It's hard to think about Northern Ireland without thinking of the Troubles. The years of news headlines, car bombs, shootings and images of black balaclavas will haunt the city for many years to come. The Shankill Mona Lisa - no matter where you stand he's looking at you, and his gun is pointed right at you! Not ...
Long ago, the great warrior men known as the Fianna roamed the wilds of Ireland. They had no lands so sometimes they stayed in the homes of noblemen and kept the peace for them, but mostly they lived by their spears and arrows, hunting for their food and trading furs and pelts. The last leader of the ...
Everyone who knows me knows that I live half of my life in my imagination, dreaming of other places, other paths, other worlds. To celebrate the new year, I thought I would allow my mind to drift to the beautiful places around the world that have captured me with their colours and murals. No doubt I ...
Wild boar, beaver, quail and venison - it's no wonder this restaurant is named after the Lithuanian word for 'Bear' (Lokys). As you lope through this forest of a menu, your inner wild creature will take over as you let your feral instincts of scent and taste reign; and I can assure you, you won't be disappointed. Lokys holds ...
Hugh MacDermott is the founder of 'MacDermott's Argentina', which offers tailor made holidays to Argentina, specialising in horse riding and the gaucho culture. Hugh has travelled extensively around the world, but especially in South America, making gaucho friends at various estancias along the way, and taking such beautiful photos on his journeys that you can't help ...
'They went to sea in a sieve they did, in a sieve they went to sea.' On a little island off the coast near Phan Thiet, an ancient French lighthouse rises elegantly above the bushes of yellow & white magnolia flowers and green pools of water. My visit to the Kê Gà lighthouse twinkled a little more ...
As you drive further and further out of Ho Chi Minh City, the myriad of stacked houses and the never ending buzz of motorbikes are slowly but steadily replaced by water logged rice fields and an occasional buffalo lazily wandering through them. The road to Củ Chi is a long road lined with shacks filled with ...
One of the best things about South East Asian countries is how alive the cities are at night! We only landed in HCMC at 8pm today then travelled to our hotel, checked in, unpacked leisurely and changed before heading out to get a feel for the city at night. We walked past the HCMC Opera ...
There are so many different things to get excited about when you're going on holiday, however for me it's one of the most intangible moments that I love the most. For some reason, for as long as I can remember, when I go on holiday we always land in the middle of the night and ...
One of the most unusual and exciting things I have ever done is to go crab hunting in the shallow flats of the Persian Gulf off the coast of Umm al-Quawain. It was all organised by my best friend who I went to visit in Dubai while she was working out there for 6 months. Umm al-Quwain is ...
Tumbleweeding through life. Listening to stories, writing tales and chasing after horses.
'I could tell you my adventures - beginning with this morning, but it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then' - Alice (Lewis Carroll)
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The Spanish Riding School of Vienna
Appleby Horse Fair
