Imagine life on an 18th century whaling vessel – I only see misery. Years at sea, chasing whales for their valuable oil, the crew had no means of communication with their loved ones back home. In these vast, uninhabited seas, Floreana Island was a popular pit stop for fresh water and food (unfortunately, tortoise meat […]
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By January, 2022, we’d already ventured a few times from this island of ours post-Covid and, having lived to tell the tale, were feeling confident enough to hit the road (or the airport to be specific!) running as it were and more than ready to make up for lost time…. As usual, we’d no blueprint […]
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It’s all relative of course isn’t it, but putting wanderings and 2021 in the same headline or sentence is an achievement in itself! Needless to say, these wanderings didn’t take me very far from home – and there was certainly no SKIPPING or JUMPING!! For the first half of the year I ….. well….. I […]
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For a piece that started out as a non-event, I’m finding a surprising amount to write about! I’m amazed at what I can produce from the year that was….. It began, as many another, toasting in the New Year and wondering where the following months would take us. Summer 2020 would work around weddings – […]
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I’ve forgotten any bad bits already – I look back at 2019 as primarily a year of celebration. We had births, weddings, lots of retirements and LOTS of significant birthdays! And it was mainly the birthdays that kept us on the move -traveling for 50th’s, 60th’s and 80th’s from Dublin to London (twice) to mainland […]
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