"see the open mouth of my suitcase saying 'leave this place'"

- Dave Pirner 'Without A Trace'

What’s going on here?

This is a totally honest travel blog. No shiny influencing*, no genAI, just a guy seeing the world a day at a time and trying to make sense of it all.

See the tag cloud below for an idea of what I do and see on my travels, and what I remember enough of to write about after.

If you read this and like it, that’s swell.

*If you read any of these posts and then decide you’d like to shower me in thousands of dollars to go somewhere and write about it just like I do about anywhere, I’m happy to talk.

Latest

  • Buns2025: Days 14-18 – Belfast > Singapore

    Soundtrack: “Departure”, R.E.M. Filling in the last few gaps from a couch in Nyungar Boodjar, home at last. My final morning in Belfast was full of rain. I had a plan: […]
    December 3, 2025
  • Buns2025: Day 13 – Belfast

    Soundtrack: “Down among the dead men”, Flash and the Pan Titanic. But first, the quest for breakfast. I wanted to find whatever a traditional Northern Ireland breakfast was, to collect the […]
    November 28, 2025
  • Buns2025: Day 13 – Dublin > Belfast

    Soundtrack: “Teenage Kicks”, The Undertones One last morning in Dublin, time for breakfast and last minute shopping. I made the rookie breakfast mistake of trying somewhere different, and not the Potato […]
    November 27, 2025
  • Buns2025: Day 12 – Dublin & Cork, mostly Cork

    Soundtrack: “Irish Rover”, The Pogues Miraculously awoke with functioning hearing. Dublin’s public transport includes buses and trams (there might be suburban trains too but as I’m not needing to go to […]
    November 26, 2025
  • Buns2025: Day 11 – Dublin

    Soundtrack: “To here knows when”, My Bloody Valentine Well I kinda managed to take it easy today. Started off with breakfast near the banks of the Liffey at the Irish Potato […]
    November 25, 2025