Our Personal Journey
Vienna, Austria’s capital, lies in the country’s east on the Danube River. Its artistic and intellectual legacy was shaped by residents including Mozart, Beethoven and Sigmund Freud. The city is also known for its Imperial palaces, including Schönbrunn, the Habsburgs’ summer residence. We decided to visit in early summer ahead of the crowds and took…
Possibly an unlikely New Year venue, but we do live in surreal times in AD 2021, the fact or fantasy of Covid has made travel exceptionally demanding and leaving the cocooned Island of Ireland is not for the faint hearted or even seasoned traveler currently. So instead of the airport we headed directly to Belfast…
Back on the move after Covid lockdowns 2021 ! To & From Athens International Airport Eleftherios Venizelos, ( AIA ) Athens has an odd climate, oppressively hot in the summer months, but pleasant either side with a wet winter. We arrived in late September a perfect compromise. Best option was a Ryanair flight to the…
Having traveled the world we are delighted to share some of our favourite hotels experienced on our travels from India to USA & back in Ireland ! Four Season’s Resort Costa Rica at Peninsula Papagayo, our beachside bed! Taj Palace Hotel, New Delhi, India, ringing in NYE ! St Regis Hotel Nikolskaya, Moscow where we celebrated NY…
FOUR SEASONS RESORT COSTA RICA AT PENINSULA PAPAGAYOCosta Rica is a rugged, rainforested Central American country with coastlines on the Caribbean and Pacific, it is a peaceful small democracy, barely 200 miles wide and 300 miles long, it is sandwiched between Panama to the South and Guatemala to the North, Its capital, San Jose, is…
To & From: San Diego is a long haul destination with no direct flights out of Dublin. We decided to visit whilst in California, having flown to LA and after spending a week in Palm Springs, drove around the Mt San Jacinto State Park and through the Palomar mountains to arrive a couple of hours…
To & From: We travelled to Florida over a dozen times between 2004 and 2008, benefitting or perhaps justifying owning a property at Southern Dunes Golf and Country club, a gated community in Haines City roughly a 15 minutes drive South of Kissimmee. See useful link 1. Flights to Orlando are many and varied, some…
To and From: St Petersburg and its satellite towns form a horse shoe shaped loop around the head of the Gulf of Finland at the Eastern end of the Baltic Sea, closer to Helsinki than Moscow it was the Imperial Capital for two centuries, and is the second largest city in Russia, and whilst being…
To & From: There are no direct flights to Dakar the Capital of Senegal from Dublin, the most logical is via Lisbon, but we actually chose a more complex route which in hindsight may not have been the most logical. We chose Turkish Airlines, which flew via Istanbul, but unbeknown to us at time of…
To & From : Boston is such an easy City to visit, a little over 7 hours out and 6 back, the -5 GMT allows for a long weekend visit, these days it would almost be a commute option, Aer Lingus flight returns are amongst the first to arrive in Dublin around 5 am. Frequent…
