Welcome

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 […]

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WHEELS

Wheels for the daily commute!!! This week’s theme from Debbie for One Word Sunday is WHEELS

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Fáilte go Baile Átha Cliath

Greetings from Dublin City Centre – the Parade is over but the streets are still teeming. Absolutely wonderful to see so many visitors enjoying themselves…. Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh Happy St. Patrick’s Day

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PULL UP A SEAT

Set out a short looped drive in Ireland’s south east yesterday but it was so miserable we just abandoned it and turned back. All was not lost though. We mightn’t have been able to leave the car but look what we spotted in the middle of nowhere – and I mean the middle of nowhere!!! […]

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London Out and About – A Weekend stroll around Shoreditch.

The jury is out when it comes to Shoreditch – it being either the coolest, edgiest neighbourhood in the city or over gentrified and past its sell-by date. I, for one, don’t really care – the artists and hipsters may have moved on to pastures new but it’s still a great place for a wander […]

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WASH!

NEEDS A WASH! (Just home after a very mucky outing!) WASH DAY (Somewhere in Northern Morocco) JUST WASHED (Clothesline, Porto) A WASHOUT! (Non stop rain in San Sebastian!) BOATWASH Not 100% sure about this but is the disrupted water behind the boat called the WASH? WASHED UP (Sargassum Seaweed washed up in San Pedro, Belize) […]

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