The WonderDog and I have just been out for a wander along the cliff tops. I've been rather busy over the weekend with lots of people com...

This morning we woke up to an alien invasion. Sunny Sant Feliu has been overrun by brown jellyfish - medusas , as they're known in this ...

When we're back home in Ireland our default dog-walking venue is the White Lough, which is just a hop, a skip and a jump away from my pa...

I love Hay-on-Wye. It's totally my kind of town. Mr B and I are in the habit of going there on a fairly regular basis to shop, shop,...

This past couple of days I've been chilling, enjoying the (unusual for me) sensation of having nothing much to do. All my deadlines have...

Now I have to 'fess up to feeling a tad proprietary about the bluebell. You see I was born at the end of April, when, as my mother stil...

Once upon a very long time ago  snuff was all the rage. It started with the indigenous tribes of Brazil, and was carried back to the Old Wo...

Work on Beaumaris Castle, the castle on the fair marsh, started on 18 th April 1295 … and they still haven’t got the place finished. It...

Yesterday we really had to batten down the hatches and lie low while Storm Doris passed through town. She was a bit of a hell-raiser, old Do...

Now, at the risk of leading people to believe that I've morphed into a vampire, who only ventures out a night, I have to 'fess up to...

Do you ever go out for a moonlit stroll? Do you like to wander solitary beneath the stars? It's one of those activities that you could...

It doesn't have quite the same ring to it as going on a bear hunt , but on New Year's Day we headed out on a rock safari around the...

It's a quiet time of the year down at the harbour, with not so many boats going out every night. But that gives the fixer-uppers an oppo...

Today I'm loving a swamp Cypress - native of a mangrove swamp in the Florida Everglades, - that's made its home in Walpole Park. Who...

We've made it! We're finally here on the Costa Brava! And it's hot. Very hot! Emi goes to sailing school down on the beach eve...

And what a  week it's been. We've had a heatwave in Ireland. In Ireland! A heatwave! Who'd have thought? We showed up and brough...

The other day we headed off in search of an ancient druid site, where some of the old magic still lives on in the dappled light of the fores...

... is a really tasty thing. I jest you not. Here in Ireland in the month of July wild raspberries grow at the fringes of the forest that ar...

And TGI the holidays! Finally school's out for summer ... and we're already on the road! We're bombing up the motorway to Holy...

The Basilica of Sant Feliu is an ancient place, a very ancient place indeed. It’s an older church than the Cathedral of Santa Maria on top ...