After spending a wonderful day wandering around Kinsale and Charles Fort, we spent the next couple of days exploring Cork, visiting places from my husband's childhood. ...
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Snapshots from Ireland Part 1: Kinsale and Charles Fort
As we like a challenge, we organised a family trip to Ireland (somewhat last minute: read very), flying on the evening of the last day of school. Yup. Seemed like a good idea at the time. ...
Snapshots of our winter Part 2
Had enough talk of snow from me yet? I have! But, this years snow obsession would be incomplete without our last (hopefully) storm. The crazy one that left us with 20 inches of the white stuff. ...
Snapshots of our winter Part 1
In a fit of hopefulness that spring might finally be around the corner, I thought it was time to do a little catch up on our winter! ...
Snapshots from Breakheart Reservation
New England has been giving us its best in crazy-swinging-temperature-flip-flops-to-snow-boots weather. February vacation went from the sublime to the ridiculous. ...
Snapshots from Christmas
Well, here we are almost two weeks into January and I'm still looking back to Christmas! Slow start to the year here. ...
Snapshots from the snow
It snowed! The first snow of the winter is always exciting, and it really is hard to beat fresh snow and blue skies. ...
Snapshots from Storyland
One of our favorite places is Storyland in New Hampshire. We discovered it the year after we moved to the US and we've been back every summer since. ...
Snapshots from Connors Farm
So. We failed completely on the apple picking and pumpkin patch visiting this year. I fear that makes me a bad blogger, but hey ho! ...
Snapshots from the trees
My younger son is quite determined to take years off my life by climbing. Anything and everything! His current favorite is trees. ...