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Electric Travels: Highs and Lows
The night before we left home for our two-month roadtrip from Ireland to Morocco in our completely-electric van, I had a dream -more a nightmare – that camels were towing us through the…
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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: From the Mountains to the Sea
Our washing danced in the breeze on the clothes-line strung up between two olive trees in the rustic campsite in the Rif Mountains in Morocco. The figs had been harvested, and so had…
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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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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: Then and Now
Inhaling clear air, we felt slightly dizzy from the altitude at 3100m and the breathtaking scenery of pine-clad forests. The distant tinkling of bells, worn around the necks of goats and sheep, drifted…
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Japan: Highs and Lows
Now that we are back home from our six-week trip in a campervan around fascinating Japan, it’s time to reflect on our experience. We flew into and out of Osaka and in between travelled…
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Japan: Holy Mountains and Glorious Gorges
Our visit to Fukuoka didn’t start well. The traffic was horrendous as we made our way into the city from Nagasaki. Fukuoka is the largest city in Kyushu (one of the main four…
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Japan: War and Peace
In my last post, I said that we were hoping to leave Amami Island, a small island in the East China Sea a few days early because there was a risk of a…