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...

We had such a busy summer (2023) that I am going to summarize for posterity (and my memory). First Chris, Shar, Autumn, and Alex came in...

We kicked off what most people would consider summer (first weekend in June) with a wedding just outside of Barcelona. We were there to...

Susanne spent the month of May with us. We kept her busy! Of course her first we started with a dinner at the local and her annual first...

For David’s birthday this year we spent the weekend in Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland. David and Sally had seen some photos of this “valley...

This year for spring break we headed out west to the Dingle Peninsula, inspired by a bike ride David signed up for but bolstered by the...

February and march have been busy with visitors and trips inside and outside of Ireland. In late February, we were treated to a visit...

This year we spent winter break (a.k.a. “ski week”) in Morzine, France, where we skied/boarded, skated, spoke French, ate way too much...

In mid-January we took the short flight over to London to see our friends, Rich and Yasemin (and their two adorable kiddos, Theon and...

For the Christmas week this year we met up with the Norman-Banerjee family in Lisbon, Portugal. Last year we met them at roughly the same...

Sally’s fall break fell the week of Halloween in 2022. We planned to visit a whopping 3 adjacent countries, none of which we’d ever been...

The third weekend of October David, Sally, and I shared in a first visit to Vienna, Austria. The trip was planned surrounding a concert...

We got to go to Portugal with Sarah and Daniel Franco for a long weekend. Daniel is Portuguese, his family moved to the U.S. when he was...

First, some delightful random things that happened this month that I want to remember. Sally and I took all the lavender that our...

Last weekend David had signed up for the Tour de Beara - a 120-km bike event around the Ring of Beara, starting and ending down in...