A Simple Life of Luxury

Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means

Category: Travel

Auckland ITU World Champs Preparation 0

Lifestyle / Travel / Triathlon

Auckland ITU World Champs Preparation

~ Monday Oct. 15th – Ready to Go ~ We are all packed and ready to go on the biggest trip of our lives. Packing seems to have taken a while but we are now pretty much done and just want to go today, but we have one more day of work / school before...

Flight MH1 4

Lifestyle / Travel / Triathlon

Beating Jetlag

One week to go until the biggest race of my life – The ITU World Triathlon Championships in Auckland, and I’m still here in wet, grey, dreary West Wales. I won’t actually get to Auckland until Thursday afternoon and the race is early on Monday morning so I only have a few days to adjust...

Islay – The Journey Home 1

Family / Travel

Islay – The Journey Home

We headed off from the cottage at around 7am and dropped Pat off at the airport before boarding the ferry to Kennacraig… We were of course early at both the airport and the ferry terminal so had to wait around a little, but once back on the mainland we put our driving heads on and...