A winter bare tree looks out over Lough Leane. A stray ray of sunlight hits the mountains of Killarney. Pool sized puddles bear witness to bad weather. I’m told January is the worst of it and the weather will only get better. I’m really not sure what all the fuss is about.
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Somewhere in the heart of Morocco we watched a band of bikers emerge from the distance, turn into the place where we were and pull up as a group. Should we be concerned? The moment helmets came off and they shared their beaming faces with each other I felt the same joy and elation of […]
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Wild places, and especially desolate ones, stir things deep and unspoken within us. They bring us thoughts and feelings and ideas that delight, enthral, confuse and sometime even scare. I wonder how many lives have changed in profound ways simply from the experience of some wild and desolate place giving them some new vision. I […]
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This unlikely juxtaposition of Saharan desert, campfire and ghostly lithium-driven illumination tells much about modern travel and exotic remote places. Wherever we go we almost expect the ether will be filled with those precious radio waves that bring an intrusive internet into places where perhaps it should not be. Danny and Silvi, lit by their […]
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It was both lovely and humbling spending time amid the Amazigh people of Zaouiat Ahansa. This is a place where motorised vehicles were absent, where people commuted by foot and donkeys carried goods, firewood and people. A rare extravagance might even be a rider on horseback. When I say, “amid the Amazigh”, I do not […]
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