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Almost there – making landfall in Dublin…… (evening, November 2021) For Debbie’s One Word Sunday
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A day or two in Trieste – you’ll LOVE this unItalian Italian city!!
It’s hard to put your finger on it – you know you’re in Italy but it’s not quite like her other cities. Italian is spoken in the streets but not by everyone. Goulash or strudel is as likely to pop up on your menu as is gnocchi or pizza. And then there is the architecture […]
Read MoreSlovenia – Mountain to City to Sea – a bit of everything in a Week
It does’t have to be a week of course – you’d see a lot over a long weekend – or come and stay forever! You can visit many tourist highlights as daytrips from Ljubliana but it’s always nice to have a sleepover isn’t it. The distances on this itinerary aren’t huge and it’s all on […]
Read MoreDiscovering Ljubljana – an Amble through a Beautiful Capital City.
So – are you one of the lucky ones?…… ……living in a European country with direct flights to Slovenia? Well, if so, I truly hope you’ve already made that trip…. and, if you have, that you stopped over for a while at least in its capital city. For us Irish, the need for connected flights, […]
Read MoreA day off grid – revisiting Station Island
Back in the day, the annual family summer vacation to Donegal was punctuated by the disappearance of my dad on his three day trip to the rather ominous sounding St Patrick’s Purgatory. This ancient pilgrimage site occupies Station Island on Lough Derg – straddling the border counties of Donegal and Fermanagh. A monastic site can be dated back to the […]
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