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Jonny Blair
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Northern Irish Backpacker, Travel Writer, Author, Blogger, Teacher. Poland🇵🇱based. Visited 229 countries, wrote 10 Books, 5,000 blog posts. LoveNI☘️GAWA💚⚽AFC Bournemouth Cherries🍒Featured on BBC,BelTel&The Sun #dontstopliving #ulsterczyk #whackpacking
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Jonny Blair @jonnyblair.bsky.social · Nov 21
If you want something BLaCK🖤⚫️◼️🏴🩶for BLaCK FRIDaY buy my black book - THE BLaCK VOLUME🤣😍👍This is all my dark, wild, mad, unusual, weird, lost stories from countries 0-100 on my wacaday journey.
#TheBlackVolume #BackpackingCenturion #writer #dontstopliving #author

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Finally Released: Backpacking Centurion: Volume 4 – The Black Volume🖤🩶❌ - Don't Stop Living
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That Time Northern Ireland🔴🤚☘️Were In The World Cup Final🏆⚽️ #norniron #northernireland #gawa #worldcupfinal #miniworldcup #littleworldcup arconadaarmstrong.com/that-time-no...
That Time Northern Ireland🔴🤚☘️Were In The World Cup Final🏆⚽️ - Arconada...Armstrong!
No, it’s not fake news, it’s not all a dream, the Northern Ireland international football team were once in the World Cup Final! It was a tournament known as the Little World Cup or the Mini-World Cup...
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December 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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A story in the Gulf Times about my time backpacking Afghanistan away. War tourism in Afghanistan: is it worth the risk? #gulftimes #afghanistan #tourist #dontstopliving
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War tourism in Afghanistan: is it worth the risk?
Thousands of people are fleeing the conflict roiling Afghanistan, but American backpacker John Milton recently made the reverse journey to the war-ravaged country – for a...
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December 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Thirsty Thursdays: Touring Over 50% Of The Bars Of Alderney In One Weekend!!. “Alderney on loneliness; motorcycle emptiness” – Manic Street Preachers (altered lyric). #drinkpacking #touring #alderney #barpacking #dontstopliving dontstopliving.net/thirsty-thur...
Thirsty Thursdays: Touring Over 50% Of The Bars Of Alderney In One Weekend!! - Don't Stop Living
"Alderney on loneliness; motorcycle emptiness" - Manic Street Preachers (altered lyric). On arrival into Alderney in July 2022, I picked up my usual maps and guides to this small island country. It was my first time to visit magical Alderney having previously been…
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December 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Dziwaczne Odkrycia: Visiting The Wooden Houses Of Osiedle Przyjaźń In Bemowo, Warszawa🪵🪓🏠🛖🏚 with Trevor from @nomadicbackpacker.bsky.social #warszawa #bemowo #nomadicbackpacker #nimip www.northernirishmaninpoland.com/dziwaczne-od...
Dziwaczne Odkrycia: Visiting The Wooden Houses Of Osiedle Przyjaźń In Bemowo, Warszawa🪵🪓🏠🛖🏚
"Our house; in the middle of our street" - Madness. When you start living in a city, everything around you is taken for granted. It's the way it usually goes. Most people don't like to be
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November 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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With @jonnyblair.bsky.social in Warsaw 2024
December 6, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Dziwaczne Odkrycia: Visiting The Wooden Houses Of Osiedle Przyjaźń In Bemowo, Warszawa🪵🪓🏠🛖🏚 with Trevor from @nomadicbackpacker.bsky.social #warszawa #bemowo #nomadicbackpacker #nimip www.northernirishmaninpoland.com/dziwaczne-od...
Dziwaczne Odkrycia: Visiting The Wooden Houses Of Osiedle Przyjaźń In Bemowo, Warszawa🪵🪓🏠🛖🏚
"Our house; in the middle of our street" - Madness. When you start living in a city, everything around you is taken for granted. It's the way it usually goes. Most people don't like to be
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November 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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I don't do "Black Friday"😂but I did write "The Black Volume" 🖤🩶❌😍(released November 2023). It is a book about all my dark, crazy, NUTS loyal stories. The madness from my 100 country journey.
