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Reformed backpacker & former ultra-cheap traveller, Andy now atones for his past by overspending on premium travel experiences and failing at making the most of the miles & points game. Former expat now returned to Ireland, he is a product manager by day, and travel aficionado by evening and weekend.

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✈️ Ooh! Shiny, Business Class 👑 📷 From

✈️ Ooh! Shiny, Business Class 👑
📷 From #Dublin to #AbuDhabi, we lucked out with the very fancy business class cabin, on the new(-ish) A350 from @etihad
Here's my thoughts....
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- Privacy anyone? Loads of it. And that door closes in-flight. Goodbye World...
- All the space! Sure you said goodbye world, but look at all the legroom, entertainment (and from experience, drinks) you could ever need.
- What a classy cabin - I've rarely thought I'd like my kitchen to look like an airplane cabin, but this one...hmm yep probably.
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- Too much to eat and drink in such a short flight to really enjoy the sleep (which was also great, btw).
- Not the plane's fault, but current Abu Dhabi airport is in critical, urgent need of expansion.
- That's pretty much all the downsides, so here's another bullet point purely for balance.
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Have you tried this cabin - or its many similar siblings (including the British Airways club suite)? What do you think?
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Full review on my blog - link in bio! 📝
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#businessclass #etihadairways #etihada350 #etihadbusiness #ey #AUH #airplane #flightreview #travel #windowseatpreferred #trip #flight #dublinairport #eidw #luxurytravel #dub #airbusa350

No Place Like Home ☘️ . After a delightful eti

No Place Like Home ☘️
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After a delightful etihad Business Class experience (and accompanying phone-losing, drink-fuelled good time) back from KL, there was absolutely nothing quite like some fresh air and ocean views to set us straight. ...ish 😂
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What's your post-flight routine like? Do you need to get out in the air, do some exercise or - ugh - actually go and unpack everything?
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Full disclosure; this pic is from Dublin so unpacking wasn't an option as we still had to endure the most terrifying part of the journey, my sleep-deprived driving skills for 2 hours back home to Limerick.
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Also, yes thank you, I do need to post more. Maybe one day 🤣
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#travel #home #killiney #dublin #visit #windowseatpreferred #summer #ireland #trip #noplacelikehome #views #irishsea #ocean #killineyhill

🚁 Chopper Views! 🚁 . We seriously lucked ou

🚁 Chopper Views! 🚁
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We seriously lucked out with the weather (which was hideous about 2 hours before) on this amazing helicopter trip over the Irish west coast last weekend!
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I don't know about you, but I find it impossible to just sit at home after being away on a trip - thankfully @isha_aquaphile found this helicopter trip from Spanish Point literally happening a day later 🤣 Talk about ways to combat boredom 😂
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Doesn't Ireland just look absolutely amazing when the weather works out though? 🌞
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#helicopter #helicopterride #westcoast #ireland #countyclare #irish #weekend #travel #windowseatpreferred #irelandphotography #wildatlanticway #scenery #view #fromtheair

Love A Sunset 🌞 . Even though we absolutely lo

Love A Sunset 🌞
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Even though we absolutely love a good sunset; our driver wasn't a big fan (of anything that didn't involve his own ideas, generally) and so we only got down to Petitenget Beach once in the whole 4 days!
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Bali is (and could be even more) absolutely beautiful - but as you'll have seen from my stories, Bali is absolutely slammed at the moment with tourism, starting with the airport and continuing to every 'sight' with barely any space to move and definitely none to stand around and enjoy anything for a few moments.
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To be honest, I'd avoid it for now until - hopefully - the post-covid hype dies down a bit. Look out for a review on the blog soon (link in bio, natch!).
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Even this sunset required multiple moving around the beach to try to have a view without the hordes in the way 🤣
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#sunset #bali #petitenget #beach #indonesia #trip #windowseatpreferred #holiday #travelblog #travel #travelgram #evening #chill #sun

One From The Archives 🤣⛱️ . Seemingly this

One From The Archives 🤣⛱️
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Seemingly this was from exactly 17 years ago 😱 Trust me, it came as a sad shock to me too that I was even alive and travelling that long ago 😬
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Anyway, here is a really beautiful view out from an island off the coast of Belize from when - I assure you - I was very young 🤣
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What I can say about this picture though, it came right after daydrinking and right before running out of fuel on the boat back to the mainland. What an enjoyable 3 hours it was drifting closer to shore while waiting to have phone signal to call for help. As I say, 17 years ago.
Aaaand we'll take this late teen story no further 🙄
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#belize #beach #caye #island #view #sea #belizetravel #trip #throwback #tbt #familyvisit (can you believe?!) #visit #travel #centralamerica #scenery #ocean

