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Journey to Japan✈️✈️
Our journey was longer than expected. We flew Qatar Airlines from Dublin to Doha (Qatar) and onwards to Osaka in Japan but delays leaving Dublin meant that we missed our connecting flight in…
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Tory Island – Timeless and Tantalising❤️
On a sunny July Sunday, we parked our van in Magheroarty in North West Donegal and walked down the pier to the small passenger ferry to take us to Tory Island, the most…
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Old Rail Trail Greenway – Cycling in the Midlands
The Midlands is an area of Ireland that is seldom a destination in itself, usually it’s just a region to pass through on the way to somewhere more exciting. But the heart of…
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Colombia: Highlights❤️
Now that we are back home, it’s time to reflect on our Colombian odyssey and our three months of backpacking around this jaw-droppingly beautiful country. Colombia is a very large country, almost 17…
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Colombia – Ruins, Rivers and Desert Rain🌵
Sometimes it’s an adventure just getting to a destination. Popayan, with its many churches and white buildings, was full of religious visitors for the many Pascal processions and Easter ceremonies but we left…
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Colombia – Coffee, Clouds and Condors
If you like to wake up and smell the coffee, then the colourful little Colombian town of Salento set amid green Andean mountains and coffee plantations may be your dream destination. Colombia has…
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Colombia – Tragedy and Transformation
Medellin was the most fascinating and interesting city we visited in Colombia. It is also probably the most well-known Colombian city, famous for all the wrong reasons because of the popular Netflix series,…
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Colombia- Cartagena and Beyond🏖️
Cartagena on the Caribbean coast is the fifth largest city in Colombia with a population of two million. It is also the most touristy and considered the most expensive to visit. We had…
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Colombia – Touring the Desert
La Guajira is a remote area in the extreme north-east of Colombia, bordered by the Caribbean Sea on one side and Venezuela on the other. It is famous for its surreal desert landscapes,…
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Colombia – Looking for Paradise
Palomino is a small town on the Colombian Caribbean coast, nestled between two rivers, Rio Palomino and the Rio Salvador. Both rivers flow from the Sierra Nevada mountains to the sea on both…