Destination Blog

Ok, so it’s been 3 years since I wrote anything on this blog… what can I say?… “the novelty wears off”?… “times run away with me”?…  “I’ve been really busy with work”?… it doesn’t matter. We’ve all been quarantined and…

If you’ve ever thought it would be really fun to spend time rummaging through antique shops and reclamation warehouses with a seriously deep wallet, in order to furnish a property, then London hotels Hazlitt’s, and Batty Langley’s would make you…

Judging by the photographs in the visitor information booklets at Markree Castle hotel, the building was in a ruinous state and nothing short of a mess in the late 1980s. The elder brother of Charles Cooper, who had been offered…

Scones, strawberry jam, and clotted cream… what’s so controversial about that?!  Even as an Englishman I’ve never really understood the fascination with how you construct a cream tea, or whether or not there’s butter involved, or if they’re from Devon,…

What is it about Covent Garden that draws so many people here? How come we can look back through history and see that it seems to have had some kind of magnetic pull on visitors throughout the ages right from…

In England’s south-west, the site of the modern city of Bath has been an attraction since the Celtic period due to it’s thermal springs.  Ejecting water at a constant rate of just under 1.2 million litres per day, and at…

It’s almost that time of year again, and plenty of us have already started looking for gifts to send to Santa for December 25th even though November has barely begun but in only a couple of weeks from now, Christmas Markets will start to appear all over the UK in major towns, cities, and even in the grounds of country houses and stately homes.

Hopefully this itinerary doesn’t tired you out too much, but instead gives you an insight to this amazing city, which is small and easily navigable and yet has so much to offer. Galway also makes a great base for touring the west coast of Ireland with local attractions being a maximum of 2 hours drive away such as the famous Cliffs of Moher, The Burren, Connemara, and the Arran Islands (day trips are offered to all of these locations by various local operators – see your hotel reception/concierge for more details).

I’ve just spent 5 days in the beautifully quaint seaside town of St Ives, renting an apartment overlooking the harbour and taking in all the colour, quirkiness, Cornish charm and fresh sea air which this wonderful corner of England has to offer.