Our Personal Journey
We are not frequent holiday visitors to Spain, other than for long weekends or a bit of out of season sun. So we decided to take a quick trip and have a look at a couple of places of interest. Landed into Malaga and hired a car, SIXT seemed to be efficient enough and with…
Mexico is a perfect escape for the New Year, dry sunny and above all hot, a little cooler in Mexico City due to its altitude. Last minute change of plans as hurricane Otis flattened Acapulco on October 25th, so that was struck of the itinerary in favour of Manzanillo, some 500 miles along the pacific…
Malta is a small island sat in the Mediterranean 80Km south of Sicily, enjoys good weather for most of the year, and there are handy flights from Shannon, to the Capital Valletta. The international airport ( MLA), is south of the Capital and the main tourist resort areas around St Julian’s and Paceville. It was…
Tallinn, the Capital of Estonia has a population of less than 500,000, over a third Russian. It sits on the Baltic staring out at Helsinki across the Gulf of Finland, and is bordered to the South by Latvia the East, Russia. It has harsh winters but pleasant summers, we visited in May ahead of the…
Greece is well know for all the holiday islands dotted around its coastal area. However it does have its own Riviera, the well heeled Athenians, move out of the Capital during the intense heat of summer and head to the Eastern coast in particularly around Glyfada, where there are plenty of fine luxury resorts. However,…
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…
