We were far overdue a visit to our only national theme park of any description, Emerald Park, just outside Ashbourne in Co. Meath
For our weekend trip to Rome, we booked into the very new, stylish Hotel Casa Monti Rome in the charming Monti neighbourhood
Once again, a relatively quick weekend away gave us time to write up an Aer Lingus flight review of an ever-pleasant, uneventful short-haul journey
My best attempts to sample the British Airways Lounge Rome FCO were nearly thwarted - but I was still determined to fit in several glasses of wine
We had a wonderful time at Lake Garda, staying in Malcesine - a lovely, medium-sized town with relative peace and quiet
We seized the opportunity, while in PortAventura, to jump across to Caribe Aquatic Park and sample all the water slides!
Verona comes across as still something of a quaint, smaller and traditional Italian city despite ever-growing tourism
We visited PortAventura Park & Ferrariland for a few days of classic theme park fun, and loved it - here's what we thought
For our 4-day theme park extravaganza, we opted to stay in the heart of the action at Hotel Gold River, PortAventura World
Once a year, I like to keep my notions in check with a low-cost experience, and a Ryanair review seemed a natural part of this plan