We visited Spike Island on June Bank Holiday Monday. We booked online with Fortress Spike Island, Cork and paid €65.90 for our family of 2 adults & 3 children. When booking online you choose a boat departure time, we chose 11am and returned at 2.30pm. (We booked Fota which is…
I spent a wet Wednesday afternoon in Dublin Zoo last week with the kids and some of their friends. This was our first post-covid visit so we were wondering what differences that there would be, and I thought you’d like to know too. As it turned out the day was…
We’ve holidayed in Park Albatros in Coastal Tuscany twice now, in 2012 with two small boys and in 2015 with 3 kids under 7. Given the age of our kids we did a lot of day trips that involved eating ice creams in different places, and very few museums. We are…
Travel and adventure starts at home, so last week I brought the boys (in fact, the extended family) to visit the main attraction in my home village, a place I worked for a month on a student job scheme in the 1990’s. Duncannon Fort is tucked in a prime position…
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…
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