I’ve never climbed a tree, a fence or the monkey bars in my childhood. As a kid in the city, I walked everywhere and played “Freedom” which involved running like crazy to avoid being caught. Climbing a bridge was never something I thought possible but for my birthday visit to […]
If you were to walk into most Pennsylvania state controlled liquor stores, the “Australian” wine section is about 90% Yellow Tail. While the “premium section” has a few Australian wines, you can imagine how exciting it has been over the years to visit wineries in Australia on my holidays. My […]
As I look back on the Australia trip, the stars seemed to align for my day on The Great Ocean Road (the GOR) – the weather began sunny and bright on the cool side. When I was researching “things to do in Melbourne”, driving The Great Ocean Road was at […]
Christmas Markets have become quite popular in the past few years – it seems that every town, city, etc. has one (or ten) available for your pleasure – whether that is in the form of mulled wine, food, dessert, music, entertainment, shopping or a combination of all of the above. […]
Watching the movie “The Angels’ Share” (posted here) provided a bit of insight into Scottish whisky. Prior to that my only knowledge of whiskey was drinking whiskey sours. With my visit to Dublin, I was curious to learn more about whiskey with a visit to the Jameson Irish Whiskey Distillery in […]
It takes a fantastic guide with personality, a good mix of tourists and a sense of humor to turn a really lousy weather day into a good experience. Choosing the Wild Wicklow Tour in Dublin as one of my conference options (provided free to attendees, normally 28 Euro), I was […]
A photo tour may not be something you ever thought of adding to your “must do” vacation list but you should definitely add it. While some photo tours are instructional and require special cameras and tripods as you learn technique, other tours are educational and fun. Dublin at Night with […]
Attending the TBEX Conference in Dublin, attendees were offered complimentary tours/experiences during our stay. Keeping with my new “see the city by bike tour” credo, I signed up for a bike tour (The Taste of Dublin) with See Dublin by Bike. It had rained for most of the week in […]
London is full of pubs and how you choose which one to go to can be as simple as “there is a pub” or as complicated as you make it. But sometimes, you don’t choose the pub, the universe leads you there instead. For me and UK pubs, the universe […]
On my first visit to Dublin, more than fifteen years ago, my friend and I did the Guinness tour. Christine was thrilled to have a pint in Ireland, me, not so much as I didn’t drink beer then (yes, I know, Guinness is not beer – Guinness is in it’s […]