🌊 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.

🏍️ More Than Words – Episode 28: Man, Overboard 🏍️
From thundersnow skepticism to toilet reviews, because the Isle of Man’s tourism strategy is apparently “motorcycles at 200mph, Victorian waterwheels, and suspiciously clean public loos.”
Featuring:
⚡ Thundersnow: didn’t exist in my day, fight me
🏴‍☠️ St Maughold: Irish pirate → hermit → bishop
🎯 TT races: 200mph through front gardens, neurosurgeon-level precision
🛞 Lady Isabella Wheel: still turning 170 years later
🚽 Maughold toilets: achieving TripAdvisor acclaim unavailable to most saints
🐴 Douglas horse trams: overtaking modern traffic since 1876
🍟 Chips, cheese & gravy: “the national dish of the Manx people,” per one confident chippy owner
🦘 Kerroogaroo: budget kangaroo knock-off you can probably order from Temu
It’s virtual travel with Old Git weather complaints, shape-shifting water-horses, 0.12 Manx Gaelic swearers, and public conveniences worthy of UNESCO status.