Hello You 76: 'How bad can it be?'

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Hello You 76: 'How bad can it be?'

The peregrinations of Patrick Lappin

Jim Hawkins

Dec 13, 2024

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Lots of people leave Shropshire and then come back, either straight away or eventually. Patrick Lappin’s route back to the county of his birth took in Edinburgh, Norwich and the stand-up circuit in London … but then, despite being afraid of flying and not a natural-born traveller, he found himself living in Mexico, Albania, Bulgaria, and for a truly terrifying few days, Grenada.

Enjoy the stories of a (very) Englishman abroad in this episode of Hello You.

Crucial life lesson within: ‘Embrace being stupid’.

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