Well, well, well - our original six week sit in Dublin turned into a eight week sit after the Porto debacle, then we tacked another two or three weeks onto the end due to our fabulous hosts being held up in the USA due to a medical emergency. Serious. Life threatening - not once but twice. So that was indeed a stressful time for them and we were worried to death on their behalf. We ended up in Dublin for over 10 weeks. Yowser. After we enjoyed our wintry Chris...

Black and white, night and day, dark and light. That would be the difference between Porto and Dublin. We were up bright and early in Porto and rip-snorting ready to go. We were scheduled on the 10 am flight but had only booked that so we wouldn't have to rush. As it turns out we were deathly keen to rush and move on to our fabulous stay in Dublin. Even with loads of traffic getting into the airport departures drop off area we were at the counter and checking...

By the time we'd spent 6 weeks in sunny, windy, seaside Dun Laoghaire… it was time to move on. Little did we realise we would end up spending almost 3 months in Ireland. What can we say - we're popular. But we are fully realised adults these days and we've also realised we are 100% city people. We like the buzz, the shops, the walking, the food for the eyes - all of it. We were robbed of it during the four month lockdown in Sydney and are still catching u...

What a trip! Long but good. We could have flown direct from Marrakech to Dublin with Ryanair - but between the 8 hour delay on our incoming flight to Morocco, the ever present threat of strikes and the antisocial hour of the arrival (which would have involved half a night in a hotel as we'd arrive at 1 am or so)… Instead we flew to Istanbul, had a 7 hour layover for a great snooze and a shower in the lounge, and then on to Dublin. Lots of movies, nice food...

Here we are, back in one of our many spiritual homes, the Irish countryside. (Other spiritual homes? Paris specifically and Spain generally.) We went out for dinner with our owners on night 1 and they are now off on their holidays whilst we start our travelling lifestyle again. We didn't need to prove our vaccination status at all during our 3 days in Dublin, which felt very weird indeed - as did the lack of QR checkins. Definitely relaxing and nice, but stil...