My latest travelogue is about a very interesting one-week tour around Romania, organized by The Travel Department (Ireland), which I went on back in October, 2017. We were brought to the wonderful old Saxon towns of Sighisoara, Sibiu, Brasov (pictured above), and then the capital Bucharest. As I had long wanted to visit Romania, IContinue reading “A week in Romania (2017)”
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America 2006
My 2006 journey by car through part of America concludes with the final two chapters of this travelogue. In it we continue to drive along the Appalachian Mountains in Virginia, travel through a little of West Virginia, then head to Pennsylvania, where we stay in a guest house owned by a Pennsylvanian Dutch couple. (TheContinue reading “America 2006”
America 2006
Sharp Top Mountain, Peaks of Otter Lodge, Virginia Two more chapters have been added to my travelogue ‘America 2006’! In Chapter 3 we continue our journey through Virginia, visiting historic Williamsburg, and make our way to the Peaks of Otter Lodge near Roanoke. In Chapter 4, we explore the area around Roanoke and drive downContinue reading “America 2006”
America 2006
My latest travelogue is America 2006, which is about a month-long trip that a friend and I made in the USA, visiting Washington D.C., then driving through Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Maryland, with short trips in and out of a couple of other states nearby.
New England and New York 1998
Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA This new travelogue is about a three-week-long trip that I and a friend made by car around New England (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts again, New York State, Connecticut, Rhode Island and back to Massachusetts) and a one-week stay in Manhattan, New York. As we were there during the Fall, weContinue reading “New England and New York 1998”
Iceland 1980
One of the most extraordinary journeys that I’ve made has to be a crazy ‘safari’ trip across the island of Iceland in a couple of old buses and a kitchen van back in 1980. As the scenery was so unusual, travelling across Iceland was like visiting another planet! There were no roads, the vehicles hadContinue reading “Iceland 1980”
Peru and Bolivia, 1996
My latest travelogue is about a fascinating organized trip that I joined in 1996, which brought a bunch of young and enthusiastic people from Ireland and the UK to Lima in Peru and then down to La Paz in Bolivia, using local transport most of the time. It was probably the most memorable and excitingContinue reading “Peru and Bolivia, 1996”
Czechoslovakia 1991
The first part of my latest travelogue, Czechoslovakia 1991, begins with two chapters devoted to the spectacular and fascinating city of Prague, a city full of fine architecture and cultural treats such as museums, art galleries and classical music concerts. Part two will be devoted to a short trip that I made in Slovakia, nowContinue reading “Czechoslovakia 1991”
Part 2 of ‘The Middle Kingdom’
The first two chapters in Part 2 of ‘The Middle Kingdom’ – my trip through China in 1987 – have now been added to the website. You’ll find these two chapters, about my journey to Lhasa and a short stay in Chengdu, in the Travelogues section. Enjoy!
The islands of Scotland
I am delighted to welcome Lindsay Armstrong to our list of writers. Lindsay’s various jobs have included being an oboist and cor anglais player in the RTÉ Symphony Orchestra here in Ireland, the first general manager of Dublin’s National Concert Hall, and the first director of the Royal Irish Academy of Music. He was Co-FounderContinue reading “The islands of Scotland”
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