I have 3 younger brothers - Barry, Alan and Nick. Nick’s the youngest, and like so many young pups these days, he’s extremely ambitious and impulsive.

When it comes to seeing an idea through, Nick would be the first to admit that his ambition and impulsiveness can be a very bad combination. Many of his great ideas fall to the wayside when his next great endeavour calls. But when it comes to spur of the moment travel arrangements, this heady combination of ambition and impulse has taken Nick to countless wonderful places around the world - Australia, Paris, Gibraltar, Milan, Dublin, Prague, Krakow to name a few.

“We’re only travelling so we can have a few bloody pictures in our house.” Nick will say with a grin, ‘we’ being himself and his girlfriend Maraid. They don’t acutally have a house yet, which I guess is the reason why they’ve started up their first blog together over at nickandmaraid.blogspot.com.

Its purpose is to document their travels and keep in touch with friends and family when they’re overseas. Based on the places they already been to and the things they’ve gotten up to on their travels, this should be a blog worth reading, that is, if you can stomach that little jealous daemon you’ll experience as you read.