Island of Islay – Kilchoman Distillery
6th August 2023 I have been supplying cards and prints to Kilchoman Distillery for a number of years and every time I pack up an order I try and picture where it is going. So on our way home we sailed to Islay and I was determined to visit the distillery. It turned...
5 Coastal Wildlife Gift Ideas
These are my 5 gift recommendations for lovers of wild coastlines and the birds found there. 1. Curlew Moon Gift Box I only have 4 of these left! A copy of ‘Curlew Moon’ by Mary Colwell, an engraved Curlew enamel mug, a pouch of delicious NearyNógs stoneground...
A Day in Venice
Having spent a day and two nights in Florence we travelled by train at 120 km/hr to Venice. I have often thought about Venice, where the roads are made of water and transport is by boat, and here I was at last. City of Light To me this is a place about light,...
Florence – Visit to the Uffizi Gallery
Earlier this month I visited Italy for the first time. The first two nights were spent in Florence in an Airbnb apartment close to the centre of the city on Via Sant’Antonino. Despite it being October the weather was like a heatwave at home. After dragging our...
Puffin Close Encounter
Sailing Wildlife Adventure: Day 16 – What an experience this was… Lunga is part of the Treshnish Isles and as usual we didn’t know much about it, we hadn’t visited it before because the weather had been so bad. Today again the sea was a flat...
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