So... where was I? Leaving Edinburgh in the afternoon, we jumped on a bus and headed for Pitlochry to meet Sarah, one of my friends from way back in Airlie Beach in 2004. We arrived after an absolutely magical bus ride, the scenery so beautiful with all the reds and yellows of Autumn coating the countryside. Sares was excited to see us, and shovelled us off home to me her parents, Sandra and David. They are such a wonderful family, and live in a beautiful home amongst a bunch of family owned chalet lodgings that they rent out to travellers. It [View Full Entry]

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The first thing that I’d like to point out is that I’m still on strike, and will only write when I feel like it. So there. (Humph) By the power of technology, I’m writing this blog from a bus heading North from Glasgow to Portree in the Isle Of Skye. This new Acer netbook is gas, and I believe the guy next to me has been looking up from his iPhone in a very jealous manner a few times. I’m a bit miffed about the fact that they advertise all the buses in Citylink as having Wifi. Needless to say, this [View Full Entry]

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Ladies and Gentlebugs - another short blog... try to contain your sighs of relief... While Jo and Billy were on holidays, we had a blast housesitting and catching up on our housekeeping. We walked the dogs along the beach everyday which was lovely, as long as the weather was good. Which it sometimes was. Got a see a seal poking its little head up and watching the dogs and us with great scepticism while we whooped with delight. We took a day trip to Trim Castle, north west of Dublin and then headed to Dublin to visit Miss Veronica and see [View Full Entry]

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So, apparently every time we leave Wicklow without an escort, the weather turns to pot. We did a trip to the west by car, going through stab city (aka Limerick) and stopping at Ennis. Great town and an even greater hostel: the Rowan Tree. Totally recommend it. Next day we headed off to see Bunratty Castle and its medieval village (great castle, village was a little crap), a bunch of abbeys as usual, and the Cliffs of Moher. These were truly spectacular, and there is a walk you can do to get to a few awesome vantage points. These points were [View Full Entry]

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I’ve just been to check in the mirror to see if I’m turning green. I’m feeling so Irish today that I think I’m going to have to write this blog to the sound of an irish jig… Yes… I can see it now!!! … ahem … *cue fiddley-type music with a tin flute and a concertina, good for toe tapping or swinging a knacker lass ‘round a room… as I swing a big green hat on, cock me right eye and light me bac-heater!” THE IRELAND SONG - To be sung in a Belfast accent I’d loike te say that everythin’ [View Full Entry]

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Allo readers. What's the craic? It's me again, and this time I'm on time! I would like to make a point. After spending a week driving along the south coast of the beautiful country of Ireland, I am quite convinced that I have discovered a conspiracy behind the “droughts” we were forced to endure when growing up in Gunnedah…. Ireland has been secretly stealing all the rain from the rest of the planet. Thieving bastards! It has done nothing but lash down for a whole week, with nary a crack o’ te sun in the days. But, avid readers, that didn’t [View Full Entry]

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Hello readers! Lovely day for it! Let me bring you up to speed. We had arrived back in Bielany at 6am after our flight home from Sardo, immediately went to bed for six hours to counter a stupid lack of sleep, and then got our washing started and relaxed. We stayed at Jacek’s place for the remainder of our time as our room in Misia’s house had gone to it’s rightful occupant after us staying there forever, and we said our goodbyes to the Renes side of the family as we wouldn’t be seeing them again before we left. We spent [View Full Entry]

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SO! Then we arrived in Cagliari, and had to kill some time while Enrico finished his day at the beach. We chucked our luggage in the local bus terminal’s luggage storage for a bit of cash, then ate some self-prepared lunch and decided to go for a wander. We found ANOTHER tourist info place, got a map, and then legged it. Cagliari as far as we can tell from our small adventure is a very pretty place. Unfortunately for some reason while we were walking around it started to get hot. Very hot. Not only that, Sardegna has shade poverty, and [View Full Entry]

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Howdy y’all, Nemo here. A lot has happened in a so I’m going to try and keep it so that doesn’t become brain-achingly painful to read. Here goes... We went back to Mazury for Ciocia Malgosia’s 50th, meeting a whole heap of people from all over the place. What a group of people. I was introduced to friends of the family, relatives both close and distant, and I waffled on in my nearly unintelligible Polish and they laughed and we all got along like a house on fire, both young and old. The person I got along best with was Konrad, [View Full Entry]

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Those of you who know me well know that I suffer from a constant need for organisation. Spontaneity is not my strong point and doing nothing is somewhat akin to hell for me. And so the past couple of weeks have been impossibly challenging, and completely rewarding. We've spent the past few days hanging out at my aunt and uncle's farm in Mazury and pretty much enjoying the good life. Once Nemo finished writing his last blog, we took a trip to the lake and while my uncle and Nemo paddled off in a row boat to indulge in a spot [View Full Entry]

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