#theblackvolume #ulsterczyk #dontstopliving #backpackingcenturion
November 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Glory days loyal backpacking the Kong. 🇭🇰 Yau Tong! Hong Kong!
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Backpacking in Hong Kong: Top 5 Things to See and Do in Yau Tong - Don't Stop Living
So when I'm not hardcore backpacking through endless towns on this planet, I try to base myself out in Hong Kong and need to catch up on some posts about arguably my adopted "home".…
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November 27, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Sunday’s Inspiration: Homeless, Aimless, Gameless – My Fall From Grace In September 2025
“Saw a vagabond king wear a Styrofoam crown, wondered if I might end up the same” – Jon Bon Jovi.

#homeless #aimless #gameless #fallfromgrace #dontstopliving #onthestreet
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Sunday’s Inspiration: Homeless, Aimless, Gameless – My Fall From Grace In September 2025 - Don't Stop Living
“Saw a vagabond king wear a Styrofoam crown, wondered if I might end up the same” – Jon Bon Jovi. This time it was me. Homeless. Aimless. Gameless. Grace fall. Vagabond. Nomad. Nowhere. Lost. Lonely. Lazy. My world had come down. It was always going to... With the lifestyle I have…
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November 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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"Georgie, Georgie, they called you the Belfast Boy" - Don Fardon. Twenty years ago I flew back to Belfast in Northern Ireland to attend the funeral of this legend. GEORGE BEST. #georgebest #belfastboy #belfastchild
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Attending George Best’s Funeral at Stormont, Belfast, Northern Ireland - Don't Stop Living
"We won't forget our Belfast boy, who filled our lives with so much joy" George Best was the best football player ever. He was also the fifth Beatle. He was also a total hit with the ladies and basically the first superstar footballer. When I was a kid,…
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November 25, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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📆[25/11/2013]| On This Day Manic Street Preachers released Anthem For A Lost Cause, the second single from Rewind The Film.

#ManicStreetPreachers
November 25, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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I was delighted to be featured on the website of my old University, Bournemouth in the south of England once I had backpacked 100 real countries. One hundred countries later – Jonny’s story. #bournemouth #bournemouthuniversity #backpacking #tourist microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk/student-blog...
Student Blog | One hundred countries later – Jonny’s story | Bournemouth University
One hundred countries later – Jonny’s story
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November 22, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Sixteen Cool Facts About Poland That The Polish Might Not Even Know #polishfacts #poland #nimip #ulsterczyk
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Sixteen Cool Facts About Poland That The Polish Might Not Even Know
I'm a bit of a fact freak and I always love learning new facts about countries I backpack to, Poland opened up a new ball game when I (completely unexpectedly) relocated to this beautiful country
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November 22, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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How To Get A Tourist Visa For Niger🇳🇪 At The Embassy In Berlin, Germany #berlin #germany #niger #niamey #visaloyal #nigeraway #tourist #dontstopliving
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How To Get A Tourist Visa For Niger🇳🇪 At The Embassy In Berlin, Germany - Don't Stop Living
"Another night, another dream, but always you" - The Real McCoy. How To Get A Tourist Visa For Niger At The Embassy In Berlin, Germany When you're suddenly on a lifelong quest to whackpack / backpack (in the old format) to every…
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November 22, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Backpacking in Nauru: Busting the Myths About This Lesser Known Island Country “You’re turning every modern theory on its head” – Gryff Rhys. #nauru #backpacking #dontstopliving #tourist #yaren #mythbusting
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Backpacking in Nauru: Busting the Myths About This Lesser Known Island Country - Don't Stop Living
"You're turning every modern theory on its head" - Gryff Rhys. Nauru is a real enigma for your travelling mindset. Before arriving here, you hear all sorts of fake stories about how it is the most remote island in the world, it’s the…
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November 22, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Mr and Mrs CDMX ❤️
November 22, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Climbing Mount Kinabalu in Borneo: Day 2 Part 1 – Up at 2am for Breakfast and Starting the Hike #kinabalu #hiking #backpacking
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Climbing Mount Kinabalu in Borneo: Day 2 Part 1 – Up at 2am for Breakfast and Starting the Hike - Don't Stop Living
OK folks, so if you've followed my posts in sequence from climbing Mount Kinabalu in Borneo, you'll know I completed day one and we headed to the Waras Hut in Kinabalu to sleep for a few hours. And it really was just a few hours! We got…
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November 20, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Backpacking In Nepal 🇳🇵: Visiting The Boudhanath Stupa And Buddhist Shrine, Kathmandu #nepal #kathmandu #buddhism #dontstopliving dontstopliving.net/backpacking-...
