• A Sprint through France to Spain

    Driving through France to Spain – detours along the way. Who can resist France in spring?

  • From Hook Head to Wicklow’s Glenmalure

    From the world’s oldest operational lighthouse on Hook Head in Wexford to Wicklow’s Glenmalure Valley

  • The Hook Peninsula

    A meander from Wexford’s Baginbun Beach to Slade on the Hook Peninsula takes in the ghost story of Loftus Hall, Norman ruins and wild flowers.

  • Rambling on Wexford’s Baginbun Head

    Spindrift bowls across the sea in all directions as our ferry pulls into Rosslare – at last. Delayed from leaving Fishguard, we then suffered a gut lurching four hours where the captain had to go north into the Irish Sea for safety reasons rather than diagonally across to Rosslare. More than ever, I can see…

  • Spain and Portugal via Devon, Wales and Ireland …

    Matthew, our local butcher, says that our route to Spain and Portugal would win a prize for the strangest journey to the sun. Logical people would head to their closest port, Newhaven, for a ferry to Dieppe. But we are heading west to Topsham in Exeter, to visit our son and his lovely family. Driving…