Mum and Son trip to Paddington’s Peru
When I was a little girl one of my favourite bed-time stories was about a polite bear from Peru, found on a platform at Paddington Station with a battered suitcase, a marmalade sandwich and […]
Destinations
Cruising the Baltic Sea with Celebrity and Teenagers!
Have you ever thought of a Baltic Cruise? Here’s my experience with Celebrity Cruises from last year. Our ship, aptly named Silhouette, casts a tall faint shadow on the dockside as we pull away from […]
Space Travel to Alabama on Newstalk’s The Hard Shoulder
Newstalk Space Camp in Huntsville Alabama April 4th 2019 This year is the fiftieth anniversary since man walked on the moon on July 20th 1969 and what better time to investigate Space Travel than being […]
Newstalk Heads North on Travel Thursday
Top Things to see in Northern Ireland on Newstalk With Ivan Yates on The Hard Shoulder March 14th 2019 Thinking of taking a trip up North this year? Northern Ireland is a […]
There’s nothing Corny about Cornwall
Cornwall on Newstalk March 6th 2019 The Hard Shoulder CORNWALL Are you looking for somewhere to go to for a lovely weekend, not too far from home? Cornwall has kept its olde world charm and […]
Sleepless in Seattle and you can fly direct from Dublin
The tall skinny Asian girl looks like she’s stepped out of the pages of a Manga Comic. Wearing thigh high socks and a black mini pinafore, she is so Seattle. With one quarter of the […]
Newstalk visits Salzburg this Travel Thursday on The Hard Shoulder
“Salzburg was seemingly created to conjure up a fairy-tale atmosphere during the most beautiful time of the year! The Christmas markets, Advent concerts and folk customs charm and mesmerize visitors to the magical City […]
Novel Travel on a South African Adventure
First Published in The Sunday Independent 26th August 2018 South Africa Limpopo and Johannesburg, Guateng I’m sitting under the Baobab Tree sipping a gin and tonic from the rim of a metal goblet. My […]
Foyle Maritime Festival Derry and a tour of The Walled City
Completed in 1618, the four-hundred-year-old Walls of Derry hold centuries of tales and sagas within and today is the only intact walled city on the islands of Ireland and Britain. I’m standing on the […]
Novel Travel to Amalfi Coast and Sorrento
On first approaching the Bay of Naples my mind’s eye conjures up the sirens beckoning Ulysses and his sailors to their downfall against the rugged cliffs that hug the Sorrento Peninsula. This land of myths […]