Tag Archives: Edward Bransfield

Into the East – Coastal Cork

The post explores the eastern coastline of Cork, highlighting Kinsale’s historic significance and local attractions like the memorials for explorers Timothy and Mortimer McCarthy. It also covers Cobh’s role in transatlantic immigration, notable sites related to the Titanic, and other explored locations like Ballinacurra and Roches Point, teasing future adventures.

East Side Story

Jet lag: a physiological condition that dramatically affects your sleep pattern and wrecks the first few days of any trip from Australia to Europe as you speed across 10 time zones.  Remedies for this malady range from Tamazepam to “a bit of plain toast and de-fizzed 7-up”. Luckily we arrived in Scotland first this time […]