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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…
