Can’t wait until the summer festival season? Well each year Snowbombing have that all wrapped up as soon as April when they bring their mix of music and snowboarding for the ultimate in Apres Ski fun. CONTINUE READING THIS POST >

It’s clean, bright and shiny in Singapore. It’s an international city where English is spoken far and wide and the plugs are the same 3-pins as back at home. In fact orientating the centre of this tiny country is about as easy to cope with as any city in the UK – and probably a lot easier with its impressive transport infrastructure.
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Three hundred and three thousand art lovers took time to visit the acclaimed exhibition ‘Joan Miro: The Ladder of Escape‘ at the Tate Modern this year. But now you have a chance to see that exhibition in Barcelona, Catalonia, the Eastern coastal region of Spain where Miro lived, and loved. Where he convalesced from a dark depression and rallied against dictator Francisco Franco during and after the Spanish Civil War. CONTINUE READING THIS POST >

Amsterdam is amazing. I love it. What is there not to like? Beautiful scenery? Check. Buzzing city and night life? Check. Does it live up to its extremely fun and sordid reputation? Check. Good place to go with your parents? Um… half a check. When your parents summon you over to a sex shop window, point to a bizarre rubber contraption with spikes shooting out of it and expect you to explain its function like you are some sort of ‘young person sex toy guru’, the fun stops. CONTINUE READING THIS POST >

Everyone has a happy place they escape to when the going gets tough. Some head to the well-stocked Ben & Jerry’s freezer, brandishing a shovel-sized spoon in one hand and a pre-emptive bib for the dribbles in the other. There are those who find solace at the bottom of a highly alcoholic concoction whilst dancing in Ibiza. For me, salvation is found in the back end of nowhere in the South West Coast of Ireland. CONTINUE READING THIS POST >