The Lavaux Vineyard Terraces are in Switzerland along the shores of Lake Geneva. Yes. Vineyards in Switzerland. I bet you don’t think of vineyards or wine when you think of Switzerland. Admit it. You think of snow-capped mountains, half-timbered houses, neutrality, precise watches, on time trains, Swiss bank accounts, Heidi and tasty Swiss chocolate. I…
Oh, the Irish pub. It’s one of those iconic places that’s on everyone’s list as they travel to Ireland. “We do want to go to the Dingle Peninsula, but we also want to be sure we go to a pub,” folks say as we plan their trip. This is soooo not a problem. For those…
The National Parks in Europe don’t get nearly the attention that the parks in the USA and Canada get. And I think this is a shame because there are so many unique and beautiful parks in Europe. I wrote a post on a few National Parks in Europe a few years ago. So now I…
Dingle, Ireland is both a town and a peninsula. And most folks who visit Dingle make the drive around the peninsula and stay in the town for at least one or 2 nights. Now I have some strong opinions on Dingle — both the town and the peninsula — which I’ll get to at the…
What can you expect from travel in the new year? What are the travel trends for 2019? Well, as usual it’s a mixed bag of good and bad. I prefer to focus on the good. But that’s because I’m a glass half full kind of gal. So I’m going to start with a bit of…
For the last post of 2018 I thought I’d share some of my favorite travel moments from the journey I took earlier this year to Ireland and Wales. There were so many wonderful travel moments that I wasn’t quite sure where to begin. Some of my favorite moments were visiting the monastic settlement at Clonmacnoise…
