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Living the Dream

Life in Cyprus and beyond: work, adventures and making sense of the world.
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#Camino

Something new for members. In 2016, I began the Camino Francés, a five hundred mile pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. The plan was to split the trek into five annual walking holidays. On camino, each day is a chapter and you dear members, will read them first.
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Living the Dream 92. Covid Checkpoints

The districts of Paphos and Limassol have been shut down. Nobody in, and nobody out. Despite being neighbours, no travel between them either. Compliance is assured by roadblocks, manned by the National Guard.
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Members 97. Mini, but not an iPhone

Egged on by the 1857 Slack, I ordered a new M1 Mac-mini last night. If you don’t follow Apple, the M1 is the new in-house chip. Effectively bringing all the technological innovation of the iPhone/iPad to the Mac.
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Members 96. Here we go again…

I take no pleasure in being proved right, but the US Election is going to be the most expensive no score-draw in history.
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Nutty November

Nothing confuses me more, than when people, in full possession of new information, make no effort to consider how that information pertains to their own actions.
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Members 95. Bloody Hashtags

Less than a week later, I was told that my car needed a new engine. You read that right. Not a new tyre or a new fan belt. A new engine. The mind boggles.
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Living the Dream 91. Shhh….

Fortune favours the brave, so they say, so here I am, tempting fate, and beating the reader down with clichés. A couple of anniversaries have quietly passed. It’s been a couple of years since we moved to Cyprus, and sadly, also a couple of years since we lost Nero.
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Members 94. Snorting Charlie

Faced with a bowl full of water, he placed both feet into it and attempted to kick water into his mouth. This may be the first time I have ever seen Mrs L speechless, mouth agape at the dripping chaos in his wake.
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