“Close your eyes so you don’t feel them. They don’t need to see you cry. I can’t promise I will heal you, but if you want to, I will try” – Robbie Williams. 16 months into my new life in Poland and I flabbergast myself each day. Poland is a beautiful country and I have Read more about Top 9 Stonewall Reasons Why I Love Living in Poland[…]
“Nigdy nie widziałem Warszawy tak pięknej, jak dzisiejszego wieczoru” – King Zygmunt. (“I never saw Warszawa as beautiful as I saw her tonight”) When I was asked by my Polish language school (the excellent Klub Dialogu) to do a presentation about Northern Irish culture, I was delighted and honoured to be given such an opportunity. Read more about Pracujące Poniedziałki: A Northern Irish Evening At Klub Dialogu, Warszawa[…]
Is it hard to learn Polish? Is it really a hard language? Or is this just another myth concocted by unintelligent wannabes in the quest for global superiority? I don’t really care, but at least today I can give you my personal view on it – again and as ever – only my opinion. Nothing Read more about Pracujące Poniedziałki: My Top 5 Reasons Why Learning Polish Is Difficult[…]
“Happiness lies in your own hands” – Madonna (lest, she was wrong). Dzien dobry! This is a happy blog, my real life story and I try to tell it like that, I am so grateful for you all and for your support, but as I am so honest and open, here is today’s truth. A Read more about My Story Goes On But My Depression Began One Year Ago Today[…]
“Welcome to my world” – Jim Reeves. A different Pracujące Poniedziałki (Working Mondays) for you today as I delve into my own wacaday, mysterious world where I add my own words and invent new words to and within the English language. If “to hoover” is a verb, “tannoy” is a noun and “facebooky” an adjective, then I Read more about Pracujące Poniedziałki: Inventing my Own English Words, Jonny Blair’s Dictionary, Jonnego Blairowski[…]
“Yer man’s a buck eejit so he is” – My mate from Belfast (and his Da) Back in the day, I used to run a “best Northern Irish travel blogs” series on a previous incarnation of my travels. When I quit that travel blog in 2016, the ill-fated “Don’t Stop Living”, I was 100% sure Read more about Top 5 Northern Irish Travel Blogs 2017[…]
Buy my Backpacking Centurion book series – Volume 1 – Don’t Look Back In Bangor Volume 2 – Lands Down Under Volume 3 – Taints And Honours Volume 4 – The Black Volume Buy my This Is The Next Century Series – Volume 1 – Aftershot Volume 2 – Starogard Girl Volume 3 – Fool Circle Volume 4 – The Darker Volume Read more about NIMIP Presents…BACKPACKING CENTURION: A Northern Irishman’s Journey Through 100 Countries. By Jonny Blair.[…]