I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, one of our predicted retirement activities was travel. This is what we would do – we didn’t. Another grand plan was that with the freedom both psychological and actual that retirement would bring, unfettered, we would live for six months at a time in different parts… Continue reading Should a person move house when they retire?
Category: Travel
Retirement Reflections on our third Ireland trip
In one of my retirement blogs about Ireland last year I asked the question, during our second visit, whether it was wise to go back to a place that had given such pleasure the first time. Is there a danger that, having had such a great time, there was a likelihood, on return, that the… Continue reading Retirement Reflections on our third Ireland trip
Retirement and a galaxy far away
More strangeness in retirement. I’m sorry to keep harping on about it, but it’s true. Let’s see if I can make the case. There was a film many years ago, recently remade I believe, called Far from the Madding Crowd. It starred Julie Christie (of whom I was a big fan) and some bloke. In… Continue reading Retirement and a galaxy far away
Retirement house buying, concert going and film making in Ireland
The last time we were here in Dunquin we had guests who stayed with us for a few days. They were easy to be with and pleasant company but they altered the dynamic of our one week stay. This time we have our daughter and husband coming to stay for three nights but we have… Continue reading Retirement house buying, concert going and film making in Ireland
Retirement tales from Ireland : a burial ground experience
In my last blog I asked if holidays are a different experience when a person is retired. Are they in fact holidays as such, isn’t life one long holiday when one is retired? Well, here’s an addition to that debate. I’m writing this on Thursday and if we were only here for one week, as… Continue reading Retirement tales from Ireland : a burial ground experience
Retirement and being on holiday
I wonder how being on holiday when you are retired differs from being on holiday when you are a working person? That’s if you retain that sense of enjoying a holiday when you’re retired. Maybe being retired is just one long holiday and actually being on holiday is just another version of this life of… Continue reading Retirement and being on holiday
Retirement and looking back : It’s a long road to New Mexico
We had a visit last week from some old chums from America, Albuquerque in fact. My chum had been a pedeatrician and had retired at 65. I got the impression that he found retirement difficult, this despite telling me what a pleasure it was to read in bed in a morning and not to get… Continue reading Retirement and looking back : It’s a long road to New Mexico
Retirement and never go back?
They, whoever ‘they’ may be, say never go back, at least I think ‘they’ say this. I take it to mean that if you have been somewhere, in this case, the west coast of Ireland and you’ve had a great time, as we did on our last visit (of course this requires an intact memory… Continue reading Retirement and never go back?
Retirement and dear old Ireland
Once again our retirement travel plans centre on dear old Ireland. If you’ve read these blogs before you will remember we were here in May and enjoyed so much that here – out of season – we are again. It’s not long before Ireland weaves its magic spell. On our first morning we come down… Continue reading Retirement and dear old Ireland
Retirement in Australia!
Note the exclamation mark at the end of the title (the author’s), not a question mark. This is not a blog about me questioning whether we should retire to OZ. My daughter gets married today and so we’re a little bit pre-occupied. I was wondering whether I would have time to write a second blog… Continue reading Retirement in Australia!