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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…
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La Palma, the Island of Fire and Starlight⭐
La Palma in the Canaries is known as Isla Bonita – the Beautiful Island – and as soon as we stepped off the ferry from La Gomera into Santa Cruz de la Palma,…
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La Gomera, the Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
La Gomera is certainly the place to visit if you like hiking – its a walkers paradise. It is very easy to get there from Tenerife – there are at least 5 ferries…
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El Hierro, the Island at the end of the World
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).…
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Tenerife – Electric Dreams!
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…
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A Little Luxury – Ashford Castle
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…
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Road Trip 2021 – Ireland to Greece and Back.
“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…
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Driving Home for Christmas
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…
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Montenegro and Beyond (Borders)
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…