23 Oct 2015
Awful. All they ever seem to have is Lipton. I'd even take Twinings over Lipton.
We have our own Tetleys teabags (we got less picky in Australia) but this isn't realistic because we never have milk.
Stress....
22 Oct 2015
My first impression of Bangkok was quite good because there was only one taxi rank at the airport. Upon landing in Phuket we were greeted with approximately ten different taxi stan...
18 Oct 2015
Ko Yao Yai is a small island in Phang Nga Bay where we spent two scenic nights, and ate 2 immense dinner buffets. Our room had a view over the bay and we watched a spectacular suns...
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. ...