Welcome to the Checking In series on Orlagh Claire where I review hotel stays around the world. As you most likely know, I have been travelling quite a lot recently which you can see over on my YouTube channel. Next in this series is Scandic Torget, Bergen, Norway where I recently spent the early May bank holiday weekend. Location…
This blog post is all about how to spend 48 hours in Berlin. Continuing on with our quick weekends away like when we went to Milan, Lake Como and Paris, we chose our next European destination as Berlin in Germany. Having never been to Germany before, I was very excited to experience what this amazing…
For my 25th birthday, I finally visited the French capital of Paris. The city of love, baguettes and frog legs! As someone born in March, I haven’t been able to celebrate my birthday for the past two years. I turned 23 in my New York apartment while quarantined, so was delivered a birthday cake to…
This blog post is all about how to spend 2 days in Niagara Falls. A few weeks ago I took a trip upstate to see the Niagara Falls. I don’t know why, but I actually only thought Niagara Falls was visible from Canada. Blonde moment, I know. (No offence to blondes). Since we can’t go…
This blog post is all about a guide to exploring Queens in New York City. One of the five boroughs of New York that hosts the World’s Fair and Laguardia Airport, Queens is bustling with people from all walks of life and is home to the most languages of any place on earth. Just walking…
Think you’ve seen everything there is to see in New York? What about this lesser-known part of New York City? This is City Island, located in The Bronx. At the beginning of this week I had a day’s holiday to use as I turned my 4th of July three-day weekend into a four-day weekend. Since…
I’ve been meaning to write a post about the things that I’ve come to realize since moving to New York. It was a huge culture shock for sure, having never actually been to visit the city prior to my moving day. New York is very, very wonderful, but it’s also very, very weird. You’ve got…
If you have sensitive skin, this blog post covers how to prepare your skin for a long haul flight and how I prevented an attack of airplane acne. If you don’t remember, I took my first long-haul flight to Las Vegas last November and my face (to put it lightly) erupted like a volcano. I…
This time last week I was strolling around Amsterdam without a care in the world. No thoughts about my looming dissertation, assignments, exam or the other million worries I have about final year. I was taking in the sights of Dam Square, Vondelpark and every canal bridge that we could find. Oh how I’d love…
This blog post is all about Cuilcagh Mountain Park in Fermanagh. I arrived back home to the (weirdly) sunny Northern Ireland on Saturday for a week’s break before I begin my next work placement in Liverpool, followed by my move to London. I left a cloudy and overcast Liverpool to be welcomed to the 20 degree…