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Electric Travels: A Pause (paws) in Spain.
Most days, the air was crisp and clear…except when the locals burnt their mounds of tree clipping , wafting plumes of smoke into the air. The sky was a blinding blue and we…
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Electric Roadtrip: The Charging Saga
Leaving our camping cocoon in Tangier was hard but it had to be done. Waving goodbye to Said, the manager, we headed off in search of EV chargers, making a minor detour to…
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Electric Travels: Onwards to Morocco
When I left you last, we were waiting to enter the Picasso Museum in Malaga. Picasso was truly a genius, could turn his hand at anything from pottery to sculpture to iron works…
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Electric Travels: Into the Sun
The days flew by, sun-drowsy, as we made our way south through Spain. After leaving Salamanca, where we were dazzled by the town’s beauty, not just in the famed main plaza, regarded as…
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Electric Road Trip: The Journey Begins
The night before we left home for our nine-week roadtrip from Ireland to Morocco in our all-electric van, I dreamt that camels were towing us through the desert because we had run out…
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Campervanning in North Mayo: A Scenic Adventure
It was a week to remember, a week in late August, spent campervanning around Mayo, a week of spectacular walking on stunning coastal paths, pristine white-sand beaches, lonely bogs and remote mountains and…
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A Tale of Two Islands, Sherkin and Cape Clear
There’s something appealing about visiting islands. Maybe it’s the isolation, the idea of ‘getting away from it all’, the rugged beauty of most islands or the desire to experience a simpler rhythm of…
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Mexico: Highlights
Mexico is beautiful, an enormous country (about 23 times the size of Ireland) with something to enchant every visitor – palm-fringed beaches, red-sand deserts, lush jungles, mountain ranges, coastlines along the turquoise Caribbean…
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Mexico….Ruins and Ruinous Roads
The first rain came in a violent downpour just after Ireland had beaten Scotland in the rugby match which we watched on the laptop in our little apartment in Bacalar, a little town…
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Beyond Bogota…the roads less travelled.
Leaving Bogota, we headed for the hills – literally. Bogota is a huge city, the Uber taking us from the historic district of Candelaria drove nineteen kilometres in relatively heavy traffic to the…