It’s an annual tradition now, my guide to holidaying around Duncannon and the Hook Peninsula. So, without further ado here’s what’s happening this year: From my previous posts you know that in my opinion Duncannon, my home village is near idyllic and that the Hook Peninsula is one of the…
**2019: You can find an update version of this post HERE – this post is from 2016 so may be out of date** Someone found my blog a few weeks ago by googling “things to do in Curracloe when it’s wet and windy” and I thought I should give the…
It might be Baltic out but it’s still the May Bank Holiday weekend, and judging by the traffic on the n11 tonight you must all have come to lovely Wexford for the weekend. If you have here’s a few things to do: Wells House have a Knights and Princesses Party…
In the last seven years we’ve stayed in hotels many times with the kids. (Mostly thanks to the magical SuperValu Getaway breaks promotion, sometimes thanks to the Heatons one) Our first time Ciarán was weeks old and slept in our enormous super-king bed. Easy. The next he was a year…
Our kids are very lucky, their grandparents live in very interesting places, so they get to see a lot of the country just by visiting them. During the Easter holidays in 2014 we took the kids to visit “Grandad in Belfast”(that’s what they always call him, rejecting his first…
Every year someone tells me that they’ve booked a holiday in Wexford and asks what there is to do down here. As a lucky resident of one of Ireland’s most popular family holiday destination’s I’m always happy to share some local knowledge. Things change season by season and year by…
Living in North Wexford we often find ourselves heading north on the N11 at the weekend to check on daytrips to County Wicklow. Wicklow is lush and green, dotted with mountains and lakes, it’s not called the Garden of Ireland for nothing. It’s also easily accessible (even easier since the…
Our Holidays 2015- Park Albatros, Tuscany, Italy We booked our summer holiday before Christmas last year (in fact it was the year before), at that crazy busy time of year, but when the 30% off discounts were expiring. We’d had such a great holiday the last time that we were…
How to have a stress free plane journey to your holiday destination with kids in tow (or not) 1. Pack everything the night before. No last minute looking for chargers that seem to have disappeared overnight. (ahem) 2. Don’t wear your runners you bring with you in case your dodgy…
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