Category: travel
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The Marketing Adventurers League is Coming!
Are you having adventures (or misadventures) in marketing? Do you want to join a supportive community of side hustlers/small business owners/new business owners looking for advice on how to get established and scale their business? If so, the Marketing Adventurers League is for you. Join the waitlist here to be the first to hear when…
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Misadventure: 4am in a tree with a flute
When I was at uni I thought I did ridiculous deeds because I was drunk, but as I’ve gotten older, I’ve come to realise that I did ridiculous deeds anyway, and sometimes I was also partially inebriated. During an archaeological dig at a place called Star Carr in the summer holidays between first and second…
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Misadventure: A Very Louis Theroux Dinner in America
While I was in America, I had a bit of downtime between a couple of book conferences so I decided to head to a lovely beach town in Virginia. I booked ten days at a beachfront hotel which was delightful but left me with a lot of free time. I was working hard on marketing,…
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Misadventure: Brook jumping
When I was six, seven and eight, Saturdays were always housework. Usually, that meant spending all morning cleaning and tidying. There was dusting my stepdad’s collection of beer taps (what? Your house wasn’t full of these?) and my mum’s… random collection of shite like an owl dressed to play cricket draped with random offcuts of…
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Misadventure: I fell off a cliff
If you’re from Cheadle, you’ll probably know about Hawksmoor. If you’re not from Cheadle, you won’t. If you take the Oakamoor road, just after the turn-off signposted to Rocester, Hawksmoor begins with the funny parking area in front of a big cliff with a wood around and above it. It’s where the fields end and…
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Misadventure: I’d rather swallow Donald Trump’s plum juice than eat there again.
Picture this: Vietnam*. New Year’s Eve, 2018. The air was warm with a gentle breeze. Ho Chi Minh was buzzing, because even though they have a slightly different calendar, they have a massive tourist industry. We were staying in the Japanese quarter, at a lovely apart-hotel. The guy in the apartment next to ours was…
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Misadventure: The can machine
When I was at middle school… Actually, I need to start by explaining that a middle school is year 5 to year 8 in England, or age 9-13. Some areas still have them. The education system in Britain is fundamentally indefinable and since I went to 13 schools around the country, I sampled most variations.…
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Best Places To Park in York
Are you looking for the best places to park in York without paying a fortune or queueing for years to circle a car park with no spaces? This article is going to cover the best places to park and save money on parking in York. I’ve written this article for all the men (and women)…
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Review: Best Western White Horse Hotel Derry
I’ve never stayed in a hotel that was so bad in so many different ways. Usually in the past when I’ve had issues it’s been one or two things. Not here. The main issue boiled down to nobody giving a single damn about any aspect of what they were doing, and when people are that…
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Review: Cheap double buggy that fits in a hatchback
Tl;dr it’s the Joie Aire double buggy. When my oldest child was 18 months old I got pregnant again. I really wanted a close age gap but the practicalities were daunting. Most things were going to be hand-me-downs but I didn’t know what on EARTH to do about a pushchair. I looked at several options:…
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