Every year we spend November in Co. Wicklow, Ireland. After four years we think the re-christening to Co. Cat Country is not just due but in fact, overdue. It was fab to arrive on the 28th, bleary with jetlag and the tiniest bit hungover (truly - didn’t touch a drop on the flight up to Dublin - it was the Auckland lounge and the 18 hours up to Doha that did the trick). Surfaced on the 29th... and made it to 10.30 am before going back to bed - nothing like a...

When we are 'travelling', sometimes it seems we see/do/experience 100 things in a day. When we are 'living' as we have been the last couple of weeks, there is a restful and charming peace to our existence - walks by the lake ('the odd couple" is today's picture - mother & child near Glendalough), the first snow of the season (brrrrr!), playing with the cats, and, of course, binging on Netflix (admission of the problem is the first stage of recovery - we survi...

Two weeks has flitted by seemingly in the blink of an eye. We drove north to Wicklow in the space of a two and a half hours, dropped our ever-increasing luggage at our friends place then motored into Dublin to return the rental car. Never quite such a feeling of relief as we have returning a rental car in one piece and not getting fleeced by the car company for any real or imagined damage. Phew! Back to our base in tiny Crehelp (near Dunlavin, which is near Bles...