🏍️ 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.

🌸 More Than Words – Episode 25: The Hothouse Flowers 🌸

From Miami smugness to London tunnels and Northern Ireland’s most over-engineered corridor.

Featuring:

☕ Miami Beach: Cuban coffee, pancakes, and the gentle joy of moderate financial extortion

🎄 Gatecrashing work Christmas parties: all the fun, none of the meetings

🚇 Leake Street Tunnel: Banksy’s legal graffiti playground, rats included

🚂 Portadown: forgetting air-raid shelters exist

🛣️ Craigavon: Britain’s boldest roundabout experiment

🪡 Lurgan: tablecloths, folklore, and a woman buried twice

🌴 Moira: battlefields, pineapples, and Europe’s first hothouse

✈️ Nutt’s Corner: ex-airport, legendary market

It’s travel with graffiti fumes, retirement glow, urban planning disasters, historical trauma, and walking logs stitched across beaches, tunnels, fairways, and roundabouts.

🌴 More Than Words – Episode 24: Not Throwing Away My Shot 🌴

From Caribbean cruise confinement to Tyrone crossroads and compost-related trauma, because nothing says “walking project” like Alexander Hamilton, granite grottoes, plantation paperwork, and a smell you can’t escape.

Featuring:

🏝️ Nevis: tiny island, enormous history

🎭 Alexander Hamilton: overachiever and rapper-by-proxy

🪨 Virgin Gorda: granite boulders showing off like they’re paid per Instagram post

🪨 Gold stones, saintly nagging, and excellent bogs

🚧 Ambush junctions, and a café that sells tights

👃 Cabragh: poor land, rich smell

🧵Quakers, linen, and porridge-brand cosplay

🐎 Waterloo: I was defeated you won the horse

🏰 Forts taken by phishing scams

🛍️ Scotch Street: saints, settlers, prisons, teapots, and a pub sign rebrand

It’s cruise ship Stockholm syndrome, Founding Fathers on holiday, granite flexing, plantation geometry, linen empires, compost protests, and enough history to qualify as emotional cardio.

☀️📍 More Than Words – Stage 23: Show Me the Sunny 📍☀️

One brief detour into cruise-ship excess — then straight back to what we do best: historical over-delivery, questionable decisions, and a stage so dense it should’ve come with a contents page.

Featuring:


🚢 A floating buffet briefly interrupts the walking


🏰 Plantation optimism, and the bold theory that stolen land would be fine, actually


🧊 Drumlins: ice-age bubble-wrap


☠️ A village literally named “plague grave” 


🍺 Miraculous beer taps, and medieval dairy-based divine protection


⚔️ Dynastic feuds: playground version


🧀 Victorian cheese co-operatives

You'll get massacres, monasteries, plague pits, saints with excellent miracles, and nineteen waypoints that refused to behave. Listen to this and you’ve survived the Fermanagh Mega-Stage — everything else is basically a rest day.

🌊🗺️ More Than Words – Episode 22: West Side Story 🗺️🌊


From British winter trudging to neon-lit Miami smugness, before plunging back into Fermanagh’s lakes, legends, and paperwork-heavy dampness — Stage 22 is what happens when walking logs develop jet lag.


Featuring:


🍺 Liverpool reunions: retirement smugness vs inbox trauma


🌴 Miami Beach: art deco excess, rollerbladers, and fitness via tourism


🏞️ Fermanagh: where water owns the land and lets humans visit


🧺 Kesh: wicker bridges and early-Irish flat-pack engineering

🪨 Boa Island: war goddesses, and the world’s grimmest double act


🏰 Castle Caldwell: defeated not by rebels, but by plants


📜 The Cathach: history’s bloodiest copyright dispute
🍶 Belleek pottery: famine relief turned translucent luxury

It’s folklore, copyright wars, haunted islands, soggy borders, and enough lakes to legally classify as a water feature.

🌬️⚙️ More Than Words – Episode 21: Grill, Interrupted ⚙️🌬️


From beetling mills to barbecue aviation incidents, Stage 21 proves that winter exercise in Britain is mostly about accepting defeat and going indoors.


Featuring:



🪵 Linen being hammered into submission 


🧏 Workers inventing sign language because the machines wouldn’t shut up


🪦 Bronze Age Airbnbs


🐇 The Creggan White Hare: folklore, freedom, and greyhounds with trust issues


🗺️ The Lough Cluster: ten lakes, one map, zero chance of finding the right one


🏎️ Stock-car racing in rural Tyrone


🍺 Omagh’s oldest pub: whiskey, stout, and booking transatlantic passage mid-pint


🌬️ Wind turbines as weather apps


🪨 Lack: a village named after a missing stone, committing fully to the bit


Plus:



🌪️ Storm Claudia


🔥 A barbecue that tried to achieve flight


🏃‍♂️ Gym kilometres that count technically, but not emotionally