Hi, and welcome to another instalment of my Travel Journal. This one is going to be a little different in tone. When I think of Valentia Island, I see it as a place I feel rather than a series of boxes I tick. In this week's post, I want to capture the essence of the...
Knockma Forest Trail Hi, and welcome back to another weekly post here on My Travel Journal. This time I am revisiting one of our most recent trips to the Knockma Forest Trail, which we did in February. Knockma is approximately a thirty-five-minute drive from Galway,...
Hi, and welcome back to my weekly blog post. This week I am revisiting a trip we took to Keem Bay in Achill during one of the periods between lockdowns in Ireland last year. Having visited many occasions, I had always wanted to hike up to the derelict lookout post on...
Hi there, the week has been so busy that I am just finishing this blog post on our latest short trip. Last weekend Alan had a few extra days off, and we decided to head away just for two nights. It’s funny how this type of vacation would have been the norm for us,...
From July through to September 2019, we, that being my husband, myself, and our twelve-year-old Springer Spaniel, spent two months in the city of Leon, in the North of Spain. During the last fortnight of our stay, we visited a few of the vast amount of outdoor walks,...
I spend most of my working week with my head stuck in a computer. Which means at this time of the year, with the shorter days, I definitely don't get enough walking done in the evenings. So when the weekends come around I take every opportunity to spend most of them...
It has been a while since we had a small adventure, and it has definitely been missed. Over the past few weeks we have been de-cluttering the stuff in our lives, just items we have hung onto for really no reason. So the last few weekends have been all about, donating,...
Slieve Donard, the highest peak in the Mourne Mountains made famous by the Percy French song and until recently my nemesis (obviously being a bit dramatic here). I finally reached the top of Slieve Donard on an absolutely stunning day two weeks ago and it was worth...
Hanging Bridges of Los Cahorros Monachil Over the last fortnight we spent eight days traveling around Granada, Malaga and the coast, lots of driving and walking along beaches, through towns, villages and some natural trails in the Sierra Nevada. Even though we had...
Having never climbed any mountains before this year, I definitely made up for it during the month of March. Every weekend we climbed a mountain, as listed below, and I have linked each mountain to the corresponding blog post here on my website. March 4th Slieve...