15 Oct 2015
There is a world of difference between what you get when you Google Phuket and what you get when you go there. The airport is in the North, and we were staying in Kata, in the Sout...
12 Oct 2015
A few people told me not to bother with Singapore, as it was just a big city. What they didn't say was that it's a big city that looks like a futuristic utopia straight out of pret...
7 Oct 2015
It was with an overwhelming amount of organisation (and some sadness) that we finally left Melbourne. Only now do I appreciate the value of having parents to leave all your stuff with so you don't have to deal with it. When we left Ireland, packing was traumatic, but at least I didn't have to decide what to do about 3 half empty bottles of shampoo. It seems such a waste to throw them away....
4 Oct 2015
Last year we got a tour bus from Melbourne to the Twelve Apostles via the Great Ocean Road. You can read about it here, when I was a lot less verbose in my blog posts. We really wa...
22 Sept 2015
When I lived in Galway I'd often drive across the width of Ireland to Wicklow for the weekend. It was lengthy and boring. What I didn't realise was that there's no such thing as a ...
4 Sept 2015
In classic Irish fashion, my friend Laura decided to come to Australia too. Her presence, combined with my rather flexible working hours AND the fact that I'm leaving soon, mean I ...
8 Aug 2015
Luckily on this site I have a handy tool called Akismet which identifies spam and puts it away out of sight, so I never have to deal with it. Occasionally for laughs I have a read through the spam folder anyway. Here are some recent gems:
Sharyl found enlightenment on my HP laptop rant, and helpfully pointed out some Google search terms. Funnily enough when I google...
1 Aug 2015
"You'll hate skiing," everyone told me. Incessantly. Why is everyone so determined that I would hate skiing? Is it my general dislike for exercise? The outdoors? Fun? Well I ignore...
27 Jul 2015
I have some Middletons living in Moteuka, North of the South island, so naturally we decided to impose ourselves upon their hospitality, demanding food and wifi and entertainment. ...
23 Jul 2015
Wellington will forever be ingrained in my mind as "The city where I didn't get to try an Occulus Rift".
I've wanted to try out virtual reality ever since I was 10 and RTE used ...
19 Jul 2015
In spite of the fact that we do a lot of travelling, Dan and I never seem to learn anything. Here's my number one tip for aspiring travellers: Plan Everything. Do not assume you'll...
18 Jul 2015
Ignoring the fact that I lived in Ireland for 25 years and never visited France, which you can literally drive to, we figured it would seem ridiculous to not visit New Zealand whil...