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Living the Dream - 14. On Camino

The Camino de Santiago. This post will, through the magic of wordpress, go live as I am finishing up a thirty two kilometre walk from Sahagún to Religeos. If you want to know more about the Camino, and why I’m walking it, click the ‘Camino’ category on the page
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Living the Dream - 13. Farewell

Farewell! I’m all out of weekends. Not that I have cancelled them, but I have no more weekends in England. As I write this, I am preparing for my walking trip in Spain, which runs from next Saturday morning until the following Saturday night, and the one after that
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Living the Dream -12. Four Weeks

I write this exactly four weeks before we fly to Cyprus. We are a tiny bit disappointed, knowing that we will be inspecting damage done by last week’s uninvited guests. (Robbed [https://stuartlennon.com/living-the-dream-11-robbed/]!) Friends secured the house for us immediately after the robbery, but the repairs are
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Living the Dream - 11. Robbed!

Ouch. The unexpected ring of the phone startled me. I spilled coffee onto my hand. It was before six. Who called a mobile before six in the morning? The ring had come from Margaret’s phone. I let it ring and dealt with the spill. Mags called Antonia back. Antonia
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Living the Dream - 10. Reality Bites

Reality has crept up. For months, emigrating has been exciting, distant and most importantly, theoretical. Something to talk about, plan for, even blog about. Then, all of a sudden, reality sidles in unseen, and chomps hard into my backside. By the time this post publishes, I’ll have twenty one
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Living the Dream - 9. Nero

Nero. The Easiest Decision. I wrote last week about the Hassle Hurricane [https://stuartlennon.com/living-the-dream-8-hassle-hurricane/] and my coping strategy. The to-do lists are still growing but light is discernible at the end of the tunnel. One of our first decisions, which I have not covered in an earlier post,
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Living the Dream - 8. Hassle Hurricane

In six weeks or so, we will be waking up in Cyprus. As my home [https://stuartlennon.com/living-the-dream-1-can-we-do-it/]. Oh, how I anticipate that day! Right now however, we are in the midst of a hassle hurricane. Hassle Each day, I wake to long to-do lists, endless dependencies and unforeseen
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Living the Dream - 7. Mobile phone

Mobile Phone “It’s time to renew your mobile phone contract.” Music to my ears. The mobile contract for Mags and I was expiring a couple of months before we are due to leave. Once or twice in the past I have retained contracts made useless by a change of
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