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Don't Look Back In Bangor is the first volume from Jonny Blair's "Backpacking Centurion" series. This book focuses on Jonny's early days growing up in Northern Ireland, watching football and dreaming of one day travelling to far flung places like Yugoslavia, East Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Jonny kicks things off in Northern Ireland, with stories of childhood hobbies, teenage angst and global aspirations. Expect honesty and lies intertwined with regret, remorse, desire and passion. This is a journey of ups and downs. By the end of volume one, Jonny will have taken you from Bangor to Bobruisk, from Belfast to Bournemouth and from Newtownards to Osterweddingen. The book includes diaries from Jonny's first trips abroad, his discovery of unknown places and the loves of his life. It is a thrilling and emotional journey with boundless energy, flawless flair and unstoppable aplomb.
This volume has the timespan 1980 - 2008.
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Jonny Blair is a self-confessed GAWA nut. Jonny was born in Newtownards in 1980 and grew up in Bangor in Northern Ireland. Since leaving his homecity 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 200 countries across all seven continents including places like Bangladesh, Lesotho, Curacao, Nauru and Mauritania. Jonny has also travelled to some lesser known places such as the Kingdom of Romkerhall, Karakalpakstan, Adammia, Sovereign Military Order of Malta, Herm, Antarctica, Gorno Badakhshan, Transnistria and Eneko Island.
As well as working as a freelance writer, editor, author and copywriter, Jonny has also worked in bars, hotels and restaurants as well as on ferries, in farms, in schools and in offices. At the time of this book's publication, Jonny was living in Poland. Jonny writes every day in some capacity and is also a poet, a teacher and a football fanzine editor. Aside from GAWA stuff, Jonny is a passionate football supporter of Dunmurry Rec., Glentoran FC, AFC Bournemouth, Klub Pi¿karski Starogard and Legia Warszawa. Jonny aims to inspire other people to get out there and see the world with their own two eyes.
