …
Continue reading My favourite day in my favourite city – WWII Gin Drinkers Tunnels, Hong Kong
‘I love diving but I don’t think I ever look as happy as I see you when I look at your eyes underwater!’ Deco Joe, to me. I looked down, and there it was; through the hundreds of spawning red snapper - my first Bull Shark. Unmistakable with its square snout and thick, sturdy body, …
In all honesty, I had no interest in visiting Cebu City. When I first learnt that a typhoon was due to hit Malapuscua the day I was due to go I thought about staying there to wait it out, but decided against, and would take my chances at the Ferry port town of Maya. After …
When I left my hostel on Monday morning my heart sank a little. I was prepared for the cold, even for a few short showers, but with the dark, grey skies raining down a mix of rain and snow that wasn't going to settle, I just foresaw myself being very wet, and very cold all …
Despite being asked many times in my life about what it was like growing up in Japan, I'd never been to the Land of the Rising Sun before. My reason for visiting Hiroshima, unsurprising to anyone that knows me, was the due to it being the place of denotation of the world's first Atomic Bomb. …
I'm not talking about extreme or dangerous travel. I'm talking music... Hardcore; with its heavy riffs that spark off some crazy internal surge of intensity - seemingly out of no-where, an emotional explosion, when everything stops, nothing matters and it's just THIS. You either get THIS, or you don't. I listen to, and love a lot of types …
A weekend hardcore festival with the ladies you say? In Belgium? Where exactly? Ieper? As in the WWI battlefield area… Fields of poppies Ieper? Yes? Ah this sounds interesting, I shall go…. Tyrell So fast forward a few months and I was travelling alone on the 6am Eurostar attempting to reach Ieper in time for an afternoon …
In the car going home, putting all the pieces of the last few days together. Where to start? I knew this trip would be interesting, but the way it’s opened my eyes isn’t something I expected. I also didn’t realise how much I would learn about my Grandfather. All I’ve ever known is that he …
Today was all about the American input at Utah and Omaha beach. The Rangers, the Parachuters...) If you look at the top left of the Church you can see John Steele playing dead (obviously not him, but a mannequin they put up each year). When we arrived at Omaha beach it was packed with families …
Juno Beach, Gold Beach, Arromanches (Mulberry Harbour) & the Bayeux Tapestry We started the day by visiting Juno (Canadian) and Gold (UK) beaches. Throughout the tour we were of course told many facts and figures, but it was the stories of despair, chaos and bravery that really stuck, and gave me an insight into the …
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