Category Archives: Travel

Supply and Demand in Dunedin


  Remember a time when there wasn’t a house in Ireland that didn’t have net curtains? And over years soaking up cigarette smoke they would take on a yellow hue, one that could turn a bright day bad? Well they’ve … Continue reading

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Lucky break in Rotorua


  With a minimum five different stops on this tour – and forIrelandthis is a tour as well as  a World Cup – we get to have those ‘hotel moments’ which are part and parcel of any trip. We can … Continue reading

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Welcome to New Plymouth


My favourite line from the ‘I really don’t want to be here’ school of customer service comes from a Delta air hostess. It was July this year and we were flying to the States and a young man in the … Continue reading

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