Last week our family set off to Center Parcs in Longford Forest. The weekend before that, the launch event took place but the official opening of the park was Monday 29th July. It was a last minute break we booked to be honest. As I have been to Center Parcs myself as a child, I wanted my own kids to…
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Over the June Bank Holiday we decided to visit the kids grandparents last minute. We are aiming to go up to Sligo at least twice a year. It’s nice for the kids to have a change of scenery and explore the town they were born in.
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While we are here watching storm Hannah to arrive, I wanted to reflect on our last weekend adventure. The Easter weekend we had a little mini heat wave in Ireland and to embrace it, we decided to head to the zoo on Saturday… like so many others have planned.
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For some people it is back to normal school drop offs this week. In Ireland we still have a week of holidays and we are not back to routines until next week. However I only took off last week so the kids are enjoying their time off in creche this week. Matthew told me he missed his little friends he…
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Lately we had such lovely weather. Spring is truly in the air. I really hope it stays now. We had enough of the cold and wet weather in fairness. It’s time for some long lasting sunshine and lots of days out with the family.
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Two weekends ago me and my friend Sandra went off to Belfast for the weekend. We met there as she was traveling from Sligo and I was from Kildare. Prior to our trip we setup an itinerary where we would like to explore in Belfast. We met up at the Holiday Inn Express hotel which had free parking… heads up…
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The hotel we were staying in on our Staycation in Kerry was so nice, I figured it deserves its own post. We have stayed in many different hotels over the years. As a family of four it is very important to us to have a room with lots of space. Though you are only there to sleep, when you have…
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This post brings us to our last day of our staycation which was almost two weeks ago. I was a bit unwell over the last few days so wasn’t able to post anything on the blog. County Kerry feels like a different country altogether. It’s so calm and quiet.
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Day three of our Kerry adventure brought us to Dingle. A small port town in the South Western part of Ireland. I wanted to visit here for such a long time but the drive from Sligo, back when we still lived there, was five hours and it was just way too far. Thankfully from Tralee it’s only an hour.
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