It's getting on to a full year since we bought Wyuna, our house in Barney View. We've tried to get there (we still live, just, in Upper Mount Gravatt, the suburb of Brisbane) as much as we could, spending most weekends and even occasionally full weeks, at Easter and school holidays in summer, but as… Continue reading A New Year, a new plan
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On the good ship Gráinne Mhaol
The Mooloolah river flows into the Coral Sea just south of the seaside town of Mooloolaba. In its final half kilometre it wraps around a spit, enveloping the boats anchored in Mooloolaba Marina that stick out into it on hundred-metre-long arms. On arm C of the Marina is a thirty-five-or-so foot yacht called the Gráinne… Continue reading On the good ship Gráinne Mhaol
A little piece of Greece in Bloomsbury
Our travels took us to London this past weekend, and to a part of town we weren't at all familiar with: Angel. Sandwiched between the City Road and Regent's Canal, our Airbnb place at Theseus Place took us along the calm waters of the canal with its colourfully inhabited barges each time we came and went to Angel tube… Continue reading A little piece of Greece in Bloomsbury
To Kingdom Come
We looked on Couchsurfing recently for options for a two-day midterm break stay somewhere in Ireland, and Bert from the Netherlands got back to us. He lives just outside Abbeyfeale, in the county of Kerry, or 'The Kingdom' as they like to call it down there, so we thought: why not? That was far enough away to make it worthwhile going… Continue reading To Kingdom Come
Interview about ‘On a Greek Island’ on Chrissie Parker’s blog
Chrissie Parker, who herself has written a book about Zakynthos, called 'Among the Olive Groves', asked me to answer a few questions about 'On A Greek Island', which you can see on her latest blog post.
Camping trip in Poland
Here's a short piece I wrote for the Irish Times amateur travel writer competition recently. We'd just come back from Poland, so it seemed like a good idea to write about that. Camping near Weba Only a few hours of daylight were left to us - Maciej and his wife and two kids; me and mine… Continue reading Camping trip in Poland
Family trip to Berlin
After leaving Zakynthos we flew to Berlin via Athens. Not the quickest way to go but the cheapest option we found at the time. We flew with Aegean Airlines who were surprisingly good with 23kg of luggage and meal included. We'd chosen to stay in a small pension-hotel in Charlottenburg- Wilmersdorf because of its excellent… Continue reading Family trip to Berlin
The Peloponnese – Monemvasia and Elafonissos
In part two of our trip around the Peloponnese we went to Polilimnio and the Mani. It was time to leave the Mani even though we'd only had time to see a tiny part of it. We headed south to Areopoli and through the mountain pass towards Gytheio with a quick swimming stop at Mavrovouni… Continue reading The Peloponnese – Monemvasia and Elafonissos
The Peloponnese – Polilimnio and the Mani
In part one of our trip around the Peloponnese we went to Ancient Messene, Pylos and Methoni Castle. After two nights it was time to leave 'sandy Pylos', as it was called by Homer. We were going to head east across Messinia, go straight through Kalamata, and then drive south down the second finger, the… Continue reading The Peloponnese – Polilimnio and the Mani
The Peloponnese – Ancient Messene, Pylos and Methoni Castle
We've recently returned from a week's driving tour around the Peloponnese - a holiday within a holiday, if you will. We'd been in Zakynthos for two and a half months by mid-June, and once the boys finished school it seemed like a great time to head off for a bit of exploring. I'd previously been… Continue reading The Peloponnese – Ancient Messene, Pylos and Methoni Castle
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