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,...
Hi again, this week I have been thinking about my favourite beaches in Co Galway, which I thought initially would be an easy task. Then I could have a wee chat about each of them. But, suddenly, the easy peasy idea seemed not as easy as I first considered. I happen to...
Hi there, and a happy Monday to everyone. So it's back to the weekly schedule after a fun weekend. Our wee springer has been ill, and keeping to a plan of regular structured activity seems to help her a lot. Thankfully, the knock-on effect is that I am now more...
Hi, and welcome to my Travel Journal and my first blog post of the New Year. There have been various incarnations of this blog over the past few years. But, I finally decided to give it a permanent home, right here. I am looking forward to blogging about my adventures...
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,...
So week one in Spain, and it was definitely a long week of traveling. After looking at all our options to travel here, because we wanted to bring our dog with us, we finally settled on a newly inaugurated Brittany ferry service taking us directly from Cork/Ringaskiddy...
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...
We frequently visit the North of Ireland because my hubby is from Banbridge in Co Down and one of our favourite spots to stop off for a walk with our dog Missy has to be the Hillsborough forest park and lake walk. Located in Hillsborough town, which is not too far...
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...