Travel
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 […]
With only a few hours of sleep after my overnight Philly to London flight, I was at brunch trying to get on London time. While waiting for my food, my eyes scanned the crowded restaurant as the rain steadily fell outside. With a good mix of couples, families and girlfriends, […]
The FriFotos theme this week is “Souvenirs”. When I first started traveling, I bought a souvenir for everyone in my life – friends, family and co-workers. I had friends who collected shot glasses, magnets and postcards. Over the years as my packing got better and bag got smaller, the amount […]
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 […]
There is a reason I’ve never stayed at a Doubletree Hotel – I’m a cookie addict! The signature amenity of the Doubletree chain is the free cookie at check-in (or as I learned, a free cookie every time you ask at The Morrison Hotel) and according to the twitter gods […]
When i redeemed my British Airways’ Avios points for an Aer Lingus business class ticket to Dublin from Boston, I was excited for my first flight with the Irish airline. I did need to reposition myself from Philly for the flight and luckily found a cheaper USAirways ticket (now AA) […]
For the past few years, I’ve decided to skip the walking tour and see the city by bike. Given that I often trip over my feet walking straight, a bike tour is always fraught with potential danger (for me at least) – there are pedestrians, motor vehicles, curbs, trolley tracks […]