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Eat your heart out one and all.  Today WE had the most delectable lunch at Restaurant Patrick Guilbaud (@RPGuilbaud).  This Two Star Michelin restaurant is both discreet and reserved and ranks as [...]

(if the annual Parades are cancelled) There is a lot of talk about the Coronavirus and whether the St. Patrick’s Day Parades will be cancelled.  You could ask yourself how long is a piece of [...]

I am, of course, talking about the Chinese New Year for 2020, which begins this coming Saturday, 25th January. If you are feeling a little uneasy about these rodents you can take comfort in that [...]

In Ireland’s Hidden Heartlands a divine hotel, The Wineport Lodge, @Wineport_Lodge sits right on the edge of Lough Ree, part of the River Shannon’s network of glassy lakes. What sets [...]

For very good reasons I recently ended up taking the Ferry from Holyhead to Dublin. Due to ferry timetables it meant an overnight nearby so after much research The Sunnyside in the Victorian [...]

Last of the Summer Wine: The meteorological date for the start of autumn is 1 September. If you add that fact to the children being back at school then we can take it that it is officially [...]

A Cast of Thousands Imagine a Pageant spectacular featuring a cast of 5,500, massed choirs, orchestras, brass band, pipes and drums, alpine horns, over 40 cows and several horses.  Marry [...]

Listing best beaches is a problem as I haven’t visited a single beach this year; shame on me.  It is the middle of July and flip flops, togs and sun cream are now in the beach bag so no [...]

Hard to believe that Midsummer and the longest day of the year is this week.  The Summer Solstice, which is celebrated far and wide, is now upon us. I refuse to mention our summer weather as [...]

Switzerland has simply divine alpine flowers and Italy is known for their spectacular exotics such as Bougainvillea. France is famous for their massive fields of Lavender. Much farther afield in [...]