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How to plan a trip to Ireland
Practical tips for planning a trip to Ireland: best time to visit, required document, how long to stay, essential travel tips to help you plan your Ireland vacation.
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Packing list for Ireland in summer: complete packing list for your Irish vacation
Full packing list for Ireland in summer: Ireland travel essential, what to pack for summer in Ireland for comfort and style. Summer packing for Ireland made easy! Ireland in summer is absolutely beautiful: long bright evenings, green countryside, coastal drives and, if you get lucky, glorious sunshine. However, it can also be a little tricky when it comes to packing. Irish summer weather is famously changeable and while I won’t go quite as far as saying you’ll experience four seasons in one day, three is definitely possible! It’s completely normal to leave your accommodation in sunshine, get caught in a sudden shower at lunchtime and end the day needing a…
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Delicious Irish Festive Drinks You’ll Love This Holiday Season
Discover 15 Irish festive drinks for the holidays: rich Baileys hot chocolate, Guinness cocktails, hot toddies, and non-alcoholic favourites. There’s something about the holidays in Ireland: the twinkle lights around town, the fire crackling away, and a warm drink in hand as the wind howls outside. I have always loved the holiday season here: while the weather is pretty atrocious, the Irish really know how to make up for it and a warm drink as you get dry in front of the fire is very much the ticket to a cozy Christmas! Today, I want to share with you beautiful and delicious Irish and Irish-inspired holiday drinks to make at…
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5 easy way to store Halloween decorations
Halloween is a beloved Irish tradition, celebrated with spooky decorations, glowing pumpkins, and imaginative costumes. But once the ghouls and ghosts are packed away, it’s time to make space for Christmas cheer! Storing Halloween decorations doesn’t have to be stressful or expensive—these five easy, budget-friendly steps will help you keep your decorations safe, organized, and ready for next year Halloween is a meaningful and fun tradition when communities go all out with spooky displays, pumpkin lanterns, cobwebs, and costumes. From your front porch to your living room, decorating for Halloween is half the fun! But once the last trick-or-treater has gone home, all that festive magic needs to be carefully…
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Delicious and easy mulled wine recipe perfect for the holiday season
A delicious and super easy mulled wine recipe that is perfect for Christmas parties and will make your house smell festive with no effort Mulled wine is a warm, spiced, alcoholic drink and a staple of the Christmas season. Mulled wine was born in Europe, where you can still find at Christmas markets as a warming beverage of choice, but it has grown in popularity so much, you now find it pretty much anywhere you find a ‘white Christmas’. In Germany, it is known as Glühwein; in Sweden, you find it as glögg; here in Ireland and in the UK you usually find is as mulled wine: no matter how…
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5 Spooky-Easy Halloween Spritz Cocktails you’ll love
Easy to make, delicious Halloween spritz cocktails based on Italy’s most famous cocktail: spritz! Fun Halloween drink ideas for a Halloween party for the grown ups Spritz is most commonly associated with lazy summer days on Italian terraces, but its bubbly prosecco base and the infinite variations it lends itself to, also make it perfect as a Halloween drink. In this post, I share 5 ideas for a seasonal Halloween twist to your spritz cocktails that you can easily make at home and are a guaranteed success. Easy party idea! Serve them as a welcome cocktail while your guests graze from your delicious and perfectly themed Halloween charcuterie board! These…
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How to Create a Gorgeous Halloween Charcuterie Board
Easy to follow ideas to create a fun and seasonal Halloween charcuterie board the whole family will love. If you ask me, nothing sets the tone for a cosy autumn evening quite like a charcuterie board. It’s that perfect mix of delicious little bites, conversation starters, and (let’s be honest) Instagram-worthy prettiness. And since Halloween has its roots right here in Ireland—originally celebrated as Samhain—what better way to honour the season than with a spooky-but-chic charcuterie board for your dinner party or cosy night in? Think of it as edible décor: rich colours, playful nods to the season, and flavour combinations that feel indulgent but effortless. It truly is SO easy…
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What to pack for Ireland in June: realistic, practical Ireland packing list for great Irish vacation whatever the weather
What to pack for Ireland in June: full Ireland packing list and insider tips to be comfortable and stylish in Ireland at the beginning of summer!
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Dublin at Christmas with kids: how to plan a magical family Christmas trip to Dublin
Visiting Dublin at Christmas with kids: an essential guide for visitors. Festive events, weather, and what you need to know to spend Christmas in Dublin. Dublin is great at celebrating Christmas. Winters in Dublin tend to be cold and dark, but Christmas here truly is a triumph of light over darkness. The city centre streets shine under the sparkle of twinkling decorations, shop windows shimmer in gold hues, and Dublin’s interiors envelop you in the warmth of cracking fires and the perfume of mulled wine. For me, this is by far one of the best times to visit Dublin. At Christmas, you can enjoy all the city’s top attractions and…
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Family walks in and near Dublin you and your kids will love
Best walks near Dublin: a selection of the best easy hikes near Dublin and the best walks in and near the city for the whole family. One of the things I like the most about Dublin is how close it is to beautiful nature. All it takes is a short drive or hop on the Dart and you find yourself along the sea or up the mountains, the Irish landscape opening up in front of you, pretty much without having to make an effort at all! Over the course of the years, we have taken many walks and easy hikes and these are our favorite. They are all walks you…
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The best time to visit Dublin: a month by month overview of the weather in the city
An insider guide to the best time to visit Dublin and what to expect in each season (no, it is not just rain, rain and more rain!) Dublin is a great destination for a city break all year round, however, different seasons make for a very different experience. In spring and summer, Dublin often shimmer under the most amazing sun and blue sky and truly blossoms in its identity as a coastal city. While never proper hot, you can even swim in the (cold) sea at this time! In winter, the situation is not quite as dreamy… November, January, February, March tend to be hard months of grey, dull sky and low…
