And so, as I write this on the return train journey, the weekend moves towards its conclusion, not quite home but getting there and by now we’re glad. We’re knackered. That London on a hot weekend, full of protesters and 10 km runners and roads blocked off and police sirens and no taxis and so…
Category: Travel
Retirement and travelling round the world
I’d better explain this title right up front. There is, and probably never will be, any travelling round the world not while we have the dogs but you’ve got to admit it’s an eye-catching title. The idea resurfaced this time (for it is one I’ve speculated about many times) as a result of another body…
Retirement blog on the move
I don’t know how people blog on the move / while travelling. Apart from having only limited time to think because you’re so busy moving, there are the technical difficulties to deal with, one of which, I discover, is hitting the right bloody keys. I have written a blog while driving up the M1 but…
When retired expect the unexpected
You might say that when you’re retired you have more time to let the unexpected into your life. I wrote recently that while my planning hadn’t always worked out, events brought about by random chance or fate or accident or serendipity or whatever you want to call it, had come through strong. You couldn’t have…
Retirement and music on holiday
There’s a big pod or box on the top of the Land Rover and there’s a reason for it and nothing really to do with retirement. No, it’s not to put our wheelchairs in it to bring it to Ireland. It’s a first, both the pod and the reason for it. I bought it so…
Retirement and the holiday goes on
So the views, this is why we do it, come to Ireland I mean, not retire. The tedium of travel over for a while at least and another beautiful day on the Kerry coast. At least for now, it’s never entirely wise to brag about the weather, this is Ireland after all and the…
Retirement and the joys of travel
What is it they say? You can’t fight city hall? Is that it? I’m not quite sure what it means but I think it’s something to do with the fates being against you or something. We’re on the first leg of our annual trip to Ireland and things haven’t so far gone entirely to my…
Is this the missing retirement link?
I’ve been writing about the missing link in my retirement for about as long as I’ve been writing this blog and that’s quite a long time. I probably should have called the blog the missing link. In case you missed it it’s the idea that my retirement is OK, pretty good even apart, that is,…
Retirement : Is this the missing link?
Maybe not but it certainly makes you think. It’s been my little secret, not exactly a dirty one but certainly one that I would be cautious about admitting to a wider audience. It may be that people will see me in a different light after this confessional blog. Is this what I want? Should I…
Retirement and the actual truth
Did you ever have a reputation for being good at something that, in your heart of heart’s, you knew not to be quite true? Does retirement incline a person more towards admitting to these falsehoods? Or, conversely, do we hang on to the varnished untruths because, in our retirement, we need the comfort, albeit false,…