February 14, 2020February 14, 2020Ireland, Travel Ireland – July 2019 Anticipating that I was going to be taking a job starting early August (more of that later), we decided to use the […]
September 30, 2018September 30, 2018Early Retirement, Finance and investing Could you retire early…? (Part 1 of 2) …read a recent headline in the Guardian which was followed by an article in this week’s Saturday Telegraph (“Can I really retire […]
July 5, 2018July 5, 2018Early Retirement, Finance and investing How much do I need for retirement and will it last? These are the two most emotive topics facing the average early retiree (which for this purpose we’ve chosen 55). In a recent […]
November 23, 2017Travel, West Coast USA Day 21 – Universal Studio’s Hollywood I should have mentioned that we’re staying in the Hilton Universal City which is just across the road from the Universal Studios […]
November 22, 2017Travel, West Coast USA Day 20 – Los Angeles Hollywood When you ask a lot of people about what Los Angeles is famous for they will automatically talk about Hollywood. But […]
November 18, 2017Travel, West Coast USA Day 19 – Magic Mountain Today is a Marmite day … you’re either going to love it or hate it. Whether you’re a fan or not you […]
November 17, 2017Travel, West Coast USA Day 18 – Cambria to Santa Barbara (via Pismo Beach) We were all fairly disappointed in Cambria and I think the issue is that we had followed the traditional highway 1 itinerary […]
November 8, 2017Travel, West Coast USA Day 17 – Carmel to Cambria Let’s start the day by talking about bargains and discounts. I love to haggle and I really don’t care if people get […]
November 7, 2017Travel, West Coast USA Day 16 – San Francisco to Carmel This morning we’re packing up and heading out of SF and on our final trek south to our end station in LA. […]
November 5, 2017Travel, West Coast USA Day 15 – San Francisco (day 3 of 3) Our last full day in SF and we really have been lucky with the weather. On our first day, it was very […]