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Read more: Cheshire
We have left the Lake District. With no real plans, we looked at what was between us and tonight’s accommodation and thought “Old Trafford?”. So we headed to Manchester via Kendal (of mint cake fame) to get some knitting needles for my next small project Initially we planned just to…
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Read more: The Lake District
We left Scotland behind today, travelling south (obviously) towards the Lake District. Our main “sight” for the day was the Cumberland Pencil Factory in Keswick. Home of Derwent Pencils! (We were in Keswick to replace the Victorinox swiss card that melted on a wood heater in Ireland.) The museum tour…
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Read more: NC500
We flew in from Faroe Islands, jumped into our car, (if you’re ever at Edinburgh airport and leaving a car, we highly recommend FastPark, it was so easy! We followed the signs, scanned our receipt, grabbed our keys out of the locker, walked to the specified bay and were at…
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Read more: Faroe Islands
Today we left Scotland, airborne, headed to the Faroe Islands. As previously mentioned this is an unexpected bonus due to lack of space on the ferry from mainland Scotland to the Shetlands and a paucity of accommodation on the Shetlands. (We won’t mention that if we had not been being…
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Read more: Month 4 review
May 1st – May 31st It was hard to choose the highlights of this month, there have been so many, and some had to be left out of this list! 1. Faroe Islands Scenery We may have seen THE most amazing scenery of our lives here and it just doesn’t…
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Read more: Edinburgh
We awoke to another gorgeous day in Edinburgh with temps of about 25 expected again. We raided the “summer clothes” bag to bare some limbs and stay cool.When we were ready to head out we jumped on a bus to Leith to tour the Royal Yacht Britannia. This was a…
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Read more: Scottish Highlands
We arrived in Scotland from the ferry in the early afternoon and drove alongside Loch Lomond for quite a while before passing through some stunning valleys with rocky mountains towering on either side. We stopped near Fort William to buy some groceries for the next few days and found our…
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Read more: Northern Ireland
This morning we headed over the border to a new country and a new currency, Northern Ireland! The transition was practically unnoticeable with no signs to indicate the border, certainly no armoured checkpoints as would have been present just 20 odd years ago. It was only Google changing the speed…
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Read more: Shannon Valley
This morning we headed to Lough Key Forest Park to do a parkrun. Our first in Ireland, our seventh parkrun country and our first parkrun where there is a castle! After a hot drink and sharing a toasting to warm up, we drove to the Arigneย Valley and the Arigne…
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Read more: The Wild Atlantic Way
Today we set of to drive the first section of The Altlantic Way. This route covers 2500km of coastline from the south, along the west coast and the north. We’ll be more or less following this for the next weeks or so. We actually did a little bit of it…
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Welcome! Bienvenue! Bienvenido! Wilkommen! Benvenuto!
We’re heading out on a mid-life gap year, that is 80% unplanned. As natural planners, we’re well and truly stepping out of our comfort zones.
We are currently here…
Countries visited (foot on ground):
26๐ถ๐ฆ ๐ฒ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ธ ๐ต๐น ๐ซ๐ท ๐ฆ๐ฉ ๐ฎ๐น ๐ป๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ช๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฎ๓ ฉ๓ ฒ๓ ฟ ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ ๐ซ๐ด ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ช ๐ซ๐ท ๐ง๐ช ๐ฑ๐บ ๐ฉ๐ช ๐ธ๐ฎ ๐ญ๐ท ๐ง๐ฆ ๐ฒ๐ช ๐น๐ท ๐ฆ๐ฑ
Distance travelled by mode (est):
- ๐: 22499km
- โด๏ธ:15; 3141km
- ๐: 8 ; 854km
- ๐ช: 2 ; 7km
- ๐ถ: 2 ; 8km
- ๐ฒ: 1 ; 30km
- ๐ฅ: 1 ; 13km
- ๐: 2 ; 4829km
- โ๏ธ: 6 ; 21130km
- ๐: 1 ; 5km
An Unplanned Year 