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The Big Year Out: March 2008
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The Big Year Out. The Cleary's have taken year out to live and travel in Spain. This blog is to keep family and friends up to date with the whole adventure.warts and all. Sunday, March 30, 2008. Phuket and Phi Phi. A couple of weeks for the Summer we missed. A chance to get back into the water and get the masks on. A time to relax in the sun.and of course the food! It didn't take long for the 'Harry Potter' stuff to start and Angus was fired up by day 2. I will never read Harry Potter, I hate him, NEVER.
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The Big Year Out: Adios Orgiva
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The Big Year Out. The Cleary's have taken year out to live and travel in Spain. This blog is to keep family and friends up to date with the whole adventure.warts and all. Friday, February 22, 2008. Was it luck we landed here or would have any place done? We will never know, but. Has smiled upon us. We stood by the non accumulation pact and left with our original four bags, everything else we had bought from. Garage sales) or one euro shops - and that went back to whence it came. The Big Year Out.
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The Big Year Out: Sahara Bound
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The Big Year Out. The Cleary's have taken year out to live and travel in Spain. This blog is to keep family and friends up to date with the whole adventure.warts and all. Saturday, March 8, 2008. Marrakesh grand taxi depot is not a great place for a picnic. We carved our way through the rank urine laden air and started haggling for a ride up over the high Atlas to Ourzazate (pronounced. The fattest man in Morocco finally secured our custom and we were off with our driver. Is truly the beast of burden and...
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The Big Year Out: January 2008
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The Big Year Out. The Cleary's have taken year out to live and travel in Spain. This blog is to keep family and friends up to date with the whole adventure.warts and all. Friday, January 25, 2008. Nowadays time rushes past, our friends are from a potpourri of backgrounds and cultures. What actually led us here I don't know but our story is not uncommon.people just seem to land here and not leave - the town is universally acknowledged as grotty but the magnetism is undeniable. The Big Year Out. The team c...
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The Big Year Out: Farewell España
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The Big Year Out. The Cleary's have taken year out to live and travel in Spain. This blog is to keep family and friends up to date with the whole adventure.warts and all. Sunday, March 30, 2008. The last four days in Spain were spent back in Barcelona. We got a nice apartment just behind Plaza Real. It was nice to be back when our Spanish was better and also nice to be back when the kids had grown up so much. We still love it. I think that's the beauty of travelling without agenda. You just never know.
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The Big Year Out: November 2007
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The Big Year Out. The Cleary's have taken year out to live and travel in Spain. This blog is to keep family and friends up to date with the whole adventure.warts and all. Sunday, November 25, 2007. More of the big trip. Off to Ronda on the road less travelled. The windy Sierra de Grazalema roads took us through grizzled cork forests to the scenic village of Grazalema. Of the gorge (a steep walk up), but this was well and truly made up by the place itself. Wow! Our two storey room was littered with. Mama ...
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The Big Year Out: December 2007
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The Big Year Out. The Cleary's have taken year out to live and travel in Spain. This blog is to keep family and friends up to date with the whole adventure.warts and all. Tuesday, December 25, 2007. Christmas started with our friends knocking on the door and wondering why weren't at the dinner that we'd been invited to.'but it's not Christmas! It doesn't matter here in Andalucia. And in the end it looked pretty christmassy. Will drag even the sickest from their bed. The Big Year Out. Links to this post.
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The Big Year Out: Phuket and Phi Phi
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The Big Year Out. The Cleary's have taken year out to live and travel in Spain. This blog is to keep family and friends up to date with the whole adventure.warts and all. Sunday, March 30, 2008. Phuket and Phi Phi. A couple of weeks for the Summer we missed. A chance to get back into the water and get the masks on. A time to relax in the sun.and of course the food! It didn't take long for the 'Harry Potter' stuff to start and Angus was fired up by day 2. I will never read Harry Potter, I hate him, NEVER.
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The Big Year Out: August 2007
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The Big Year Out. The Cleary's have taken year out to live and travel in Spain. This blog is to keep family and friends up to date with the whole adventure.warts and all. Saturday, August 18, 2007. A couple of weeks in Koh Samui. The Big Year Out. Links to this post. Wednesday, August 8, 2007. The Big Year Out. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Erg Chagaga Sahara Desert. After a day in the Sahara. Best Books Read So Far. The Time Travellers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.
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The Big Year Out: April 2008
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The Big Year Out. The Cleary's have taken year out to live and travel in Spain. This blog is to keep family and friends up to date with the whole adventure.warts and all. Sunday, April 6, 2008. Australia seemed very flat as we drove back down to Canberra, and after a few days it seems we were too. Culture shock they say but it will pass, it always does. However it was a treat to see the family and Dot and Dave too - we got thoroughly spoilt. So what was the best bit? So what did I learn? The Big Year Out.
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