Words & Pictures by Shaun Troke Featured Image from Stuff It was 10 years ago this week, in January 2008, when I arrived in Los Angeles, California, where I’d be living for the next three months…and, to greet me from LAX Airport would be my very first Couchsurfing host, Laura. But, let’s back up a … More Couchsurfing: A Decade of Sofa Stories!
Our travel plans for 2018 began during an eventful summer of 2017. My younger brother, Carl, was fighting cancer, and, from May to June last year, had to undergo two months of continuous radiotherapy. These daily radiotherapy sessions also meant that each week Carl was losing a large percentage of his work salary; every radiotherapy … More The Travel Tab: 2018
Words & Pictures by Shaun Troke Beginnings | Boarding | Bliss | Brussels/BXL | B&B | Bring To A Close BEGINNINGS Why Brussels? This is the first question I’ve been asked, repeatedly. One of the answers is that, quite simply, Belgium is a country I’ve never before set foot in… Sure, I passed … More All the ‘B’s! A Blog for Brussels
Words & Pictures by Shaun Troke Foreword Day 1: Familiarity Day 2: Outside The Box Day 3: Consciousness vs Subconsciousness Day 4: East Side Day 5: The Special Day Day 6: West Side Day 7: The End The Last Visit? FOREWORD What was originally a Trip For Two became a Trip For One only a … More New York City: The Last Visit?
Words, Pictures, & Video by Shaun Troke New Years Eve Eve Friday 30th December, 2016 Precisely three months ago on this day – on Friday 30th September – my travel companion & I were made to wait in Manchester Airport for over 4hrs, because our Easyjet flight to Corfu (in Greece) was delayed due to … More Living Funchal
Words, Pictures, & Video by Shaun Troke Wow, this time 5 years ago I was racing against the clock to get to New York City in time for Christmas Eve…which can be concerning when you’re depending on over-packed Greyhound buses! How & why I was heading to New York City for Christmas in 2011 will … More Around the World: 6 Countries in 6 Months
Word, Pictures, & Videos by Shaun Troke FRIDAY 11TH NOVEMBER, 2016: 4:30pm. The sun was beginning to set as the airport transfer coach pulled up into the Reykjavik bus station… The rain had been constant since leaving the airport…however, it wasn’t that cold… In fact, it’d been colder back in Liverpool when walking to the … More Reykjavik: The Iceland Experience
That infamous line uttered by the over-worked… To be honest, though, I’m not over-worked: I actually booked this weekends vacation months ago, before knowing that self-employment was on the horizon. The last two weeks (well, the last 2 months) have been an extremely learning experience, and much has been noted & taken on board, which … More “I need a vacation!”
As expected, the first week of working for yourself kinda feels like a holiday…particularly if you’re immediately going from a full-time salaried job to working for yourself… So, like you do during a holiday week, you catch up on everything you’ve been meaning to. It’s been a week of email writing, meetings, editing, phone calls…on … More The First Week
As one chapter ends, another one starts… And, I’m incredibly excited about this new chapter! The old chapter (let’s call it ‘The Lost Chapter’) leading up to this exciting new one began in the summer of 2009…surviving a severe physical assault, which rendered me having therapy for 6 months, I wasn’t looking to take on … More And so it begins…
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