2024-04-12 20:25
The last couple of years have been a bit quiet travel wise thanks to both covid and two kids! Due to a very last minute booking (4 days before leaving!) we decided to attempt our first fligh… Read More
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A travel blog with a cocktail twist. Notes and recommendations from our travels and living in Dublin.
2020-03-08 08:09
Having a baby in November, means by the time you’re ready to leave the house, the weather is pretty shit! Theres a couple of things to do indoors with a baby, but its not great –… Read More
2020-03-08 08:00
Going out for food with a baba can be a little stressful – especially when there is a buggy to be pushed around! I’ve noticed that it can be quite difficult to navigate it throug… Read More
2020-03-05 16:55
When there is actually some bit of sunshine in Dublin, its great to get outside! There are a couple of options below and will be updated as I go along and figure it all out!
Dublin Z… Read More
2020-01-26 10:33
After our few days in London at the NFL game we made our way down to Brighton for the last leg of babymoon!
Hotel
Malmaison Brighton
It took me ages to book the hotel as I… Read More
2020-01-25 13:43
Our final trip before the baba’s arrival was to an NFL game in the new spurs stadium and two days in London before getting the train down to Brighton for two days!
Hotel
The Meg… Read More
2019-09-10 08:31
We decided to take a little babymoon at the beginning of September and after a bit of research Port de Soller in Mallorca seemed the best place to go when you’re six months preggo and… Read More
2019-08-25 09:21
We booked a week off in August to do a little staycation/babymoon. We had a couple of Bluebook vouchers from the wedding so decided to put them to good use. We started off with two very diff… Read More
2019-08-17 13:31
I booked a weekend in Milan during one of the cheap Ryanair sales, and we were initially due to go in September but pushed it out to the first weekend of December. I had never been to Italy… Read More
2019-04-01 18:26
After a big year in 2018 with getting married, a pretty sweet honeymoon (India & Seychelles), getting our dog and buying our house – neither of us were in any mood to plan a holida… Read More
2018-11-02 21:43
While traveling to the US for work, I decided to spend a couple of days exploring San Francisco as I had never been before. After 2 days of seeing the city, I got the train down to Menlo Par… Read More
2018-08-21 21:01
Our first main destination on our road trip was Nashville, and we were all very excited to visit here and check out some music!
Hotel
Edge Midtown Apartment
It was a bit of an ordeal g… Read More
2018-08-21 20:28
Atlanta was the first stop on our 10 day road trip across the southern states of the US. We flew Delta direct to Atlanta and settled in with some prosecco and the nicest air-plane… Read More
2018-08-21 19:59
We decided to do some outlet shopping before checking in to our apartment in Memphis so I got to pick up a couple of things, yay! En route to the apartment in downtown we drove past Gracelan… Read More
2018-08-21 18:53
About an hour outside of New Orleans the stunning scenery started to appear – as we drove along the extremely long bridge, we got to look out at the surrounding swap that goes on as fa… Read More
2018-08-21 18:16
The last stop on our road trip was Charleston, South Carolina just a short drive north of Savannah
Hotel
Barksdale House
We stayed in this beautiful old house in central Charleston ju… Read More
2018-08-20 18:54
We checked out of our hotel in New Orleans at 6am, and away we set on our 10 hour drive across the state of Florida. The only time we stopped was for a cheeky Five Guys in Tallahassee and to… Read More
2018-07-02 19:35
We went a bit OTT on the final leg of our honeymoon and booked a semi-private island in the Seychelles to chill out after almost two weeks in India
JA Enchanted Island Resort
We booked into… Read More
2018-07-01 19:01
We left Udaipur to fly to the Seychelles for the last part of our honeymoon. En-route we decided to stop off in Mumbai for 24 hours – and now wish we had much more time here!
Our Priv… Read More
2018-07-01 08:19
After our visit to Jaipur, we had a 7 hour drive to Udaipur for our last 2 days of our tour. The drive was interesting, we got to see some very different places along the way. Our driver did… Read More
2018-07-01 07:47
After a very early morning visit to the Taj Mahal, we started on a 5 hour drive for our three day visit to Jaipur
On the drive, we stopped off to visit Chand Baori (where part of The Dark Kn… Read More
2018-05-03 18:52
1: 57 The Headline – With a huge selection of craft beer its heaven for any beer lover. One of the great things about here is the huge selection of Irish gin and whiskey along w… Read More
2018-04-22 09:19
We have always wanted to visit India and decided to spend two weeks of our honeymoon in late May.
Visa: The process of getting our visa was relevantly easy and cost approx. $50. You can app… Read More
2018-04-07 13:01
I’ve been thinking lately about all the places I tend to go when I’m going out for cocktails in town. Generally on a random Friday after work we would head somewhere for a few dr… Read More
2018-04-02 14:39
We booked a last minute night away over the Easter weekend to Mount Juliet Estate in Kilkenny, which I had always heard great things about but had never visited.
As the Leinster game was du… Read More
2018-03-28 21:48
Over the last few months, I have some how gone off gin and taken up whiskey. I even bought my own bottle (Sean was complaining I was stealing his), so I picked up a bottle of Arran 14 in the… Read More
2018-01-20 10:04
I’m just back from four days in London, and am super happy to be home from my first trip of 2018! This was my third visit to London in about 7 months, so I have decided to start doing… Read More
2017-12-24 10:58
2017 is about to (finally!) be over – it was a very long and super busy year, and one I will be happy to see the back of. It was also a year spent drinking cocktails, which is always a… Read More
2017-11-14 21:48
One of my Christmas presents for Sean last year was a trip to Leeds to see Alice Cooper. Neither of us had ever been to Leeds (or new of anything at all to do there) – so we look… Read More
2017-11-07 13:00
About 3 years ago I was in Germany with Sean and I tried Monkey 47 for the first time, and this kicked off my love of gin! Up until that point I had only tried Gordon’s with a bit of f… Read More
2017-10-01 09:06
I do love Afternoon Tea! I have been to a couple of places to celebrate engagements (mostly my own!), hen parties or just an excuse to have a bottle of champagne.
The Westin
I’… Read More
2017-09-10 15:48
Wednesdays are normally my working from home day – and as I’m shit at cooking I tend to pop to a local cafe for a few hours to stock up on caffeine and nice food! The joys of liv… Read More
2017-08-27 12:39
I’ve decided to make a list of some restaurants we have been to over the years and are some of my favorites!
Jo Burger – To me this is the best burger in Dublin, and I ha… Read More
2017-08-26 15:48
This was the first Saturday in a while where we had very little planned, so we decided to take a stroll into town and see where we would end up.
Dollard & Co.
Taking the idea from… Read More
2017-08-26 11:11
Central Park
In early June, Sean and I went to New York for 5 nights on a bit of a last minute trip. We booked into Yotel in Hell’s Kitchen which was a really funky hotels with cabin l… Read More
2017-08-15 17:54
Thanks to Ryanair, we got a cheeky August weekend in Krakow with Sean’s parents. We had a 7am Friday morning flight out and a 9pm flight back on the Sunday night which makes Krakow a… Read More
2017-06-19 21:16
I was planning on writing about New York day by day, but instead decided to break it up a little bit and bars is obviously the most important! We had 5 nights in New York in early June and… Read More
2017-03-26 11:02
The last leg of our road trip with a spur of the moment visit to Vegas for a couple of days before reaching the end of Route 66 on Santa Monica pier
Vegas:
After leaving the Grand Canyon be… Read More
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