🏍️ More Than Words – Episode 28: Man, Overboard 🏍️
From thundersnow skepticism to toilet reviews, because the Isle of Man’s tourism strategy is apparently “motorcycles at 200mph, Victorian waterwheels, and suspiciously clean public loos.”
Featuring:
⚡ Thundersnow: didn’t exist in my day, fight me
🏴‍☠️ St Maughold: Irish pirate → hermit → bishop
🎯 TT races: 200mph through front gardens, neurosurgeon-level precision
🛞 Lady Isabella Wheel: still turning 170 years later
🚽 Maughold toilets: achieving TripAdvisor acclaim unavailable to most saints
🐴 Douglas horse trams: overtaking modern traffic since 1876
🍟 Chips, cheese & gravy: “the national dish of the Manx people,” per one confident chippy owner
🦘 Kerroogaroo: budget kangaroo knock-off you can probably order from Temu
It’s virtual travel with Old Git weather complaints, shape-shifting water-horses, 0.12 Manx Gaelic swearers, and public conveniences worthy of UNESCO status.

🌊 More Than Words – Episode 27: The Old Man and The Sea 🌊
From glute mutiny to maritime optimism, because apparently the second half of this challenge begins with both my body and the Irish Sea behaving like unreliable contractors.
Featuring:
🦵 Injury rota systems: one strain clocks off, another clocks in


🌊 The Irish Sea: shallow, busy, and permanently one mood swing from chaos


⛴️ Donaghadee: strategic harbour, competitive oldest pub claims


🌾 Millisle Refugee Farm: quiet heroism on a windy field


🗼 Mull of Galloway: lighthouse by a Stevenson, obviously


🏝️ Isle of Man: self-governing, tax-efficient, Viking-flavoured 


🐈 Manx cats: owing tourists a backstory since forever


🏛️ Jurby: drop everything (RAF elective module)


It’s virtual travel with packet boats, nuclear footnotes, medieval legislatures, tax diplomacy, and a body that insists on adding side-quests. Equal parts windswept, historically dense, and mildly unhinged.


🚶‍♂️ More Than Words – Episode 26: Don’t Look Back In Bangor🚶‍♂️

From festive overconfidence to maritime squinting, episode 26 proves that Christmas fitness is mostly about damage limitation and negotiating with your own limbs.

Featuring:

🎄 Christmas walking schedules derailed by cheese

🦵 A mystery leg injury: no fall, no heroics, just betrayal

🏙️ Belfast: linen, shipbuilding, buried rivers, unresolved emotional admin

🚢 Titanic Belfast: industrial trauma, immersive galleries, premium tea towels

🌳 Holywood: monastic roots, Victorian money, and a maypole that refuses to retire

🏛️ Cultra: butter churning, DeLoreans, and cappuccinos in 1900

🏖️ Helen’s Bay: aristocrats, railways, and extremely damp ambition

🏰 Carrickfergus: 800 years of history plus one very awkward street name

⛵ Bangor: saints, Vikings, and Dickens

🪨 Copeland Islands: puffins, lighthouses, and rocks that unsubscribed from society

It’s Christmas inertia, industrial ghosts, coastal squinting, spreadsheet anxiety, seabirds, and a leg that absolutely did not read the plan.