🌿 More Than Words – Episode 31: The Long And Winding Road 🌿
From Alpine sporting delusions to quiet Cheshire villages casually hiding Vikings, ghosts, and one extremely questionable medieval wedding — Stage 31 confirms that England’s countryside has been weird for a very long time.
Featuring:
🎿 Skiing: the traditional British activity of falling over abroad
🥌 Curling: sweeping ice while pretending this is normal behaviour
🎸 Liverpool: ships, songs, and a modest global cultural footprint
🧼 Port Sunlight: Victorian soap money accidentally inventing urban planning
⚔️ Brunanburh: the battle that may have created England (location still TBD)
✈️ Hooton: aristocrats, RAF pilots, and eventually Vauxhall Astras
📜 Backford: chained Bibles and a three-year-old groom bribed with fruit
⛪ Tilstone Fearnall: rotating a church so one admiral liked the view
👻 Duddon: headless housekeeper still haunting the customer service desk
🐎 Calveley: medieval knight, massive horses, minimal follow-up questions
It’s travel with Viking admin, soap-baron philanthropy, Civil War ghosts, battlefield guesswork, and several centuries of Britain quietly making very odd decisions.

🌊 More Than Words – Episode 30: Keepin’ It Rhyl 🌊
From Victorian seaside optimism to modern coastal existentialism, Episode 30 drifts down the North Wales coast before sidling into England like the ferry timetable absolutely meant to do that.
Featuring:
🐐 Llandudno goats: lockdown hedge-eating anarchists with global fame
🚋 Great Orme Tramway: Victorian engineering that refuses to die
🐅 Welsh Mountain Zoo: exotic animals reconsidering life choices in North Wales weather
🏰 Gwrych Castle: built for ghosts, got Ant & Dec instead
🌊 Towyn: when the Irish Sea popped round unannounced
🎢 Rhyl: Britain’s seaside Time Lord
🧱 Offa’s Dyke: history’s longest passive-aggressive garden fence
🐿️ Formby red squirrels: Britain’s fluffiest Cold War
It’s travel with Victorian resorts, celebrity castles, catastrophic seaside economics, and wildlife that absolutely did not consent to the North Wales microclimate.

🌊 More Than Words – Episode 29: In Deep Water 🌊
From Proclaimers promises to full maritime delusion, Episode 29 hits 1,000 miles — then spends an entire week floating about pretending squinting at coastlines counts as visiting them.
Featuring:
🎶 1,000 mile Proclaimer Promise: completed it mate
🚢 Irish Sea: geography as optimism
🚂 Sodor: fictional island, talking trains, Beatle narrator
⛏️ Millom: mining under the sea because Victorians
🛳️ Barrow: “Sorry, can’t chat, building nuclear deterrents.”
🐟 Fleetwood: Cod Wars, Iceland 1 – Britain 0
🎡 Blackpool: “What if we put the elephants UNDER the tower?”
🌉 Anglesey: Druids, bridges, and cows relieved to avoid swimming
🐀 Puffin Island: Formerly.
It’s travel with milestone maths, nuclear submarines, fictional railways, Viking aftercare, and aggressive binocular optimism. Over halfway. Mildly unhinged. Entirely afloat.