I couldn’t say that we only discovered Ireland when we retired, we’d visited the land of our forefather’s several times before that, but it was with retirement that we started to spend time there (mostly in the same cottage in Kerry) every year. We loved it, even without the family connections. Many of these blogs…
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Retro travel blog, Looking back from retirement : All come to look for America
Retro travel blog. I thought I might make one last reference to America before moving on with my life. So here is a retro blog from 2016. interesting I think. I wrote this blog quite a while ago for another blog site, an American site about retirement. Some things have changed (I’ve noted some) a…
Heading Home, a retirement blog
Heading home. So here we are on our way home, in the words of the song. In The Hilton Garden Inn in Denver after flying from Durango yesterday (a smooth flight this time). Mrs Summerhouse has just been out of the hotel to check our money situation. This on our dollar credit card for lack…
Life on the road, retirement blog
Life on the road. You could say without fear of contradiction that the picture above is what this trip is all about. It’s the land we bought many years ago and have now gifted to the children. So this adventure is about the four of us making our way to this spot. We’re revisiting it,…
Retirement long haul travel blog 2
Long haul travel blog 2. Phew and double phew. You might tell from the fact that this blog is already a day late and could be more if we don’t get our internet connection here at the Air BnB sorted out, that we have been having what might be mildly called a hectic time. As…
Retirement long-haul travel blog
So phew, a retirement long-haul travel blog and here we are in Denver and hopefully writing the first retirement travel blog of this trip. Hopefully the first of many but so far it’s not been straightforward. The immediate problem, apart from the fact that it’s twenty past two in the morning, is that my electrical…
A heck of a retirement week
Well, all I can say is it’s going to be a heck of a retirement week. I don’t have a lot of time to write this blog but let me try and give you a flavour of what’s in store for Mrs Summerhouse and I. Probably the first thing to say is that on Saturday…
Retirement travels (long haul)
It’s been a long time since I wrote about long-haul retirement travels. All to do with the dogs you will remember. I’m determined to continue looking on the bright side in these blogs although it would be all too easy to focus on the medical side of my life especially after a Monday morning like…
Retirement Travel: a brief blog
Retirement travel. Well the fact is, there hasn’t been much of it this last couple of years for obvious reasons. In one way the predicted travel that was intended to form a central plank of our retirement hasn’t happened either. This on account of somebody, that would be me, getting two dogs just two weeks…
Retirement travel : 5 things we missed about that London
Sorry about missing Friday’s retirement travel blog (and Sunday’s retro blog) for those of you who care about such things. But we’re home now and, subject to another Lateral Flow Test, we’ve survived the trip I’m going to report on below, in the form of a blog about our retirement travels. You can see why…