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The Dole Drifter

Rambles about life, travel, mental health, politics and whatever random shit I think about at 10 am on Sunday morning.

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How I became an interpreter for a Japanese octogenarian on a flight from Tokyo to Colombo, despite not speaking Japanese.

No matter how hard you try, there are just some jobs you can't blag your way into. One of them, as I found out earlier today, is an interpreter.

It's not like pulling pints or cold calling someone to flog insurance. Interpreting is hard, s...

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Seems like everyone wants to be famous these days, but do we really just want to be seen?

I wrote a LinkedIn post the other day, sharing my latest Substack piece on my search for a home. I finished with “read, share, like, comment, subscribe, etc., etc. I want to be famous.”

I was taking the piss about wanting to be famous, of...

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I spent years searching for the 'perfect' place to live. It turned out my problem wasn't geographical.

“You can search and search all your life, but sometimes you need to realise when you’ve arrived.” A wise catamaran captain once told me when I asked him how he wound up living in Saint Vincent. As someone with itchy feet, it’s a quote that...

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How travel became my crutch, cure and reset button.

Around eight years ago, I lost someone who I’d looked up to my entire life. An intelligent, kind and gentle soul that could read my mood like it was a Beano mag. That man was my grandad.

I remember once, when I was in my teens, he took me...

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I dropped my phone in a canal. It was the best day I've had in donkey's years.

All it took for me to stop doom-scrolling was to drop my phone into a canal.

Of course, you don’t have to go to such drastic lengths (narrowboats aren’t cheap). You could do these things with your device instead:

  • Place it in a vice an...
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