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  • UK
    • Edinburgh – an old friend
    • It’s EaZzzzzy with Holidos and Don’ts
    • The Guernsey Coup
    • Beardie Burns and the Caribbean
    • Yappy 150th Anniversary Greyfriars Bobby
    • Goodbye to pre-departure tests
    • Belfast’s rich tapestry
    • Belfast Chilled
    • Today 190 years ago Darwin set out
    • Potter gold for 2022
    • The Travel Show Must Go On
    • Storm Barra and island it’s named after
    • A Magical Mystery Tour of Liverpool
    • Carole King… you’re Beautiful
    • The London life
    • Aberdeen – a light in the north
    • Water Unesco splash in Liverpool
    • A hunch about Richard III
    • I belong to Glasgow
    • Heaven for Devon
    • Islay – isle of whisky
  • Europe
    • Venice unmasked
    • Olof Palme the Swedish moral pioneer
    • Florence or Firenze?
    • Provence through Van Gogh’s eyes
    • Dachau and World Holocaust Day
    • EU Freedom of Movement and Mdina
    • Venice’s €5 entry fee is a bridge too far
    • 2022 the year of the Big Medjugorje Reveal
    • Wunderbar Germany is open again
    • The Swede Life
    • Italian winter ski insurance
    • Happy Euro Year
    • Old Man Frost a gift to the world
    • Let there be light today Saturnalia and Apollo
    • Bergamo, mola mia – stay strong!
    • Why German trains always run on time
    • Water way to go in Biarritz
    • The Lourdes prayer
    • The Boat D’Azur
    • The call of the fjords
    • Swhisskey on the rocks
    • Soll Mates
    • Small roads lead to Rome
    • Secret Portugal
    • Pictures of Amsterdam
    • My Greek odyssey
    • Malta pleaser
    • In Flanders fields
    • Hope springs eternal
    • Hamburgers and ships
    • George Clooney and Amal’s Amsterdam hotel
    • Dresden’s renaissance
    • A pilgrim’s prayer
      • A walk through the ages… Tenerife
  • America
    • One’s a pancake and the other’s crepe
    • New item
    • To-all-o-me from Railtown Yosemite
    • The Duckmaster of the Peabody
    • This is Wicked and more like Storm Elphaba
    • John Glenn and other space cadets
    • Tracks on Route 66
    • Touchdown LA
    • Cop a load of San Francisco
    • The letters S and D for San Diego
    • Why Columbus mistook manatees for mermaids
    • West Side Story in New Jersey
    • My Weekend With Marilyn
    • Stair Wars
    • Why I love The Donald
    • The story of the Blues
    • The Promised Land
    • The grandest canyon
    • Strip… the light fantastic
    • Sign up for the Civil War… it is Virginia
    • See off Voldemort, then for a beer at Moe’s
    • Philadelphia Freedom
    • Go West
    • Get your Rocks off
    • Easy DC
    • Aaawlando… Orlando, the rollercoaster capital
  • Ireland
    • The perfect Guinness
    • Valentine’s Day motorcar
    • The Guernsey Coup
    • A tale of two new cities Belfast and Derry
    • Liam Neeson promoting Ireland and he will find you
    • Where is Ireland on this jigsaw?
    • Clock Irish history
    • Flyday Friday – Shannon’s Irish Coffee?
    • Windrush Day – know Black, know Irish
    • Tabasco Irish Louisiana and the source of the sauce
    • Thirteen years an Irishman – five top cities
    • Thirteen years an Irishman – My capital cities (and Istanbul)
    • Thirteen years an Irishman – Five holy holidays
    • Thirteen years an Irishman – My Sporting Weekend Five
    • Thirteen years an Irishman – My five Irish homes
    • Rainy Days and Songdays – The Royal Canal and other Irish landmarks
    • Rugby central, it’s the InterCon… what a Ledge!
    • Monaghan’s country roads
    • How the seasons pass
    • Flowerscourt
  • Asia
    • Holy Cow India’s back
    • Why Qatar makes frankincense
    • Stand up for the Stans
    • She Israel beautiful
    • Atoll tale – the Maldives
    • Carbon neutral in Mauritius
    • Abu Fhabi
    • Flyday Friday – Abu Dhabi do
    • Abu Dhabi would be Fabi
    • Chiva-Som unThai those knots
    • Miss Universe Israel treat
    • Easter in Israel
    • Israel it’s All Kinds of Everything
    • Water into wine Israeli delicious
    • Wham bam, thank you Hamam
    • Turkish delight: Airline that has it all
    • Unearthed Petra
  • Africa
    • Ghana this day
    • I’m proud of my Desmond
    • New item
    • Snow in Africa this Christmastime
    • A Kenyan tribal elder as a souvenir
    • Ellen and Rwanda
    • Ethiopia’s first lady
    • Ethiopian Enkutatash an d another year younger
    • What’s new pussycat?
