• Moving North – Dunfanaghy and Carrigart

    That summer arrived and we were on the move! The caravan was packed. Our destination was Donegal, near Downings and Carrigart, to a remote Caravan site, one of the few ones that did not have internet! Yes, when I told this to my kids, their response was much expected – DAD!! I wanted to be

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  • Thursday: Friends

    Thursday: Friends

    Friends are friends forever!There is an old Michael Smith song called “Friends,” and this song became like a farewell hymn for those who, after spending two years onboard the Logos 2, were leaving the ship and walking down the gangway, leaving behind a home and friends of a lifetime.I still meet with some of my

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  • WEDNESDAY ANNE FRANK

    WEDNESDAY ANNE FRANK

    The alarm on my phone went off at seven this morning, but I ignored it. I was . Then, in panic, I remembered I had a 10:45 ticket to Anne Frank’s House. So at 9:10, I was drinking coffee across the road from the hotel and got ready for a thirty-minute walk to the House.

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  • Tuesday is Vincent Van Gogh

    Today was something else; I visited the Vincent Van Gogh Museum, a dream come true. I have seen some of his work in Madrid and New York, and I feel a connection every time I stand in front of one of his paintings. He was the son of a Reformed Minister, a Christian who battled

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  • Monday morning

    Monday morning

    Knowing I needed to get up early for a flight to Amsterdam at 6:30 a.m. from Belfast City Airport, I could hardly sleep. Belfast was so quiet and calm, the night sky was full of stars, and a journey that would have taken me about forty minutes, I did it in thirty-nine minutes—a record! No,

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