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Chapter Three - A Look into the Future
11/10/2023
Dear Diary, as I write about my past, I realise that I need to be communicating with this diary here in the present day also. Although I guess to anyone reading my diary, the future.
I've done it, I've booked my next trip to Ukraine. I'll be...
Chapter Two - Lviv
07/01/2023
As we approached the Polish/Ukrainian border, I saw lorries lined up for what seemed like a mile, in another lanes many cars were also lined up, all awaiting to get into Ukraine. Thankfully for us, using public transport meant we didn't have to wait in such long...
Chapter One - Krakow
05/01/2023
As I disembarked my evening flight in Krakow, Poland. The sharp winter air hit me full in the face, I proceeded to make my way into the airport arrivals terminal to clear customs and immigration.
After I cleared customs and immigration, I proceeded to head to...
Introduction
The cold evening winter air embraced me upon my arrival in Krakow, I knew in two days that I would be taking my first trip to Lviv in Ukraine. I didn't realise at the time just how important this solo journey would be. No idea of the amazing people I would meet in the months too...
23/11/2021
I'm pretty excited today – I'm heading from Urmston on the train to Liverpool Lime Street station. I'll be meeting my dad to watch Bradford City play away to Tranmere Rovers today, it's a birthday treat from dad, and I've always wanted to see Prenton Park, home of Tranmere Rovers...
08/11/2021
I’m currently sitting here looking at another bus hijacking in Belfast on the news. In Northern Ireland (North of Ireland), the Loyalist Communities Council, a voice of the British Paramilitaries (the Ulster Defence Association and the Ulster Volunteer Force), has pretty much stopped...
30/09/2021
After spending a couple of days back in Manchester, I was ready to stretch my legs again. I feel like my mind is so far into outer space now, floating beyond the stars that I'm constantly drifting around. I've lost my spaceship, and I can't find my way back to where I belong.
I...
17/09/2021
As the plane is landing here back in Manchester, I think to myself – it's probably best to put in a diary entry that sort of explains exactly what is happening here in the background. I won't lie – there is some stuff I just have to omit from my diary. I mean, a diary is what we put...
10/09/2021
So the past week it's become obvious that the childcare arrangement with me and my ex partner just isn't going to work out long term. The children cannot settle into the routine so we've decided between us she'll become a full time Mother and I'll be flying to Belfast more...
05/09/2021
I got off the tram in East Didsbury, the weather was warm, it was nice. I was excited to see an old friend.
I got off the tram and I called Victoria and I couldn't see her as I exited the station, unbeknownst to me I had take the exit on the opposite side ahaha. I walked up and we...