Note: Camping is not allowed on Aillebrack by order. Please take note of the sign. Thank you to John for contacting me with the updated information and sending the image. I originally wrote this post in August 2017, and many things have changed since then. Including a...
The village of Cong is just a short forty-five-minute drive from our house in Galway and on a sunny weekend it is a great place to visit for a short break. This summer we have endeavoured to make the most of any sunny weekends by camping. Our tent and accessories are...
The following weekend we headed, this time to the East side of Ireland, Donard in Co Wicklow, to be precise. Initially, I called a different campsite, but they were all booked up. They kindly gave us Nuala’s number; thankfully, they had space. Note: I would definitely...
Just five days after our last camping trip, read about it here. My summer camping plans with my dogs got drastically turned on its head. My older Spaniel, whom I thought was just slowing down because of her age, suddenly passed away before we even got to the second...
Road Trip I think impromptu trips are always the best. I love the idea of waking up on a given morning and, by the afternoon, deciding to go away camping for the weekend, just because! It’s a bit like being able to eat breakfast cereal for dinner just cause you’re an...
NOTE: I have an updated post about this beach and a few others in County Galway, including an interactive map. Click Here Apart from visiting forest parks, my all-time favourite places to visit are quiet beaches. Having lived most of my life on the West Coast of...
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...
During a sunny week in Galway City and County what better way to experience the beautiful weather and scenery than to go on a selection of walking trips. I have to say here now, I absolutely love walking. Having been an exercise phobic for most of my life discovering...
On a recent trip to Newcastle in Co Down we spent a rainy afternoon exploring Tollymore Forest Park, as an alternative to our Slieve Donard climb which got rained out the previous day (see post about that here). Tollymore forest park is very close to Newcastle and is...
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...