Backpacking In Nepal 🇳🇵: Visiting The Boudhanath Stupa And Buddhist Shrine, Kathmandu - Don't Stop Living
"My spirit has been purified" - Noel Gallagher. I enjoyed a ram packed, action whacked brace of days in Nepal's capital city, Kathmandu. It was actually a city that didn't surprise me at all. I expected it to be like this. Poky streets, friendly…
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November 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Ceuta, Spanish Autonomous City on the continent of Africa. #Ceuta #NomadicBackpacker
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Ceuta - Spanish Autonomous City in Africa
Ceuta is one of 2 Spanish autonomous cities located on the continent of Africa. The other one is Melilla. I stayed for two nights
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November 20, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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Follow our live blog for updates as Northern Ireland find out their fate.
World Cup Play-Off Draw | Who will Northern Ireland be paired with in their Semi-Final?
Northern Ireland is set to find out who it will play in the Play-Offs for the 2026 World Cup at today’s draw in Switzerland (12pm GMT).
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November 20, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Book Review - Starogard Girl is an excellent new book by Jonny Blair, the Northern Irish travel writer behind the blog Northern Irishman in Poland. #starogardgirl #bookreview #author #writer #backpacker #nimip #ulsterczyk #tourist witanworld.com/article/2025...
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November 17, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Sunday’s Inspiration: Homeless, Aimless, Gameless – My Fall From Grace In September 2025
“Saw a vagabond king wear a Styrofoam crown, wondered if I might end up the same” – Jon Bon Jovi.

#homeless #aimless #gameless #fallfromgrace #dontstopliving #onthestreet
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Sunday’s Inspiration: Homeless, Aimless, Gameless – My Fall From Grace In September 2025 - Don't Stop Living
“Saw a vagabond king wear a Styrofoam crown, wondered if I might end up the same” – Jon Bon Jovi. This time it was me. Homeless. Aimless. Gameless. Grace fall. Vagabond. Nomad. Nowhere. Lost. Lonely. Lazy. My world had come down. It was always going to... With the lifestyle I have…
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November 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Was Haiti a successful slave rebellion? The slave riot began in 1791 and was controlled by 1793. Anyway, slavery was abolished by Frenchman Sonthonax in 1794 for others circumstances. Not for slaves protest or fights.
Yanga was a true successful slave revolt in 1572.
November 15, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Backpacking In Haiti🇭🇹: Touring Port-Au-Prince, Home Of The World’s Only Successful Slave Rebellion #haiti #portauprince #dontstopliving #backpacking #whackpacking dontstopliving.net/backpacking-...
Backpacking In Haiti🇭🇹: Touring Port-Au-Prince, Home Of The World’s Only Successful Slave Rebellion - Don't Stop Living
"Everybody wants to tell what's already been told" - Prince. After two cancelled flights, I finally arrived in Port-Au-Prince in Haiti, two days later than expected and with my time here cut short. However, I more than made up for that by trying to cram a lot of hardcore backpacking…
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November 15, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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The Immigration Procedure When Landing In Dzaoudzi, Mayotte🇾🇹, And What Is Mayotte🇾🇹? #mayotte #backpacking #whackpacking #dzaoudzi #mamoudzou #dontstopliving
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The Immigration Procedure When Landing In Dzaoudzi, Mayotte🇾🇹, And What Is Mayotte🇾🇹? - Don't Stop Living
"Altogether now, in no man's land" - The Farm.🇾🇹 A while back, I wrote that it is possible to backpack through the European Union at Africa away. What I meant is that sadly, generations on, European countries such as France, Portugal, Spain and England…
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November 15, 2025 at 11:33 PM