The month of August brought us to Italy for the very first time. Even though we first moved to Europe in 2008, our travel has been mostly restricted to Northern Ireland, Spain and Germany for work. Not that I'm complaining...
Read moreOne Day at Powerscourt
Without a doubt, the highlight of the summer so far was a visit from one of my best, lifelong friends. Julia and her gorgeous little girl came to spend her 40th birthday in Ireland with us, which is basically like giving your best friend the...
Read moreA Grecian Spiritual Retreat
I've owed this post to you for a long time. Way back in November - like, in the BT days (Before Trump) - I travelled to Athens, Greece with about two dozen other North American women who live and work in Europe. This is the second such spiritual retreat I've been on, where you awake to...
Read moreDay trip to Kilkenny (I think)
We had big plans to take a day trip to see a "castle" and then a nearby "swiss cottage." Well, we found a pretty great castle and village in Kilkenny, but it turns out the swiss cottage was about 100km in the opposite direction, so...
Read moreThrown Together in Ireland
Emily over at From China Village hosts the wonderful "Styled in Ireland" series, in which she shares what to wear, bring and accessorize with while out and about on our fair isle. As a fellow transplant to Ireland who still feels like a midwestern tourist (me), I love these posts...
