Plastic bottles are decimating ocean life

BACK TO Ireland to a countryside every bit as lush and lovely as Czech, and a sea as blue as the Med, in the Balearics, if not as warm. 

After three weeks of travelling, visiting family and friends, it feels good to be home. In addition, a small box of the year’s first chanterelle mushrooms awaited me in my mailbox, sent by my German friend in Kerry.

How lucky we are to live in an era of affordable airfares and can assuage our consciences by contributing to ecologically friendly initiatives that help undo the damage caused by our flight.