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Tag: Travel

  • Fringe Frivolities: A week at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival

    Going to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival was up there with our trip to go clubbing in Ibiza: bucket list material. So how did we make the most of this week at the Fringe? With grit, powernaps and careful planning. Where we stayed: 67 Brunswick St,Leith We booked an Airbnb a long way out of this…

  • An Irish Roadtrip: Literary Heaven and Great Craic

    16th to 31st July 2025 With Irish ancestry from both my mother and father, circumnavigating this Emerald Isle has long been on the bucket list and it definitely lived up to expectations. It is as green as you would imagine! It is also the home to some of the most inspirational writers in the Western…

  • Barcelona: Hot and cold

    In 2024, 94 million international visitors hit the shores of Spain. That figure is staggering especially when you realise the actual population of Spain is approximately 48 million people. It was facts like this along with the notorious water pistol shooting tourist hating protesters who decided to air their anti tourism grievances in the summer…

  • Lessons in Travel: Part 1

    Having spent 3 months travelling through South and Central America then Canada from February until the end of April, I’ve learnt more than a few things about the world, myself and others. And now that I’m about to embark on “part two” of this midlife gap year, I thought it would be timely to capture…

  • Buenos Aires is the new Barcelona

    Last summer in Barcelona, droves of unwitting tourists were squirted with water and told to ‘go home” by mass tourism protesters. The post COVID years have seen thousands of Australians rush to spend a few weeks having a hot Euro summer but it seems we are not all that wanted. So my suggestion to you…

  • Jet Lag: The Battle of the Body Clock

    Jet lag is the scourge of travel. We have spent the past four days battling to re-set our body clocks to South American time. Day one was just a fog as we arrived excitedly and despite the wooziness we battled through the afternoon and evening exploring the neighbourhood desperately trying to make it through to…

  • The packing dilemma

    How do you pack for 4 months, multiple climates, restricted baggage allowances and who knows how many stairs in the accomodation??! I haven’t started yet but have been thinking about it a lot, watched an unnecessary amount of inspirational reels and bought enough packing cubes for more bags than I will actually be taking. Sunday…

  • Not retiring

    So I’ve been officially unemployed for a month and under normal circumstances would have been back at work last week – eek! It is both liberating and scary. After thirty something years in teaching I am jumping off the hamster wheel to try living a life outside of the schoolyard. Don’t get me wrong, this…