    • Day in the life of a township
    • Lions in Siya Africa
    • Tale of elephants in Edinburgh or Africa
    • Our return to Africa and the Middle East
    • What’s new pussycat?
  • Adventure
    • Life’s a tent pitch
    • Klondike 125 years gold
    • Take A Hike Day
  • Culture
    • Gary Larson is the Cartoon King of Kings
    • Here’s Jimmy shining a light on Halloween
    • Happy Quacksgiving Day
    • Czech out these film stars
    • World Poetry Day and foreign fields
  • Flying
    • Turkish Airlines’ 12-hour flit
    • Why airports are museums
    • Flyday Friday – Flight to the Promised Land
    • Flyday Freeday Friday – Ethiopian have you covered
    • Flyday Friday’s beautiful beasts of the sky
  • Sport
    • Women football ban
    • My Sporting Weekend – Olympic ‘sports’
    • My Sporting Weekend – Subbuteo, yabbuteo!
    • My Sporting Weekend – cow fighting breaks out
    • My Sporting Weekend International Yoga Day
    • My Sporting Weekend – You’ll Never Walk Alone
    • My Sporting Weekend – Reagan, The Gipper and the Super Bowl
    • My Sporting Weekend – Le Tour de Friends
    • My Sporting Weekend – a tale of two Georgias
    • SPORTUGAL
  • Cruising
    • Cruiseday Extra – Loyal to my Princess
    • Cruiseday Tuesday – Round the World with my Princess
    • I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out To Here
    • The call of the fjords
    • A Royal Party
  • Pilgrimage
    • There’s something about Mary Magdalene
    • The Lourdes prayer
    • What’s the story, Medjugorje? Wouldn’t you like to know?
    • Small roads lead to Rome
    • A pilgrim’s prayer
  • Australasia
    • North South Seas and Treasure Island
    • The Fijians of Athenry
    • Yes we haka can New Zealand
    • Ready, steady GOAT… racing in Tobago
  • Caribbean
    • They think it’s Barbados Crop Over it is now
    • Dominica where tall is her body
    • Beardie Burns and the Caribbean
    • Cuba – Viva La Evolucion
    • All roads lead to rum in Barbados
    • Scotland or the Caribbean – my best world beaches
    • 14 years of Good Girl Gone Bad Rihanna
    • Rainy days and songdays – Belfast and Jamaican Wailers
    • Saint Vincent and Grenadines appeal
    • Flagging up Jimmyaica
    • Elsa heroes in Bim half-shell
    • Rainy Days and Songdays – Jamaica sings Burns
    • Yeah Mon Jamaican Independence Day
    • Sandals Jamaica I dig it
    • Netflix and chill in Anguilla with Timberlake
    • Jamaica? No, she came of her own accord
    • Barack and Barbados and me
    • Let the bells parang out for Christmas
    • My kiss with Rihanna
    • Let’s rumba in Barbados
  • Sustainable Tourism
    • Atoll target of 1.5 or die
    • Sustainable Air Travel
  • Skiing
    • Holiskis and don’ts… and the frozen penis
    • Climb every mountain and ski down them
    • Take to the French hills
    • Soll Mates
  • Music
    • Meat Loaf, Vegas and a life in the fast lane
    • Rainy Days and Songdays Carols
    • Rainy Days and Songdays – International Women
    • Rainy days and Songdays – Holyday favourites
    • Rainy days and songdays – Belfast and Jamaican Wailers
    • Rainy Days and Songdays my Oscars favourite songs
    • Rainy Days and Songdays – Mersey mix
    • Rainy Days and Songdanes and Scandis
  • Food & Wine
    • Tobago Chocolate Tea
    • World Ice Cream Day
    • Vin, biere et Le Supermarche
    • Who is beerier than Prague?
    • World Porridge Day
    • Hungry and Thursday – Afrikaans pumpkin fritters
    • Hungry and Thursday – Lobster for Thanksgiving
    • Hungry and Thursday – Martiniqis in Martinique?
  • Deals
    • What happened to the Mini Ms Mouse?
    • Benefits in going Cold Turkey
    • Craic Friday
    • Back in Black Friday
  • Holidos and Don’ts

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