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…
Trip to Krakow Back in November, my partner and I were invited by my father and step-mother to travel to Poland, with an aim of going to Auschwitz. It was to be a short weekend break, flying out the Friday and landing back the Sunday evening. The trip out was a bit of a rush….
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…
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…
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,…
