About

Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain. Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.” Jack Kerouac

A travel blog where I write about my experiences walking the Camino de Santiago in Portugal and Spain. And the odd city break!

Created back in the summer of 2021 as an aid to learn how to build websites using 11ty (with Nunjucks & Tailwindcss) and Astro and to understand GitHub/Codeberg.

Using Skynet as my coding assistant.

An ex digital marketing person. Use to play a lot of volleyball. Retired. Ireland.

Interested in books, coffee, movies, music, open source, privacy, sports, technology, travel and the power of walking.

Credits:

cameronfrench.co | This website takes it's design inspiration from Cameron's website.

11ty Font Awesome SVG Plugin | A very helpful solution for resizing Font Awesome icons.

Geist Sans | This website's font is Geist Sans and is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

Category and Tag Pages with Eleventy | Thanks Josh for this clever solution for building categories and tags in 11ty.

Eleventy Excellent | Lene's 11ty theme is great inspiration to start coding a SSG blog using 11ty. It's a great starter theme too!

Adding Hardcover.app Data to Eleventy | Thanks Raymond for this solution on how to add Hardcover.app book data to Eleventy using Hardcover's api.