Impact-Site-Verification: 4ef35935-9970-4015-a6b1-8327c50d7d73 An Irish writer named John Millington Synge is the reason I'm going to visit the Aran Islands this year. Curiously, though, I'd never heard of him until recently. Yet when I realised his inspiration was going to put me close to …
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Why travelling with kids is important essential!
I was born to travel.Well, maybe. It might be a combination of nature and nurture. My parents made a big deal about taking us travelling, as regular readers will know from trips like our six-month campervan tour of Europe when I was nine. We were just a normal average middle-class family, certainly …
Multicultural Christmas mash-up to maximise the fun
I've always loved Christmas, and have very fond memories of leaving out a can of beer and a couple of carrots on Christmas Eve, ready for Santa and his reindeer to stop by and fill my sack with exciting gifts. (Curiously, although the beer can was always empty the next morning, the carrots were …