Entries by Robert Barker

London UK Part 2

Greetings From London…Again! I’m back in London! This time around I stayed with a BJJ Globetrotter rather than a hostel, although I did stay at a hostel the first few nights, but more on that later. It was an uneventful train down to London, I checked into the hostel then I was off to my […]

Stockton UK

Greetings From Stockton UK! I got into Stockton easy enough, it was only a short train ride down from Edinburgh. It was probably my shortest trip in the UK. Stockton is a small town, I don’t know if it’s smaller than Wigan but there’s not a lot going on in this town. That’s ok though, […]

Dublin & Belfast

Greetings From Dublin Ireland and Belfast Northern Ireland! I made it to Ireland! But not without an adventure to get to the airport first. When I first looked at getting to the airport from Wigan, where I was staying for the weekend, everything seemed ok. But when I looked again while in Wigan planning my […]

Blackpool and Wigan UK

Greetings From Blackpool and Wigan England UK   After a nice bus trip up from London, and totally skipping Manchester (sorry!) I made it to Blackpool, where I realized on the flight over to London is where Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children takes place, which had me wondering if I was going to run […]

Training report: Wave BJJ (London)

Greetings from London England! I made it! I’m actually in London England! Although I just spent the last 4 months traveling across Canada I really feel like my journey has only now just begun. In a way it has, this is first time being in Europe where I have no old friends or family members […]

St. John’s Newfoundland

Greetings From St. John’s Newfoundland! After an early morning check out and taxi ride I was on my way to the last stop in the Canadian Odyssey: St john’s Newfoundland. This stop had several reasons it was special to me, not only was it the last stop in Canada and I’d be seeing friends I […]

Halifax & Sydney Nova Scotia Canada

This is my second last Canadian post.  A lot went on and there’s a lot of pictures and a few videos in this post, so it might long.   Greetings From Halifax and Sydney Nova Scotia Canada! Wow, what a whirlwind of a week that was! After dealing with the snow in Fredericton and Moncton […]

Fredericton and Moncton New Brunswick Canada

Greetings from Fredericton New Brunswick Canada…kind of… I made it to Fredericton easy enough, there were a few bus transfers over the night and I didn’t get much sleep but I still made it to the destination on time and without any real problems, which is the important part. Originally when I booked the tickets […]

Quebec city, Quebec, Canada

Greetings from Quebec City Quebec Canada! Although This trip from Montreal to Quebec City was uneventful, it was my first time taking a train, so at the risk of sounding really boring, I was excited to travel up to Quebec city this way! Crossing a train bridge on the way up to Quebec City, pretty […]

Blogging on Globetrotters!

My first blog post for BJJ Globetrotters!Hello everyone! Let’s start this first blog off with information about myself. I’m a 4th stripe blue belt from Canada and I love martial arts. I have been blogging on my own for a while now, talking about all things jiu-jitsu while I researched, planned, and then began my mission […]