I get to travel again next week - yippee! - although it's only a quick trip, over to the Gold Coast in Queensland, the other side of Australia, to attend the Problogger conference. I haven't been to the Gold Coast since I was twelve and then it was an extremely quick look. I won't have much time to …
Ireland
Meeting the locals, the Inis Meain way
Easily one of my favourite things about travelling is meeting local people, which is one of the reasons I particularly loved living in Japan, Slovakia and Germany for a year or more each, because that was really the way to get to know the locals. On our recent trip to Ireland I cheated: I stayed …
New year, new travels: My plans for 2013
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 …