"Happy Wanderings" stephenjl's Profile

HAIL TO ALL...This is the rather basic but [hopefully and i say that with great deal of optimism!] useful web page regarding my travels. Sadly due to technological incompetence there isnt much in the way of photography in these pages so i will have to do my best to enlighten you with words!

I have just started new job in day care centre at Mosslands in Warrington/Cheshire so a big oi oi to WBC for being so nice and giving me this opportunity to finally make something of my career! :-)

My prime interests are extreme music, literature, travel, art, culture and history. I also am afan of Everton FC and numerous football teams around Europe and also like watching rugby league and basketball and ice hockey on tv.

The photo is me and my charming girlfriend Joanna from Wroclaw, PL.

KOCHAM CIE BARDZO! DZIEKUJE WSZYSTKICHO! XXXXX

by the way as i decided to use pic of me and jo i havent many pics of me on my own so i got one of our dog sooty!

Uptil now I have been fortunate enough to have visited Prague where i stayed at CZU Suchdol with Joanna.

I have been to following places in no particular order:

Wroclaw, Berlin/Hamburg, Sofia/Plovdiv/Nessebur/Varna/Veliko Tarnovo, Salonika/Athens/Grevena/ Ioannina, Ios Island, Amsterdam/Utrecht/Zeist/Tilburg, Stockholm/Helsinki/Vasteras/Norrkoping/Boden/Jokkmokk, Faro/Silves, Nice/Cannes/ Biarritz/Besancon/La Rochelle, Seville/Pamplona/San Sebastian, Orlando plus numerous places in England, Wales & Scotland.

Some places I'd most like to go but haven't got round to yet..

more of Poland [Krakow, Zakopane, Sopot, Turun, Wolin Island, Poznan] , Norway, Iceland, more of Finland, Russia, Japan, NZ, Egypt,, Ireland [as in mountains, loughs, forests, wild coastlines where many a ship did flounder, the real wilderness and my mission to find Craggy Island - Home of Father Ted!, Canada, Mexico, anywhere really lol

my motivations are generally cultural, ancient places, scenes of battles and so on,i kinda like that thing you know :-)

Whilst travelling to places I like to either have company of people or music and literature material

Current playlist:
versus the world - AMON AMARTH
some girls wander by mistake - SISTERS OF MERCY
the very best of - NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS
areasons to be cheerful - IAN DURY & THE BLOCKHEADS

mags;
Terrorizer/Chaotic Order

Books:
biographies, history, travel guides/phrase books
current: one flew over the cuckoos nest by ken kelsey
polish in 4 weeks

DEDICATIONS: Big OI TO...

Nick Cat/Kelly, Wes/Claire, Mosslands staff/WBC, Heathercroft staff, Martin/Kate, Will,
Kenan/Mary, Pete/Vicky/Ethan
Kaela in Boston, Jon in Sheffield [best of luck to the Owls next year!]
Mat in Poland

Also my lovely family in warrington and beyond [Sheffield, Kent, Stowmarket [sister Becky & Graeme]
Peak District, Stockport area
Sally/Neil, Brad Fulton, , Simon Alexander, Alex Stoyanov & Ultras Loko, Melissa Boys [Melissa 69 w Pa£aczyk Wroclaw & rodzina Jankowski i wszystkich w Uni. Wroclaw faculty of law who know Jo!]

Thats yer lot 4 now, laters! :-)

Well bein' as I am the editor and creator of this ere page I will state a few things that I like when I'm not on my travels - , you know favourite food, films etc just for curiosities sake!

Place to go:
Manchester: Printworks, Arndale, Coliseum/Aflecks Palace, Piccadilly Records, Deansgate
Warrington: museum, Royal Bombay curry house, Javed curry house
Cheshire Oaks shops/cafes and restaurants,
Nantwich town centre & local area esp Snugburys ice cream!
Liverpool: Albert Dock, Anglican & RC cathedrals, city centre, Caven, Goodison Park

munch: curry, pasta, trad. english cooking, steak puddings, international cuisine

bevvies: becks, czech beer, boddingtons, port, southern comfort, some vodka, coffee [tak, kawa i baileys i mufinka mmm]

tv progs: simpsons, south park, blackadder, red dwarf, monty python, anything with ronnie barker, history/nature dcumentaries

films: terminator 2, event horizon, scum, carry on films, monty python, hammer horror, madness of king george, das boot

actor: rowan atkinson [blackadder], john cleese, ade edmondson, rik mayall you get idea..

best airline: upto now czech airline
worse: easy jet and other mickey mouse budget airlines