Video releases from Ordinary Bloke

This is a great 3 star adults only all-inclusive hotel which is situated about 2 miles south of Port d'Alcúdia 200 yards from the beach. In my video guide, I show you the hotel and the grand lake nearby plus a few shots from the old town of Alcúdia.

I've been fascinated by magic since I was a small boy, but it has only been in the last 3 years that I have begun to study and practise the art myself. It helps to video my attempts so that I can look at them critically from an observer's perspective. It's also great to be able to show the videos to fellow magicians to get gratefully received constructive criticism. I began to increase the number that I have recorded, so it seemed better that I should put them into their own separate channel - Ordinary Bloke Magic. Here are the ones currently available: 51 Fat Chances Spin Doctor Power of Poker Coin Matrix 8 Card Brainwave Super Closer Deja Vu Vu Find the Other Half Petal to the Metal Smack in the face One Card One Box

Oxford is a unique city, a mixture of the ancient university and the modern. On our visit there in 2018, we snapped a few of the usual iconic buildings and also some off the beaten track. The city is well worth a visit, but expect: Lots of tourists everywhere you go. Entry fees for just about every building, college, museum etc.

During April 2018, we ticked off another item in our bucket list by visiting Venice. I'd tried very hard not to listen to all the people who raved about it saying how fantastic it was. Instead I concentrated on all the negatives I could find: ridiculously early start (3:30am) to get to the airport; and ridiculously late arrival back home (1:00am). I really didn't want the holiday to fail to live up to my expectations. I needn't have bothered, Venice was wonderful. A unique city that's fascinating to explore. We walked miles every day, ate well and drank... er... well. I can thoroughly recommend this to anyone who hasn't been. Avoid the summer months and bear in mind that children may well find it boring. If they're teenagers, they probably find most things boring to be honest. Anyway, here's the video:

I love flowers, they make me feel good inside. As spring seemed to be taking forever to arrive, I thought I'd trawl through my photographs of flowers over the last decade and put together a little video. Here it is:

It's a few years ago that I went to the Dominican Republic and stayed at the Gran Ventana complex in the northern resort of Playa Dorada. I did a quick tour with my flip camera and posted this video on my other site. For consistency's sake (and because the video is still being viewed regularly), I decided to bring it under the 'Ordinary Bloke' umbrella. So here it is...

Some years ago now, I decided to create a video about the resort we were staying in Corfu. So, one morning, I got up early and took my flip camera for a walk, trying to capture the essence of the hotel. When I got back home, I put the clips together and added a few captions and a bit of music. It's not the best video I've ever made, but it hit 43,000 views a short while ago. However, because it's more appropriately positioned in my Ordinary Bloke channel rather than my original channel, I have now published it there. Got to start from 0 views though. Ah well!

I've loved France ever since I went in 1969, sleeping rough and busking for my keep. I went once more whilst at university, once in the 70s and twice in the 80s with wife and daughter (but this time staying with Keycamp rather than sleeping on beaches). Roll the calendar forward to the noughties and I went with Eurocamp three times. This video is a record of one of those trips to five different sites over a period of two weeks.

We have visited Sharm El-Sheikh twice. The first time right at the north end of the resort, but the second time right in the middle - Shark's Bay. This was a reasonably priced hotel with it's own jetty which took you to the coral shelf. This is a video I made of the hotel: