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The Call of the Wild
Just like the swallows and other migratory birds, it’s time for us to fly away. After a great summer at home (lots of sunshine, a minor knee op, campervan trips (in a borrowed…
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Copper Coast – Waterford ‘s Treasure
On the August Bank holiday, Spuds. (the campervan that we had borrowed to tour Mayo) was still parked outside our house waiting to be collected. It seemed such a waste not to use…
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The Yellow Odyssey – Mayo by campervan
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel in a campervan? Although we have been long-time campers of the ‘pitch a tent’ variety, we had never toured in a campervan…
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Cycling the Royal Canal
On a grey, drizzly July morning last year, Caoimhín and I drove towards Maynooth. We were on our way to cycle the Royal Canal Greenway, which had opened a few months before in…
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Canary Islands, the Magical Eight
Leaving Ireland on February 2 2022, we had no fixed plans except a vague notion of island hopping around the Canaries for a few months. The Canaries were very much a second, compromise…
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La Graciosa, the Blondest Island
It was one of those stunningly blue mornings with blue sea and blue sky. We waited for the ferry in Ozsola (pronounced Ursula) in Northern Lanzarote with the sun warming our backs and…
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Lanzarote, the Final Leg😎
We were on the final leg of our three month ‘island hop’ around the Canaries Thirty minutes on the ferry brought us from Corralejo in Fuerteventura to Playa Blanca in Lanzarote, our seventh…
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Gran Canaria, Paradise lost and found🤔
We arrived in Gran Canaria on March 16 and our first impressions weren’t good. It was very windy (even by Canarian standards) with a damp drizzle in the air. Our ground floor apartment…