Where to go when you have a few days free between Christmas and New Year and you don't want to worry about passports etc... Scotland! After a 11 hours bus trip North and two freezing pit stops along the way we meet our driver for the 3 days and are told the next 3 days will be nothing but 'Wild and Sexy'...not feeling too sexy after no sleep for 30 hours...but hey lets go with it! First stop off our bus after meet and greets is Stirling Castle...where every guy...

So a Sunday free...what to do...I know lets just head over to Belgium for the day and visit the Christmas markets? We begin our day at 6:20am at Embankment Station, a bus to the Ferry, from the Ferry another bus and by late morning we are in the Centre of Brugge! First impressions take me back to the Neterlands but as we walk a little further in I feel like I am in Venice in the town centre I am taken back to Prague. No this is Brugge...clean with a odd breeze f...

What does evey girl want for their birthday.....? A trip to Paris would definitely go down well and this year no more wishing Paris is less than 2 hours away and I intend to take full advantage of it ! My first trip on the Eurostar and I slept most of very quick trip. After some hesitation my international gut kicks in and the sights and sounds of Paris come back to me. We find our hotel only to find our room has been given to someone else???? New room provided...

Catching the metro from the airport to the city fairly easy. Finding our way from the station to our hotel???? Not so easy but after a greek/english conversation that I understood about half of a lovely man had drawn out direction which got us there in 5 minutes. We headed out for dinner in the Plaka district and enjoyed great food, conversation and entertainment, for the night we were all Greek. We head out to the Port of Piraeus to board our ship The Aquamarin...

So we picked up a car in Dublin and took to the very narrow Irish roads. After a few wrong turns we found a very windy camping ground and since it was raining and getting dark we thought we better peg down for the night. We were more than rewarded for that choice when we went into town for dinner and found a Fish & Chip shop that sells potato cakes...YES!!!!!! We head south down to Waterford and Wexford and take a picnic to explore the houses and lakes of th...