El Hierro is the smallest and most westerly of the Canary Islands – it was once considered the end of the earth (it was the zero meridian before that was moved to Greenwich).…

The February sky was tinged pink and cool as we waited in Waterford for JJ Kavanagh’s bus to take us to Dublin airport….our first visit to any airport since our trip to Ethiopia…

The Guzzler might not have been the oldest car parked outside Ashford Castle in County Mayo – there was an older Jag – but it was certainly the dirtiest. Frank, the hotel valet…

“Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?” Rumi Quote What do you do when you retire during a pandemic and you love to travel? Well, we just…

The last time I posted we were in Split, Croatia, now, a week later, we are home. The wind is screaming around our house in Crooke and bending the trees in the garden…

We spent out last Albanian night in Shkoder, an historic town about 40 minutes from the Montenegro border and although there was incessant rain for most of the time, we really liked the…

The morning was dirty and damp as we crossed the mountains in Northern Greece on our way to the Albanian border on Monday, November 15 – very like the weather on our arrival…

Dragging ourselves away from stunning Hydra wasn’t easy. We waited on the cobble-stoned port for the 7.20am ferry to Piraeus with a soft early-morning light over the water, the smell of bread wafting…

Greetings from jaw-droppingly, beautiful Hydra, a small Greek island and adopted home of Leonard Cohen for many years. Our ferry from Pireaus (2 hours, €30 each one way) sailed in gorgeous sunshine into…