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.

🔥 More Than Words – Stage 17: Burns, Baby, Burns 🔥

From saints who sound like cough syrup to Robert Burns nearly becoming Jamaica’s HR nightmare, because Ayrshire’s tourism strategy is apparently “poets, feuds, golf courses, and the occasional Russian warship rusting offshore.

Featuring:

😷 St Quivox: the parish that sounds like medicine you’d take for chest congestion

📜 Robert Burns: rebel poet, excise officer, and part‑time population boom in Ayrshire

🔪 Nether Auchendrane murders: the Sopranos, but with more kilts and fewer cannoli

🏰 Maybole Castle: aristocrats gossiping like Real Housewives of Ayrshire

🍷 Kirkoswald smugglers: brandy, tobacco, and Burns’ drinking buddies immortalised in verse

🏌️ Turnberry: Janey Godley’s own country

📉 Downhill: the hamlet that named itself after your mood on a Monday

🧙 Girvan witches: puffins, whisky, folk festivals… and a brief detour into witch trials

⚓ Lendalfoot: heiresses shoved off cliffs, and a Russian cruiser that gave up

It’s travel with murderous Kennedys, Burns‑mania, aristocratic scandals, puffins, and a Russian warship that ended its career by sulking in an Ayrshire bay. Equal parts poetic, surreal, and suspiciously damp.

🏌️ More Than Words – Episode 16: Clyde and Joy 🏌️

From collapsing car plants to Elvis at Prestwick, because Ayrshire’s tourism strategy is apparently “industrial ruin, golf courses, and a suspicious amount of brandy.”

Featuring: 


🚗 Linwood’s Imp: Hillman no more


🏭 Johnstone’s supermarket museum: hummus with history


🪑 Beith’s furniture empire: from mahogany to missile silos


🥃 Barkip: illicit drinking, fiddles, and the constable keeping time with his boot

🏹 Kilwinning archers: 540 years of shooting wooden birds off clock towers

🤴 Eglinton jousting tournament: the Fyre Festival of medieval chivalry

🏌️ Royal Troon’s Postage Stamp hole: small, vicious, and capable of humiliating Tiger Woods in under 60 seconds

🎸 Prestwick Airport: Elvis touched down for 20 minutes, and Ayrshire built a shrine anyway

It’s collapsing car plants, medieval jousts in the rain, golf courses that bite, and Elvis merch stands. Equal parts scenic, surreal, and suspiciously soggy.

🛳️ More Than Words – Stage 15: Bonnie and Clyde 🛳️

From Viking boat‑hauling to wallabies in the Highlands, because Loch Lomond’s tourism strategy is apparently “confuse everyone, maximise revenue.”

Featuring:

🛶 Vikings dragging longships

💑 Honeymoon Island: medieval IKEA compatibility test

🦘 Wild wallabies … in Scotland

⛪️ Saints getting demoted

🎨 Turkey red dyeing: the Colonel’s secret recipe

📚 Tobias Smollett: 70‑foot monument, zero modern readers

⚓️ Clydebank: where Queen Mary launched the Queen Mary

✈️ Glaswegians foiling terrorists attacks

It’s travel podcasting with longships, marsupials, industrial collapse, and the Ryder Cup somehow making an appearance. Equal parts scenic, surreal, and shipyard tragedy.

⛵️More Than Words – Stage 14: It’s A Hard Loch Life⛵️

Because nothing says “Highland adventure” like failed gold rushes, haunted pubs, and goats still holding grudges from the 18th century.

Featuring:

⚔️ Scotland’s most scenic lost‑property office

🏰Achallader Castle: Highland piñata

💀True Detective: Glen Orchy (pilot)

💰 Tyndrum’s gold saga: 300 years of optimism, spoiler — the rocks won

🚉 Towns with two railway stations, because duplication = progress

🛁 Rob Roy’s outdoor shower

👻 The Drovers Inn: taxidermy greatest‑hits album, with bonus ghosts

💥 Cromwell’s redecorating tips

It’s bogs, ballads, and a suspicious number of railway stations — equal parts folklore, failed enterprise, and surreal comedy.

🏔️ More Than Words - Episode 13: Ridge Magnets 🏔️

Because nothing says “scenic route” like collecting three Ballachulishes, avoiding murderous water horses, and accidentally stumbling into a Red Wedding origin story.

Featuring:

💀 The Glencoe Massacre: Airbnb of Annihilation (0 stars, would not recommend)

🚢 A ferry so vital its breakdown qualifies as a local apocalypse

🎬 Harry Potter waterfalls & Monty Python gorges

👯 Three Sisters (some assembly required)

😈 The Devil’s Staircase: hell of a climb, literally

🗺️ Two villages that are definitely the same place (Google Maps disagrees)

🐴 Loch Linnhe’s water horse: worst pony-trekking franchise ever

It’s travel with geological grandeur — equal parts stunning vistas, historical carnage, and cartographic chaos.