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…

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…

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…

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…

Fuerteventura where life's a beach⛱