Welcome to My Suitcase Diaries, where hopefully my travels will inspire you to use what precious holiday time you have to explore the world and give you something to daydream about on cold, rainy days! I know that’s what I do! I currently work in the education sector and my holidays are limited to the usual… Read More Welcome to My Suitcase Diaries
These post lockdown, pandemic times are the perfect opportunity to explore this island and stay closer to home. I know I’ve said it before but Ireland has so much to offer. A few days discovering (or rediscovering) our Wild Atlantic Way, Ancient East, Hidden Heartlands or Northern Coast is never enough time. The Banner County… Read More Exploring Clare’s Breathtaking Coastline and Beyond.
I was contacted recently by Context Travel to review one of their Dublin based tours. Since I have been enjoying staycations more and more, over the past few months, and it’s fun being a tourist in your own city I thought let’s go. Full disclosure this tour was a gift and all opinions are my… Read More Review: Context Travel Book of Kells Tour, Dublin
I had gotten a little lax in my mission to explore more of Ireland. So to remedy that, last weekend, I decided to list the places I had been dying to see in the Sunny South East and start checking them off. Wexford is just over an hour from Dublin (obviously depending on your departure… Read More Wexford Weekend Wanders
Ireland is a stunner of a country. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Even when it is at its wildest with vertical rain cascading down (seemingly trying to get in the window) there is a beauty there. On a recent trip to Sligo, on the west coast, I explored areas I had… Read More Sligo Photo Diary – Wild Atlantic Way Adventures
I’m sure if you’ve taken one look at my Instagram feed you’ve come to the speedy realisation that I have a mild obsession with Scotland and Edinburgh in particular. Having been four times in two years and already hankering to go back I feel like this city has seeped into my very soul. The overwhelming… Read More 15 Unmissables in Edinburgh
Have you got a tropical island on your bucket list? Is it somewhere you’ve relegated to the lottery win destinations? Places like the Caribbean, Maldives, Seychelles seem to be the stuff of daydreams but why should they be? I once made a list of places I’d like to visit ‘one day’ and honestly, I never… Read More A Guide to Visiting the Seychelles
‘Instead of shores where ocean beats, I hear the ebb and flow of streets’ Glasgow by Alexander Smith In the past year, I have wanted to immerse myself in as much Scottish landscape and culture as I can. So a trip to the ‘Dear Green Place’ was inevitable. I had heard the usual commentary like,… Read More Glasgow City Break: 11 Must dos
I had heard many people say that when you visit Portugal’s big cities you fall into one of two camps. You either love Porto or Lisbon. It seems loving the two equally was not an option and I was eager to find out which fate was to befall me. The verdict is in. Lisbon won.… Read More Your Guide to Lisbon’s Instagram Spots
So you have planned your visit to Croatia and know you want to stop by some cities and the islands, obviously. What else shouldn’t you miss as you journey along the Dalmatian coastline? Well, Plitvice Lakes National Park for one. Plitvice Lakes is an almost 300sq km forest park in Croatia. Enjoying its own microclimate… Read More Plitvice Lakes National Park Photo Diary
I seem to be in the absolute minority of the population who had never heard of Hvar Island before this summer’s trip. Once I had decided to visit it people popped up out of the woodwork (like whack-a-moles) acknowledging that they too had been there, or knew someone who had. So, it was just me then.… Read More Hvar Island – What You Need to Know Before You Go
