I thought it was time to share my Spanish learning curves, since it’s pushing almost six months now and I’ve learned quite a lot, mostly what NOT to...

We watched the Life Of Brian on Netflix the other day (what? not Christmas-ey enough?) - mostly because Susan had never seen it before, but also for...

Several years ago, I had a watch with a barometer in it - presumably designed for people who ski a lot, and want to know how much they’ve gone up and...

The town of Pucón is a good ten-hour bus ride south of Santiago, nestled between lakes and volcanoes in the Araucanía region of Chile. All the...

I saw some people having a competition on social media recently. Simple rules: when you hear the Wham classic “Last Christmas” you’re out; everybody...

A solitary voyager embarked on an infinite journey would require an infinity of transit lounges - J. G. Ballard, Report on an Unidentified Space...

The Maasai Mara National Reserve isn’t too far from Nairobi as the crow flies, but the road gets progressively worse as you get closer. There’s a big...

I started making these micro short videos from clips taken in our Safari. I started calling the series “15 Seconds Reminders” even though not all are...

What we tend to do when self-catering in an apartment, serviced apartment or a house with a kitchen is basically buy ingredients for tasty dishes we...

From Amboseli, we drove back to Nairobi then down into the Rift Valley, stopping for a quick break at a viewpoint where Susan bought a soapstone...

We booked a 6-day safari trip from Nairobi by the time-honoured method of Googling for options then choosing the second-cheapest option. (Actually,...

A couple of days before we left Morocco, an alert popped up on both of our phones saying that there was new timezone information to download. I've...

Tetouan is a town in Northern Morocco, 60 km from Tangier. Nicknamed the White Dove, with a sculpture of a white dove in a square, the city’s walls...

Everybody seems to call it Chaouen (“peaks”), which was its old name before the Spanish changed it to Xaouen, and then in 1975 it became Chefchaouen...

We flew from Brussels Charleroi to Tangier at sparrow’s fart, taking the 4 am bus from Bruxelles Midi (booked through flibco.com: not sure who...

Just a fun comparative observation of our groceries and the content of our fridges in different countries. Top two image are our groceries in...

We left Barcelona at the end of September for the Low Countries: from olives, wine, and anchovies to cold rain, beer, and moules frites. And to...

A word to the wise: it’s good to back up your phone to your computer in case Something Bad happens; it’s also good to make sure your backups are...

We were walking through the (under-appreciated and remarkably tourist-free) Hospital de Sant Pau yesterday… …when what looked like a lime fell off a...

Well, not us of course… Oh wow that’s a building. You’ve all seen better pictures of the architecture than I can take, so here are some of the people...

So it’s been just over two weeks in Barcelona. We’re getting used to the nearby church clock chimes (a chime per quarter of an hour, and then on the...

We’ve now been in Barcelona for a whole week, which was mostly spent sleeping and reading until getting off our collective arses and heading to a...

We passed many castles, but Leamaneh Castle, on the way from Bunratty to Loughrea was kind of special. It sits in the parish of Killinaboy, in the...

Kilreekil is a good 40 minutes east of Galway by motorway. This means it has comparatively nice weather (although, being in western Ireland, this...