Every January I create a vision board and it is placed in my office at eye level behind my laptop. I spend a couple of nights snipping and cutting photos from numerous magazines and newspapers, to keep me focused throughout the year. I always stick […]
I found myself on the Galway motorway twice in one week, the first trip was for a story I had pitched to a newspaper. I had come across a Facebook post advertising a free rest retreat for single parents in Connemara. I was intrigued and […]
I remember driving past the sign for Derry on a trip to Dundalk and Carlingford and noting it in my notepad in my head to revisit. Roll on a few months and I found myself looking at Airbnb for Derry spurred on by a friend […]
Before Covid, I had Iceland on a list of places I wanted to visit. I am a cold creature and an early morning person who enjoys sunrises from different locations but on doing my research, the sunrise in Reykjavik is 10 50 am in December. […]
As Dory says in Finding Nemo, “Just keep swimming, just keep swimming….” And that is exactly what many newcomers to sea swimming are continuing to do, well past the lockdowns and isolation periods of Covid 19. The sea has always been there, the sunrises and […]
My road trip with my eight-year-old twins exploring the Wild Atlantic Way. My plans to go to Donegal for St Patrick’s weekend this year were tainted by Covid and everything had to be canceled. I was devastated as it was my birthday also that weekend […]
As we near the end of the year, it should have been a slow one because of our current pandemic lifestyle but it went by in a COVID flash. Like most end-of-year feelings – we reflect. I got through my first year in business and […]