Our Personal Journey
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…
GETTING there … Plenty of flight options to the Canary Islands, from the three main airports in Ireland, we have been to the four well known tourist islands many times over the years and they are indistinct in many instances. They all share a constant year round sunny climate, nothing extreme as in mainland Spain,…
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…
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…
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 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: Dallas is perhaps an odd location for a visit unless you have an interest in JFK which we are big fans, the famed TV drama, or more unlikely you wish to relive a cattle drive featuring cowboys and a herd of Longhorn steer. Dallas, Texas is the state’s third most populous city,…
To & From: The Dominican Republic is a picture perfect Caribbean island that shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti to the west. It’s known for its beautiful beaches, fabulous resorts, golfing and year round sunshine. Its terrain comprises rainforest, savannah and highlands, including Pico Duarte, the Caribbean’s tallest mountain. Notably days are short with…
