Category: Blog

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A Welsh Affair

With the four day Easter weekend approaching and no plans other than the obligatory (and much looked forward to) family egg exchange, we began mooting ideas for a mini getaway. Very quickly we settled...

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Edinburgh bound

When JHubz told me the in-laws were coming to visit for three weeks I confess I panicked a little. We live in different countries and I do not know them that well, am easily...

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And on life goes…

I’ve missed writing these last, not so few, months. There’s definitely less to share now that we have settled into life in the British Countryside. But maybe there’s still enough to share that I’ll...

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The Returned

On the days leading up to our return to Nusa Lembongan, Mount Agung on Bali began to grumble while I fretted about a number of things including my increased weight, a result of 8...

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On the way

Job hunting has certainly been an eye opener. In my life pre travel I was an executive assistant, a blooming good one too, I’ve worked for Chairman level bosses for over ten years with...

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…best laid schemes of mice and men…

When we first had the seemingly crazy idea to leave our jobs, home, family and friends we knew we didn’t want to spend our last year living in central London in our heads imagining...

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Hibernation

After almost six hundred days in weather consistently in the thirties landing in London at minus two degrees was a bit of a shock to the system. The film of tiredness and plane grime covering...

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The Spiral

I was thinking about returning to England, about how we would have come full circle and then about how it seems to me there is no such thing, more a spiral of life that...

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crossroads

After an amazing five hundred and seventy seven days exploring South East Asia we are at a crossroads. Being a diving instructor is certainly not a career move, the pay is awful, the hours long,...