On our recent trip to Copenhagen, a lot of our time was spent wandering around the city's green spaces. Copenhagen is blessed with a number of gardens and parks and these are places we tend to visit more and more when we go on holiday. The Danish word for garden is 'Have' , which naturally…
Hello ! How is everyone? I've been a little absent round here of late, but for good reason. I've been on holiday in Copenhagen. Fancy taking a little tour around this wonderful city? Ok, then come with me... As a first time visitor, I wasn't sure what to expect. But, as a lover of Nordic…
On the Sunday of our little trip Into the West, we decided to head further north along the Fanad peninsula in Donegal to Port Salon. Being a traveller of an incidental nature, I hadn't really looked at the route. After checking out of our hotel, we just got into our car and followed the road signs.…
Last weekend we headed west for a short weekend break. Our destination was Rathmullan, a small town in Donegal which forms part of the Wild Atlantic Way, a 2500km stretch of coastline along Ireland's west coast from the county of Donegal to Cork. It's a part of the world I am less familiar with but…
A few blog posts ago I mentioned that during our time off in July we had opted for a 'staycation'. We do normally venture further afield but this year, somehow, we decided to stay at home. That didn't mean we had to be boring though and as we have very luckily stayed in most of…
As I mentioned in an earlier post, we had the chance to escape to the country a few weeks ago, thankfully on a weekend when the sun shone pretty much the whole time ! I thought I would share some pictures of the beautiful place we stayed in, Birch Cottage, an off grid self catering cottage…
Slightly belatedly, I thought I would share some details on our final day in Berlin and the sights we took in before flying home to Belfast. We had discovered that the Berlin Wall Memorial was a stone's throw from our hotel in Berlin Mitte and within a five minute walk after breakfast we had arrived there.…
