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Japan: Chasing the Dream (aka Running from the Rain)
We are in the terminal building standing in a queue to buy tickets for the ferry to Beppu in Kyushu when several phones, including Caoimhin’s, start making strange sounds simultaneously. It’s an emergency…
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Journey to Japan✈️✈️
Our journey was longer than expected. We flew Qatar Airlines from Dublin to Doha (Qatar) and onwards to Osaka in Japan but delays leaving Dublin meant that we missed our connecting flight in…
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Colombia – Coffee, Clouds and Condors
If you like to wake up and smell the coffee, then the colourful little Colombian town of Salento set amid green Andean mountains and coffee plantations may be your dream destination. Colombia has…
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Colombia – Tragedy and Transformation
Medellin was the most fascinating and interesting city we visited in Colombia. It is also probably the most well-known Colombian city, famous for all the wrong reasons because of the popular Netflix series,…
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Camino del Faro- The Lighthouse Way
Mention the words ‘Camino’ and ‘Spain’ in the same sentence and most people will think about the Camino de Santiago, the incredibly popular pilgrimage way of St James. But there are others far…
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Philippines- The Lost Week
There’s a reason why some places are so popular. The Philippines is so astonishingly beautiful that we had almost become jaded to beauty, but our first glimpse of the Bacuit Archipelago still managed…
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Moving in
It was time to move inland – it was already August 27 – and make our way to the other side of Spain to Catalonia where we had rented a holiday house with…