We have the Isle of Man and Mexico has the Isle of Women (Isla Mujeres). Me and Gilma sailed across to this little gem in the Caribbean Sea in the early afternoon. I’d come to Mexico for a complete break and not to play footy, but it was Gilma who motivated me to have...

You can tell a lot from a bandstand in an urban area . This one had no graffiti , no pee stains and no litter . It hadn’t been abused in any way, save for the elements, despite being accessible to the public at all times .

This is Zurich. Safe, well ordered , very low c...

ETH Zurich in the most prestigious university in Switzerland, the best in continental Europe and in the top 6 universities in the world. No less than 21 Nobel Prizes have been awarded to graduates of the ETH. I had a wander up there this morning to see if I could engag...

Salzburg in the west of Austria is worth visiting by train from the east because of the glorious, stupendous mountains and valleys you go through to get to it. Apart from that....it’s really boring here. It’s definitely a Salzburg thing because Vienna is very grand and...

A game with a band on a bridge ! 

After a brilliant game in the morning at the day centre , me and Alexis (from Malaysia , staying at the same hostel ), took a walk around Ljubljana looking for our next spot to play .

Ljubljana is a stunning, fairytale city with the Rive...

The first person I met when I got off the bus in Slovenia’s capital Ljubljana, was Edin who was selling the city’s equivalent of The Big Issue in the street . I arranged to meet him the day after and visit the homeless day centre he uses, Kralji Ulice (Kings of the Str...

This was Mickey’s last morning in Budapest so we headed up to the famous Széchenyi spa to soak our bones . What a place , thermal baths of varying temperatures and budgie smugglers of all nationalities . The blokes on the continent just don’t care , the tighter the tru...

So me and Mickey had a walk into the centre of Budapest, where we found a square of shallow water where the locals and tourists were sat dangling their feet in the lovely cooling pool. Off came the socks and shoes and there we sat like two blokes off Last of the Summer...

The impressive Heroes' Square is the largest square in Budapest and was built to mark the thousandth anniversary of Hungary in 1896.

My mate Mickey Loveder was built in 1968 and is himself a most impressive monument to cheeky rascality . He flew out especially to join m...

What a night ! Will put it all in the book - ... quick version .. 

Took a walk from hostel at 6pm determined to play footy with Slovakians . Found myself in front of an Italian and had a quick spaghetti bolognese. Walking back to my hostel resigned on having only one ga...