Posted on June 30, 2010 by Fiona Hilliard

Image via Wikipedia Thinking of a weekend break in Dublin but not quite sure about when to pack your bags? You could do a lot worse than the weekend of September 23rd to September 26th 2010… Why? Well, back by popular demand is Arthur’s Day. Arthur’s Day “To Arthur!!!!” OK, so we’re no longer celebrating [...]

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Fiona Hilliard

Image by bazylek100 via Flickr Yesss…sweet vindication…as if to prove me right about staycations being so ‘last year’, Tesco has just released results from its latest Travel Money survey. The good news is… Holiday hotspots in Turkey and Cyprus work out cheaper for a UK family of four than a stay on the Sussex Coast [...]

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Fiona Hilliard

Image via CrunchBase The ‘staycation’ which saw millions of UK and Ireland holidaymakers staying put in the country for their holidays seems to have taken a bit of a backseat this year. According to Amazon.co.uk, travel guide books about Orlando, Florida and Morocco have been flying off the shelves in recent weeks. The website published [...]

Posted on June 25, 2010 by Fiona Hilliard

Image via Wikipedia Ryanair is changing its baggage rules. AGAIN.  I can hardly keep up. So what is it this time? Well, they’re doing us passengers a big favour by letting us check-in a whole 20kg instead of 15kg for our first piece of luggage. But it being Ryanair, there is of course a sting [...]

Posted on June 24, 2010 by Fiona Hilliard

Tacky they may be, but at the end of the day these are the dodgy places (and photos) you’ll want to share with all your Facebook friends. You know it! Hobbit House, Downtown Manila, The Philippines For over 35 years, Jim Turner, a former US Peace Corps volunteer has been running Manila’s ‘Hobbit House’, a JRR [...]

Posted on June 23, 2010 by Fiona Hilliard

Image via Wikipedia   Writing this blog, I’m forever looking at scenic drive guides, road-trip ideas and recommended itineraries but I have to say I’m pretty impressed with the Irish Independent’s latest series of travel articles that examine how to get off the beaten track from Ireland’s newest motorways. It’s a really fresh approach to a rather [...]