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Norwegian Joy Cartagena, Colombia 2025 Wanting to be fresh for my 6 am flight for Guatamala City via Chicago and knowing I had to check in by 4.30 am and therefore be up at 3 am to drive to Albany airport. I went to bed at 9 pm. Just as I am about to get under the covers, my phone pings with an email, for some reason I look and see it is from Jennifer, the senior show and experience manager onboard the Norwegian Joy, which all being well I am joining tomorrow afternoon. Jenni

Pepe May 2025 Photo by Dave Pickens Pepe Mime, in my opinion the best follow clown ever, died this September, after a lifetime of alcoholism and a brief battle with liver cancer. I'm guessing he was in his early sixties. My first memories of Pepe were back in 1987 near the Pompidou Centre, Paris. I remember a large crowd and at the centre of it a small man in a red hat. I didn't speak to him then, indeed I was just passing by, and I only stopped for a moment, but I clearly re

It's not a competition! If you read my last blog, it is kind of obvious why I posted this picture first! Having slept the entire flight from Munich to New York City, I collected my suitcase and headed for my car, conveniently parked in the long term parking at JFK. It was hot, and I had a 20-hour drive ahead of me, which I was going to do over three days (what did you think). I had planned on not going too far the first night, but I hadn't planned on the traffic getting out o

Gromwy and Richard underneath their massive poster On the final night of the Spektakel Landshut festival, indeed the early hours of the next morning, my friends Richard Garaghty and Gromwy Thom asked me to take a picture of them with their poster behind them. "But there are posters of you all over town!" I exclaimed. "Yes, but apparently this one is really big!" One of them replied. Due to this posters' location which was facing away from the city centre, none of us had seen

With the Ed Larkin Contra Dancers If J R R Tolkein's Shire is anywhere, it is in Vermont. Tunbridge World's Fair has a backstory, the Ed...

Eric the Viking When I first set out for Key West (January 2001) I passed by the Renaissance Fair at Marathon airport on my way up the...

I have been a resident of Vermont since 5th July 2010. I remember it took us 3 days to drive up from Key West in a large yellow Penske...

Every fair is different, and the Kentucky State Fairs uniqueness is that it is mostly inside and air-conditioned! This is my second visit...

Yes, Okay, I haven’t blogged for a while now. I have been at home for some of this time, and I am glad to say that completely absorbs me!...

Bell Wagon, Circus World, Baraboo, Wisconsin I had a couple of days off between the excitement of Sac City and my start at the Wisconsin...

The Big Attraction, Sac City, Iowa. Iowa has an abundance of fields! Agriculture is massive in this heartland state! And so I found...

Green Mountains Here's the view just down the dirt road from my accommodation. Vermont is beautiful, especially in the summer, and...

The contrast between Glastonbury Festival and the Red River Fair is pretty much as wide as the Atlantic Ocean I crossed a week ago today,...

Pavement Stage Glastonbury I first went to Glastonbury Festival in 1985 when I was just seventeen, it blew my mind then and has done...

https://beacheventsvb.com/event/live-on-atlantic-nightly-entertainment-23/ The picture above was taken the first year I ever performed...

Magic & Shenanigans:a guided tour festival . And I was a tour guide! Last weekend, I had the pleasure of being a comedy tour guide for...

Cigar box and Wine glass balance Switzerland is beautiful, the scenery is incredible with the mountains and the lakes, the food and drink...

1989 Barney Bardsley & Guy Collins After my glorious return to Newbury from France in the winter of 1987, where I had discovered street...

Easter in London is a great time for performing at Covent Garden Market, it's neither too hot, nor too cold, it rains infrequently and...

Who's that man? Ahoy there! Here I am on the Norwegian Pearl, currently somewhere between Curaçao and St Kitts on the Caribbean Sea. It's...