Sally has been asking to go to Venice for several years. David hasn’t been super keen on it, so we’ve been waiting for the right...

This last week was one of the most amazing experiences I have ever had on a bicycle. Two years ago, I joined Volta Pro Tours to cycle...

We met up with the Norman-Banerjee clan Japan this year for spring break. David and Sally had been wanting to return, basically since...

This year we left Ireland for the 4-day Saint Patrick’s Day weekend. The first year we lived here, we went to the parade. The second...

This year for the annual Hansell-Grenager ski week we went to les Trois Vallées , the largest combined ski resort in the world. It’s...

Early on the first day of the year we headed to Florence. Neither David nor I had been here in well over 20 years, and Sally had never...

The last weekend of December 2024, we did a short weekend trip up to County Leitrim for a change of scenery after all the holiday...

This October both David and I coincidentally (and bizarrely) had work trips in Germany the exact same week. At first we tried to finagle...

The very last weekend of summer we took the ferry from Belfast to Scotland. It was a whirlwind 48-hour adventure but we managed to take...

In July Sally and I went to London for a few days to visit friends. Initially it was supposed to be a trip for all three of us, but David...

David turned the big 5-0 this year and we celebrated in true style. It’s almost difficult to adequately capture how profoundly perfect...

This year we picked France again for our annual ski trip and it most definitely did not disappoint. The town of Val d’Isère is nestled in...

This year for spring break Catherine Reiss and her kids Ezra and Elsa came [back] to Ireland and we toured a bit of the western part of...

This year for the Christmas holiday we met up with the Norman family in Italy, where we had chosen Sicily as none of us had been there...

Well, 2024 is starting with quite a few high points. This is lining up to be a tough year to beat. After moving to Ireland in 2021, I...

David was very keen to go see a real Christmas market so we met up with our friends the Warner family in Munich, one of the top-rated...

For my birthday this year we were slated to go to Iceland. You’ll note, however, that the title of this blog post is “Donegal fall 2023”...

I attended my first Congress (conference) of the European College of Equine Internal Medicine (ECEIM) this year in Lyon, France. The...

The second weekend of September we were all slated to go to the Beara Peninsula, West Cork, for David to ride in the Ring of Beara ride...

To celebrate Sally’s 10th birthday we surprised her with a weekend at Center Parcs. Center Parcs are a chain run by a British company and...