More Than Words – Stage 20: Show Me The Moneys 💷🏌️

From prize money to place names that sound like failed hedge funds, Stage 20 goes inland — and immediately trips over its own wallet.

Featuring:

🏌️ Nearest-the-Pin finals: unintended cardio and The Fourth Shank Redemption

📍 Ballymena: Paisley, Neeson, and a particular set of mills

🍺 Whitesides Corner: crossroads and cross drinkers

🏉 Moneyglass: sporting talent factory, and a burning Winterfell

🗺️ Toome / Toomebridge: one village, two names, thousands of confused eels

🐟 Lough Neagh: giant legends, algae soup, and an aristocrat landlord

📚 Castledawson: million dollar frogspawn

🌳 Moneymore: hedge funds funds hedges

🦠 Typhoid Mary — cooking with consequences

It’s travel with golf-induced wheezing, inland Northern Ireland, failed uprisings, burning TV sets, haunted mansions, and a brain that absolutely cannot be trusted.

⛴️ More Than Words – Episode 19: Ferry Tales ⛴️

From radioactive seabeds to lighthouse love stories, because Northern Ireland’s tourism strategy is apparently “ferries, folklore, and a power station that photobombs every coastal panorama.”

Featuring:

💣 Beaufort’s Dyke: Britain’s least reassuring lost‑property office

💡 East Maidens Lighthouse: Victorian Tinder

🏖️ Browns Bay: photographs like the Riviera, swims like an ice bath

⚡ Ballylumford Power Station: Northern Ireland’s caffeine machine

🪨 Ballylumford Dolmen: the world’s oldest patio set

🏰 Kilwaughter Castle: collapsing with gothic enthusiasm

🔋 The Battery: hilltop branding exercise

It’s travel writing with radioactive trenches, semaphore courtships, seaside hypothermia, and castles collapsing photogenically. Equal parts historic, surreal, and suspiciously queue‑shaped.

🍖 More Than Words – Episode 18: Meat the Parents 🍖

From cannibal caves to ferry ports, because Scotland’s tourism strategy is apparently “folklore, falcons, and ferries that may or may not topple your lorry.”

Featuring:

🦴 Scotland’s answer to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but with more brine and fewer chainsaws

🐦 Pigeon‑infested smuggler’s hideouts desperately trying not to be mistaken for the cannibal cave next door

🥖 Ballantrae: once smugglers with cutlasses, now sourdough with smugness

💨 Glen App Wind Farm: finally invoicing the wind for centuries of inconvenience

⚓ Cairnryan: WWII backup port and U‑boat dumping ground

🦪 Loch Ryan oysters: the Simon Cowell of shellfish

💡 The Stevenson family business model = build tall stone things, add light, send invoice

It’s travel writing with cannibal propaganda, smugglers turned foodies, castles that cosplay as fortresses, and ferries that double as disaster films. Equal parts brutal, beautiful, and briny.