If you’ve ever been on Instagram you’ll know that lavender fields are very popular places to take photographs. Wexford Lavender Farm ticks this box but goes way beyond to provide a lovely day out for the family. We go here often as it’s not too far from where we live…
I like to get in early with booking my holidays, I love to have something to look forward to. Last year we booked almost a year in advance, so as soon as we got home from Bella Italia this year (OK, full disclosure I may have googled from the deck…
Over the Christmas Holidays each year we get to thinking about the next big chunk of time that we’ll have off and get out the holiday brochures or start googling. Since we’ve had kids we’ve gone abroad on holidays three times (to Italy twice and Portugal once, read all about them in the…
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…
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…
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…
It’s July, technically summer but here on the western fringes of Europe it’s 13 degrees and raining. We are just back from holiday, our first trip abroad in three years (more about that in later blogposts). Earlier this week in Italy we had temperatures of 35 degrees…
– Six Things to Do in Connemara with Kids. In 2014 we spent two weeks in Connemara as our family holiday. Our kids were 1, 3 and 5 and we rented this house in Clifden. 1. Kylemore Abbey I was surprised how much we enjoyed Kylemore Abbey, we didn’t…
Our last “proper” family holiday was in sunny Italy in 2012. Last year we had 2 night break in West Cork with a tiny baby, and this year we’d decided to stay in Ireland again and to head west to Connemara. (I have a lot more on that to share…
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