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NIMIP Presents…BACKPACKING CENTURION: A Northern Irishman’s Journey Through 100 Countries. By Jonny Blair.

Backpacking Centurion – A Northern Irishman’s Journey Through 100 Countries

Volume 1 – Don’t Look Back In Bangor

Chapter 1 – Fool Circle (April 2015)
Chapter 2 – My Childhood Sweetheart (The 1980s)
Chapter 3 – Arconada…Armstrong! (25th June 1982)
Chapter 4 – My First Backpacking Adventure (1991)
Chapters 5, 6 and 7 Prelude to the Bangor Grammar School Trilogy
Chapter 5 – The Great Exam Heist (May 1994)
Chapter 6 – Where Were You While We Were Getting High? (1994 – 1996)
Chapter 7 – The OXI One (25th June 1997)
Chapter 8 – The Good Friday Disagreement (1997 – 1998)
Chapter 9 – My Favourite Mistake (2001 – 2002)
Chapter 10 – Don’t Stop Living (2001 onwards)
Chapter 11 – The Lock In (2003 onwards)
Chapter 12 – The Night I Sacked My Flatmate (2004)
Chapter 13 – For Your Arms Only (30th March 2004)
Chapter 14 – Lauren (2004 – 2005)
Chapter 15 – The Seventy Quid Taxi (March 2005)
Chapter 16 – Barfgate (March 2005)
Chapter 17 – The Original Monopoly Pub Crawl (April 2005)
Chapter 18 – Travel Blogging Chilled The Radio Star (1997 – 2008)
Chapter 19 – The Best Rock’n’Roll Band You Never Heard Of (2005 – 2006)
Chapter 20 – The Isle of Wight Green (2006)
Chapter 21 – Biting the Apple (2006 – 2007)
Chapter 22 – What’s A Travel Blog? (2007)
Chapter 23 – How Till Get Drunk for Ten Dollars in New York City (July 2007)
Chapter 24 – Dust From a Distant Sun (July 2007)
Chapter 25 – A Fast Flight to China (July 2007)
Chapter 26 – Multiple B (August 2007)
Chapter 27 – Present (August 2007)
Chapter 28 – He Wears An Ulster Hat (September 2007)
Chapter 29 – Right Backs on the Left (September 2007)
Chapter 30 – SOENISC, The Glory Years (2005 – 2009)
Chapter 31 – Ulster Cherry (2003 – 2005)
Chapter 32 – The Day We Got Relegated (May 2008)
Chapter 33 – Walletless in Trieste (October 2008)
Chapter 34 – Wegoslavia (October 2008)
Chapter 35 – Cod and a Good Romance (2008 – 2009)

Volume 2 – Lands Down Under

Chapter 36 – Hungarian Dancer (April 2009)
Chapter 37 – Blueberry Muffinhead (11th June 2009, around 11.43 p.m.)
Chapter 38 – Hat-trick of Crescents and an Unstoppable (Summer 2009)
Chapter 39 – Floodgate Streetlight (October 2009)
Chapter 40 – Hereford Away (September 2009)
Chapter 41 – Xinying, Chiayi City and the Don’t Stop Living Globe (October 2009)
Chapter 42 – The Non-Existent 2 a.m. Bus to Taidong (Sunday 11th October 2009)
Chapter 43 – Living in A Land Down Under (October 2009)
Chapter 44 – Dancing with Wolverine: Midnight in Canberra (January 2010)
Chapter 45 – The Defining Backpacker Victory Night (January 2010)
Chapter 46 – Broccoli Fields Forever (February 2010)
Chapter 47 – There A Bottle O’ in Wesley Vale? (February 2010)
Chapter 48 – A Dream Uninspired Return to Taupo (October 2010)
Chapter 49 – Diego Marijuana (November 2010)
Chapter 50 – Proper Frostbit So It Is (November 2010)
Chapter 51 – The Full Montevideo (November 2010)
Chapter 52 – Tres Fronteras, City of the East to Milton Melgar Town (December 2010)
Chapter 53 – Hi Ho Silver Mining (December 2010)
Chapter 54 – A Slow Bus to Cuzco (Christmas 2010)
Chapter 55 – Quito Playing Games with My Heart (December 2010)
Chapter 56 – Swapping Cameras for Cows (New Year’s Eve 2010)
Chapter 57 – Fright of the Navigator (January 2011)
Chapter 58 – In Of Africa (January 2011)
Chapter 59 – Sweet Home Parramatta (February 2011)
Chapter 60 – Where Did it All Go Kong? (June 2011)
Chapter 61 – Chris’s House Party (August 2011)
Chapter 62 – Seoul Mates (December 2011)
Chapter 63 – The X Man (March 2012)
Chapter 64 – Internations and The Business Of Travel Blogging (2011 – 2013)
Chapter 65 – This Is The Day When It All Changed (May 2012)
Chapter 66 – Does South East Asia Deserve a Chapter? (October 2011)
Chapter 67 – Pub Crawl Cluedo: Bury Away (April 2012)
Chapter 68 – Chaos in Laos (July 2012)
Chapter 69 – Christmas in China (December 2012)
Chapter 70 – My Highest Birthday (March 2013)
Chapter 71 – Hyena Feeding in Harar (August 2013)
Chapter 72 – Pyongyangian Rhapsody (September 2013)
Chapter 73 – Staying in a Kibbutz in Israel (September 2013)

