I’m in Japan! I’m actually in Tokyo! Me! I can barely believe it! For a man who’s got previously got lost a few hundred metres from the home he’s lived in for over a decade, with a bad sense of direction, speaking no other languages than English, pretty much unprepared for the backpacking life and [...]

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So my big trip is here! Japan – wow, for most of my life that was just a far away place I thought I’d never see; now, I’m just hours away from being in one of the most exiting places on Earth. I’m at the airport gate right now and feeling a few emotions. Excited, [...]

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That was some week! I’m a month into my sabbatical, have been to Norway and Madrid, about to go to New York, with Japan and Australia coming up at the end of the month…and yet I had one of the best weeks of my life at home! I don’t want to blog about the main [...]

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“How’s the sabbatical going?” “So what do you do all day now that you’re not working?” “Do you get up at, like, 12 o’clock?” “Do you miss work?” “When and where are you off next?” These seem to be the regular questions I get asked these days, so I thought I’d answer them all here [...]

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My sabbatical rolls on! After Norway, there was no rest as a couple of days later I was on my way to Newcastle and Nottingham with my two mates Si and Chief for a couple of random nights out. Two days after that, I was off to Madrid…   Tuesday Allison drops me off at Luton [...]

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I wake up, sad to be leaving in a few hours. I go to breakfast and chat to the friendly guy from Somerset who’s staying on for the full twelve days, and now I wish that I was too. I gather up my stuff and head up on deck for the last time to take [...]

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7am and I need to get up. It looks bright outside and although I have had sunsets, I haven’t had a sunrise yet. The lazy part of me reminds me it’s a holiday and a bed’s there to be slept in, but the photographer side tempts me with imagined photos no rest could rival. I [...]

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