Do things with your mom
"Could we have a day?" That was my mom asking my sister and me if we could spend a full day touring Maui together on our last family vacation. We were completely taken [Read more]
Author: Kirsten Neil
Get your motor running
Well, hello friends, it's been awhile, hasn't it? Sometimes I think I could be a decent travel blogger and then reality hits when I realize it's been four months and I've [Read more]
I went to Hawaii and all I got was this lousy missile crisis
Aloha, friends. Usually when I travel, I like to think about how I will put into words what I see and do to give a glimpse at how a place looks or feels. And it's never hard [Read more]
The best of 2017. Let’s celebrate with a toast and get lost in this post
It was the worst of times, Dear God was it the worst of times. 2017 arrived like a bat out of Derry's kitchen and proceeded to suck the life out of us for an entire 12 months. [Read more]
It’s the Great Pumpkin Seed Eater, Charlie
My partner loves roasted pumpkin seeds. Like, you have no idea. Last year, I forgot to get pumpkins, which meant no roasted seeds, and I never heard the end of it. This year, [Read more]
Like a kid in a crayon store
Remember when you were a kid and you got a new colouring book and immediately grabbed your crayons and had at it? Yeah, good memories, right? It didn't matter if you stayed in [Read more]
When you take the Game of Thrones tour, you walk or you lag behind
Whenever a new HBO show comes out, I give it a shot. When I saw the first trailer for Game of Thrones, I was intrigued. When I watched the first scene, I was hooked. To me, it [Read more]
Cliffs and castles and puffins and cows
Tour buses suck. They just do. No human wants to be treated like cattle, yet that's how most of those tours work. However, sometimes they're necessary when you need to [Read more]
Live fast, have fun, be young in Dublin
I'm not sure what to think about Dublin. I arrived with preconceived notions of what I thought this city would be like and each one of those notions was [Read more]
I fell in love with the shinin’ ring of Éire
Not gonna lie, the weather on my summer trip to Scotland and Ireland was anything but summer-y. These places might scale lighter on the landmass size, but they have weather [Read more]
11 reasons why you shouldn’t visit The Highlands
Dark colours, crumbling castles and unkempt creatures are all part of the supposed "charm" of The Highlands. After a three day whirlwind of a tour, I can safely attest that [Read more]
Casting call: Potter & Me
I never really thought much about Scotland's connections to Harry Potter, one of my favourite things, before coming to this part of the world. The minute I touched down, that [Read more]
It’s not the camera, but who’s behind it
On a cloudy, windy morning in Edinburgh -- they have a lot of those -- I met up with James Christie of Edinburgh Photography Tours to walk the town, take in a bit of history [Read more]
High tea at a castle high in the sky
I've just poured a cup of tea, Earl Grey of course, and, as I wait for my tiered tray of goodies to arrive, I'm lost in thought at what Edinburgh is like. What should I write [Read more]
All I learned about history I learned reading historical romances
So, you know, just sitting with the boy watching Jeopardy when a bunch of questions about history come up, as they do. I start riffing off a few answers, but not in the form [Read more]
