Hi, and welcome back to my travel journal. Today I will go through the primary cooking equipment we use in our campervan, alongside a few of the go-to dishes we make. There has been a lot of trial and error in creating the perfect cooking setup for the camper. We...
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...
Hi, and welcome back to my travel journal. This week I will do a cost breakdown of a twelve-day / eleven nights trip we took around Ireland in our campervan at the end of April. Previously on short trips or holidays, I never tracked finances. But, our plan for the...
Van conversion from a minibus to a campervan New website/new name Welcome back to my travel journal. Earlier this year, I migrated all of my content from the various websites I ran into one, mainly because I wanted to streamline all of my writing in one place and not...
After years of being a non-cyclist, Alan bought me my first bike as an adult eight years ago. It was the wrong bike for me, pretty, mint green with a cute basket. As heavy to cycle as they get, yet because of it, I discovered I like cycling. One trade-in later, I had...
Hi, before I even start this latest blog post, I have to apologise. My last post here was way back in April, just after we finished our van conversion, and somewhere along the way, we got so busy campervanning I couldn't find the time to sit down and get my thoughts...
Campervan Conversion Alice, yep, we finally named our campervan only a year after buying her as a nine-seater minibus. Officially she is an Opel Vivaro, and we finished the final conversion to a camper a week ago. Last year we did a temporary conversion to see what...
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 and happy Friday to everyone. As promised, I am exploring Clare Glen Forest with you this week. Late last autumn, we were up visiting family in Gilford Co Down when my hubby’s brother, Phillip, suggested we all go for a walk in a forest park near Tandragee (I have...