Category: Travels

We visit the Colosseum. Follow the tips to get the best experience with family in an otherwise crowded place.

New and clean rooms, shared kitchen with all the utensils and great vibe, this is our recommended place to stay in Rome.

Copy this 5 day Rome Itinerary of ours for a unforgettable family trip.

The train from Dublin to Sligo near our house and we have always wanted to find out what’s there in Sligo. Opportunity came during the autumn school break, I was able to get a couple of days off from work and we bought our tickets to Sligo. It is a 3 hour train ride from…

Newgrange is about one hour away from Dublin and is a great destination for a day trip. It is a stone age passage tomb built around 5400 years ago. Visit to Newgrange is by guided tour only. Newgrange is probably the best preserved passage tomb but there are many of such tomb around Ireland. The…

Kilmainham Goal has one of the most visited tourist site in Dublin. When we relocated to Ireland, Gabriel said his friends have all visited Kilmainham Goal and that he wanted to visit. It would have been more than one year since arriving in Ireland that we would visit the Goal. There is a lot of…

Glendalough is about one hour’s drive away from Dublin that makes it a good day trip itinerary. I am surprised we have not visited Glendalough earlier. Glendalough has 2 interesting sites, first is St Kevin’s monastery and the beautiful upper lake after a bit of a walk. There are 2 parking lots, the visitor centre…

Last minute planning for June bank holiday, we went to Beyond the Trees Avondale. Avondale is one hour’s drive from Dublin. The drive is mostly on motorway but the last few km’s is in a single lane road with a few sharp bends. The attraction is new, opened in 2022 and was a huge hit…

As we started life in Ireland, we realised a lot of people were talking about their holiday plans for summer. The families who are from nearby countries go home to their native countries for the summer months. Primary schools are closed for 2 solid months. We quickly decided that we need to get out for…

Read here for Part 1 Day#4: British Museum When we came 12 years ago, we were very impressed with the British Museum. Back then, we spent a whole day going around the Egyptian, Persian and Greek section of the museum. This time around, we brought the kids and hit specific parts of the museum. It…