What is Slow Travel? For me, it is staying in one place for weeks at a time, getting to know the area, be acknowledged by your neighbours, essentially living like a local. It might also include improving your language skills. You become less a tourist, more a resident. If you move permanently to a new… Continue reading Slow Travel is Luxury
Category: Life in General
A Day Well Spent – Passing on my skills
What did you do with your weekend? I used mine to pass on some specialist skills. As I no longer work, weekends sort of lose their urgency, but I can still appreciate the attraction and enjoyment for those who are still working. For me, a Saturday is pretty much the same as a Tuesday, except… Continue reading A Day Well Spent – Passing on my skills
I’m Sorry I Retired
I’m sorry I retired! From someone who posted just a few weeks ago about my 6 years of retirement being the best days of my life, that is a big change in a very short time. Why? Just the other day, I went to a presentation on ‘the future of automation, and how it will… Continue reading I’m Sorry I Retired
Book Review -Financial Freedom by Gisela Enders
Financial Freedom – How people live when they no longer need to work. This book is a distillation of a series of conversations with people who have already achieved financial freedom, how they got there, and what they now do. It is an easy read. Many ideas are just dropped in, for you to think… Continue reading Book Review -Financial Freedom by Gisela Enders
Preserve Those Memories
We think our memories will last forever, but they don’t. We grow older and forget things, things which we thought would be with us forever. Someone’s voice, what they looked like, how they smiled. Time moves on, you forget the details of the event, or even the event itself! I woke up this morning, bright… Continue reading Preserve Those Memories
Goodbye Madrid – We’ll Miss You
Sadly our trip to Madrid has come to a close. We were really spoiled. The sun shone every day. Only in the last 24 hours did we get any rain. For someone who has lived in Ireland and Scotland, I think that is the longest I have ever gone without seeing rain. The reason Scotland… Continue reading Goodbye Madrid – We’ll Miss You