Hi. I’m Marie and you are very welcome to HopsSkipsandJumps. If you are reading this you are probably like me – happiest when planning your next trip (or 2… or 3….!) I’m a very unlikely victim of a travel bug. Firstly, the gene pool – my parents were of that generation that only […]
Read MoreFrom Waterford Walls street Art Festival (August, 2023) For Debbie’s ONE WORD SUNDAY
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It’s not all sheep, rugby and camper vans, you know! Art Trails NOT the first thing that springs to mind is it! It doesn’t quite compete with the natural environment but there are surprises along the way. Christchurch offers up plenty of abandoned walls for artists to display their canvases while Nelson’s City Centre Artwalk […]
Read MoreNo… Not really…. This 20 metre long bronze sculpture – Arbre des Voyelles – by Italian artist Giuseppe Penone, is a major crowd-pleaser in the Tuileries Gardens, Paris. For Debbie’s ONE WORD SUNDAY
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From our first visit in 1986, up to the most recent this summer, I think ( only think) we’ve visited Italy 15 times. We’d eight family camping holidays that took in the ‘big’ Italian names – Rome, Florence, Venice, Siena, Pisa, Sorrento, etc. as well as lakes, mountains beaches, pasta…… We’d two self drive trips […]
Read MoreAlmost there – making landfall in Dublin…… (evening, November 2021) For Debbie’s One Word Sunday
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