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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: Closing the Loop
Spain in November was much colder than we expected. Our week in the Sierra Nevada was gorgeous with mainly bright sunny days and cold nights (as low as 2C), Although the daytime temperatures…
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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 Travels: Out of Morocco
I was jittery, unable to eat anything. Caoimhin had no such qualms tucking into fried eggs and hunks of bread for breakfast in our little apartment in Cabo Negro, a little seaside town…
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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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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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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…