Holidaying while there’s a war on.

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With international air travel being so disrupted right now it’s not a good time to be planning trips that involve flying anywhere. Although it’s just places like Dubai, Tel Aviv, Kuwait etc that are more or less at a stand still, it all has a knock on effect and there will be delays and disruption all over the show for a while. We had intended going to Athens at the end of March for our daughter’s birthday, but we’ve changed tack and will be driving up to Donegal to stay in a little cottage in the Gaeltacht for three nights. I love the Gaeltacht. I love listening into people’s conversations in cafes and bars when they speak Irish, and I get to at least order food and drink in Irish even if I don’t get any full-blown conversations. And there’s the quiet and the wide open, empty spaces and the wildness of the sea and the smell of turf fires in the air. It’ll rain of course and the wind will howl. The food in restaurants will be awful and very expensive, but anyway.