Eco-Friendly Family Life
What better time than a roadtrip to snack?
And what better time to try out some NEW foods to snack on than after having just moved to a new country, full of new foods?
On a recent drive from Bristol to Manchester, I took the opportunity handed to me and tested out some new roadtrip snacks of course.
Three weeks in the UK and Ireland.
Wow – what an experience.
I fell in love with a new part of the world, and I fell in love with a guy (Whoops, sorry Heart).
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As with when I visited Kesh, in Northern Ireland, earlier on my road trip, my trip south to Cornwall was a special one.
As I’d explored my paternal family history in Kesh, now I was to explore my maternal family history in Carbis Bay, a gorgeous – but gloomy on the days we were there – seaside town in England’s south.
Continue reading “A startling revelation in my family history – Carbis Bay, Cornwall”
The environment is a topic of conversation very close to my heart.
I was always involved with the “green” groups at high school, and went on to continue those interest groups in the years after.
I’ve taken many steps myself to reduce my impact on the environment, and I care a lot about protecting our planet from destruction.
Therefore it was a no-brainer that I would visit the Eden Project while I was in Cornwall, England.
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Guinness and Viking History: Two essential parts of Dublin.
Two parts of which I focused myself on during my travel in the Irish capital.
Climbing up a castle to lean over a cavity backwards in order to kiss a dirty old stone, hoping for a gift of eloquence – sounds like a normal thing to do, doesn’t it?
At Blarney Castle, near Cork in Ireland, it is.
On the western coast of Ireland, there is a little touch of what I imagine to be heaven.
The Cliffs of Moher were undoubtedly my favourite sight that my eyes beheld on my journey through Ireland and the United Kingdom.
Seriously, I fell deeply in love with this place – I could have built a little shack into a rocky hovel of the cliff face and lived there happily ever after.
It felt like the place of fairytales.
We took the “ordinary” path for travellers doing a road trip across from Scotland to Ireland.
An early morning departure from Glasgow, driving down the highways to Cairnryan; ferry across from Cairnryan to Belfast; One night in Belfast then a trip to the Giants Causeway as we moved south.
An “ordinary” path filled with extraordinary sights, however.
Welcome to one of the most beautiful places on earth (in my official opinion): The Giants Causeway.
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What do you think of when someone mentions the Scottish Highlands?
Loch Ness, the home of Nessie? Well, that’s a fair call – the Loch Ness is a particularly popular attraction of Scotland’s northern region.
However, what I came to find during my time there is that the Scottish Highlands are certainly not just the Loch Ness – Oh no, this Scottish region is so much more than that.
The Loch Ness is just one tiny part of it.
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As we moved into Scotland, we officially passed into my 30th country visited in the world.
We also moved into one of the most beautiful and interesting countries I’ve ever visited, yet I felt completely at home.
It was a sentiment I felt the whole way through my road trip in the UK and Ireland, but it wasn’t until I got to Edinburgh that I realised what that niggling feeling in my stomach was: It was ease, and comfort.
Two feelings that come when you feel a strong attachment to a country or region.
Two feelings I was feeling very strongly.
Continue reading “Going Harry Potter crazy in Edinburgh, Scotland”