Sunrise & Petals 🌞 . 👋 Hello - this is my o

Sunrise & Petals 🌞
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👋 Hello - this is my once a month Insta check-in 😂 Hope everyone is doing fine and getting enough summer sun? We did...for a few days, and then we didn't 😒☘️
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📷 Here's a beautiful sunrise from our last morning in Penang, wwaaayyy back in February!
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#penang #malaysia #batuferringhi #penangisland #trip #throwback #windowseatpreferred #andamansea #ocean #scenery #sunrise #travel #view #sun #scenery

One Day in Copenhagen ❄️ . . . #copenhagen #t

One Day in Copenhagen ❄️
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#copenhagen #tbt #throwback #denmark #nyhavn #nyhavncanal #kopenhagen #europe #visit #weekend #windowseatpreferred #travel #københavn

🌞 Ireland Having A Moment . Turns out despite m

🌞 Ireland Having A Moment
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Turns out despite my unending cynicism, it's not all doom & gloom - not only has the famed once a year 'The Sunny Day' happened, but a whole week of them has 😱
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Conversations naturally now start with "Isn't it terribly hot" and the only fans left in any shop are the overexpensive Dyson ones that nobody wants to buy for fear of looking like they're trying to show off 😂
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So, how long will it last? Stay tuned 😬
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#ireland #summer #evening #westcoast #westatlanticway #atlanticocean #mayo #windowseatpreferred #longweekend #throwback #sun #ocean #coast #irelandphotography

Sun, Sea &...A Rock 🪨 📷 Check out these vie

Sun, Sea &...A Rock 🪨
📷 Check out these views (and this giant lonely ocean stack; which the recluse in me think looks perfect for a new home 🤣) from the #Kilkee cliff walk in Clare, on what turned out to be a sunburn-guaranteed day of sun 🌞
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#throwback #kilkeecliffs #cliff #cliffwalk #nature #ireland #clare #munster #ocean #atlanticocean #walk #windowseatpreferred #weekend #tbt #nature

✈️ Throwback Take-Off... 📷 But where? Have

✈️ Throwback Take-Off...
📷 But where? Have a guess - no hashtag peeking 🤫
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Winner gets...a feeling of pride and great satisfaction 😬🤣
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#takeoff #weekend #throwback #flight #flying #windowseatpreferred #travel #malaysiaairlines #penang #malaysia #inflight #mh #sea #georgetown #city

✈️ Most Extra Way To London 👑 📷 From #D

✈️ Most Extra Way To London 👑
📷 From #Dublin to #London we sampled @AerLingus once a day A321 seat royalty, on their AerSpace fare, which includes lounge access, fast track, and this incredibly OTT seat to Heathrow.
So, thoughts...
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- Nicest seat - too nice almost to really maximise - on the 1 hour Dublin to London jaunt, and probably on Europe flights generally.
- Free (one item of...) Food & Drink. Call the police, it's an intra-Europe miracle!
- Pretty much all the pleasantries of business without the fare unpleasantries 💰
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- Free food & drink is kept almost secret - no mention of it, and no offer either until asked.
- Speaking of which, surely second helpings wouldn't be that wildly expensive to offer.
- There really isn't much time to benefit from the seat; unless you can powernap on demand.
- AerSpace fares seem to vary from the very respectable to the scandalous.
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What do we think of this cabin for a quick junket to London? Who has tried AerLingus and what did we think?
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#businessclass #aerlingus #ei #aerspace #aerlingusaerspace #flightreview #travel #windowseatpreferred #trip #flight #dublinairport #eidw #luxurytravel #dub #lhr #ei154 #a321neo

London, From Above 🇬🇧 📷 ...On a lovely su

London, From Above 🇬🇧
📷 ...On a lovely sunny / kinda cloudy / kinda 'oh god it's gonna rain any second' afternoon (it did) 🌧
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Overall though, it was a great trip - packed in
What are your must see sights in London?
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#london #londoncity #londoneye #city #cityscape #windowseatpreferred #travel #view #uk #unitedkingdom #weekend #shortbreak #clouds #horizon

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