Our Personal Journey
A surprise trip to visit a small country in Western Europe. We would ascend and descend its mountainous landscape by train rather than the more extreme methods employed by the outdoor thrill seekers. Swiss air has a direct flight from Dublin to Zurich, so in a little over 2 hours you land in Switzerland’s largest…
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…
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…
