I have wanted to get braces for years but, just like so many other people that I’ve spoken to, I had a bad experience with a dentist when I was younger and it did nothing short of scarring me for life. When I was about 12 my dentist (the same one that scarred me) said...
Today, July 13th 2016, is a pretty big milestone for us. It was this date three years ago, in 2013, that we left Ireland on a one way ticket to Thailand with a hope of staying there for a couple of months and figuring stuff out as time passed. To say that the time has...
To the outside world, us Irish are a crazy bunch and, for the most part, people absolutely love us for it. As Irish travel bloggers who get around quite a bit, we find that it can be a lot of fun telling people where we're from as it’s almost always met with the same...
After our three week stint travelling around Turkey, we flew to Athens with the intention of staying for 5 weeks. We hadn't originally planned on staying for as long as that, but about two weeks before leaving Turkey, we were lucky enough to land a house-sitting gig...
On February 23rd 2016, we went on the Istanbul Troy 15-day tour with RSD travel, and I’m writing this RSD Travel review to give other travellers my honest opinion on this tour agency. Warning: there’s a lot of ranting below! Have you ever seen something and thought,...
Back in 2008 we visited Krakow, Poland in February and again in June. On both occasions we visited Auschwitz. Why go twice you may be wondering? On our first visit in February, we couldn't get to visit the Birkenau section as it was closed off due to stormy weather...
With many of our blogger friends doing review posts for the year just gone by, we didn't want to be left out! After all, it is the start of a brand new year and if there was ever a time for reflection, optimism, planning and goal-setting for the future, there is no...
On August 4th 2015, we left the comforts of Chiang Mai to do a 10 week backpacking trip around India. Travelling in India was always on our agenda and having booked the flight from Bangkok to Mumbai last year when we were in Ecuador, there was no turning back. Given...
The date was 20th September, 2005. I was just after turning 27. I sat in my seat staring out the window of the plane on the runway of McLaren airport in Las Vegas. A huge grin was spread across my face. I'd just blown €5,000 playing poker over the past ten days in...
We arrived in India on 4th August and so far it has been a wild integration of emotions, smells, people and cultures, all rolled into a jam-packed two weeks. India has been a country that we’ve put off visiting for a number of years as a result of one thing or...