Volume 3 – Taints and Honours

Chapter 74 – A Decade Away (September 26th 2013)
Chapter 75 – O Little Town of Bethlehem (October 2013)
Chapter 76 – This; A Visit to Stalin’s Town (October 2013)
Chapter 77 – How Not Till Get Out Of Nagorno Karabakh (October – November 2013)
Chapter 78 – City Of Love (November 2013)
Chapter 79 – Turkish Delights (November 2013)
Chapter 80 – A Month In Iran (December 2013)
Chapter 81– Iraq No Phobia (December 2013 – January 2014)
Chapter 82 – Some Alarms And Some Surprises, Please (January 2014)
Chapter 83 – Nicky Barmby (2004 – Ongoing)
Chapter 84 – I’m in Brazil, I’m Northern Irish (June 2014)
Chapter 85 – Remote And Out Of Control (June 2014)
Chapter 86 – Sloth Island (June 2014)
Chapter 87 – The World Cup Final Isn’t Played On Glass (July 2014)
Chapter 88 – Hiking Tajumulco, Central America’s Highest Peak (August 2014)
Chapter 89 – Firefight (August 2014)
Chapter 90 – Staying In The World’s Most Dangerous City (September 2014)
Chapter 91 – Whose Wine Is It Hemingway? (September 2014)
Chapter 92 – Andorra’s Box (October 2014)
Chapter 93 – The Figure Of Eight (October 2014)
Chapter 94 – Elation To Constipation To Victoria Station (October 2014)
Chapter 95 – Cushy Kishinev (November 2014)
Chapter 96 – Lenin Glad, Wacaday and Back (packing) in the USSR (November 2014)
Chapter 97 – PND Minus Her Name (15th November 2014, 21:38 in the evening)
Chapter 98 – Veliko Tarnovo (December 2014)
Chapter 99 – Poddy’s Day (December 2014)
Chapter 100 – Paddy’s Night (Not To Be Confused With Saint Patrick’s Night!) (December 2014)
Chapter 101 – Where Iain “Iain Dowie” Dowie Dowie-d (January 2015)
Chapter 102 – Suomi Sauna (January 2015)
Chapter 103 – Angel’s Home (5th February 2015)
Chapter 104 – Roadrunner Toothbrush (October 2000)
Chapter 105 – Title Track (October 2004)
Chapter 106 – Tommy Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (Time Immemorial)
Chapter 107 – Countries That Didn’t Get Chapters
Chapter 108 – Fjord Fiesta (February 2015)
Chapter 109 – Backpacking Centurion (27th March 2015)

About the Author

Jonny Blair is a Northern Irish travel writer based in Poland. Jonny was born in Newtownards in 1980 and grew up in Bangor in Northern Ireland. Since leaving his hometown in 2003, Jonny has travelled far and wide, detailing his journeys on his one man travel blog, Don’t Stop Living. Jonny has visited over 180 countries across all seven continents including Iran, Ethiopia, Andorra, China and Suriname. Jonny has also travelled to some lesser known places such as the Republic of Uzupis, Podjistan, Nauru, Kugelmugel, Sark, Antarctica, Nagorno Karabakh, Iraqi Kurdistan and The Empire of Austenasia. As well as working as a freelance writer, editor, teacher and copywriter, Jonny has also worked in bars, hotels and restaurants as well as on ferries, in farms, in schools and in offices. Jonny writes every day in some capacity and is also a poet and a football fanzine editor. Aside from travel, Jonny is a passionate football supporter of Glentoran FC, AFC Bournemouth, Klub Pilkarski Starogard and Northern Ireland. Jonny aims to inspire other people to get out there and see the world with their own two eyes.
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