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    Japan: Chasing the Dream (aka Running from the Rain)

    mari.noonan@gmail.com / October 27, 2024 / 5 Comments

    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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  • Asia,  Travel

    Journey to Japan✈️✈️

    mari.noonan@gmail.com / October 9, 2024 / 12 Comments

    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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  • South America,  Travel

    Colombia – Coffee, Clouds and Condors

    mari.noonan@gmail.com / March 27, 2024 / 5 Comments

    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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  • South America,  Travel

    Colombia – Tragedy and Transformation

    mari.noonan@gmail.com / March 17, 2024 / 5 Comments

    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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  • Hiking,  Spain

    Camino del Faro- The Lighthouse Way

    mari.noonan@gmail.com / September 17, 2023 / 7 Comments

    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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