Iceland

Flying from Dublin to Iceland required some advance planning. We decided to drive up the day before and spend a night in the Hilton Hotel. we parked the car in their underground car park and paid to leave it there till we returned. Then we availed of the free hotel shuttle, which runs every 30 […]

Leaving Derby at 10am and stopping for a quick Cornish pastie lunch en route got us to Glasgow about 3pm. First stop was the KelvinGrove Museum, an interesting myriad of art, nature and history in a beautiful building. Next stop was the Hilton Hotel where we checked into the Presidential suite for the night! There […]

The North of Ireland

Derby 2021

Ireland was in a 5km lockdown with schools closed so it seemed like a good time to jump ship and head to Derby to visit the Towler’s. Drove from Ballyvourney to Belfast for the overnight ferry on Feb 17th. It was a bumpy, rocky crossing so not much sleep was had. When we docked in […]

Ballyvourney 2020

Location, Location, Location

While waiting for Phil and Kirsty to reply to our application we set out on a search of our own. Our task was locating a UK home in striking distance of Loughborough University. Right Move became our go to for a daily browse of newly added properties. With the million dollar question, ‘where was the […]

Greece post lockdown

Flying from Cyprus to Athens was a very strange experience. On entering the airport everyone had temperatures taken and face masks were compulsory. We were leaving on the only departing flight so there were socially distanced lines at baggage drop. No hand luggage was allowed so everyone had to drop bags off and anyone who […]

Cyprus in lockdown

At check in, at the Paphos Breeze, we had asked if we could extend our stay by a few nights more and we were directed to their website. We checked and there was lots of availability, so we left it. The next day their website was saying that there was no availability. Booked out. Strange. […]

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