Wrapping up my trip to Ireland

With my Ireland trip blog complete. It's time to wrap it up with a few thoughts. I know that Maui was the first "real" international trip I took. However, going to the US from Canada doesn't always feel that "international". So I'm going to identify this Ireland trip as the "first" one! If you've spent the time to read through the trip, I appreciate it! If not and you want to, you can find the...

Jameson and the Book of Kells

Mad Yolks This morning, I get up bright and early in order to give myself plenty of time to walk from my hotel to the Jameson Distillery. In fact, I gave myself so much time that I arrived early and the distillery hadn't opened yet. Good thing I did a little research beforehand and found a breakfast spot nearby. Mad Yolks is a cool breakfast sandwich shop and I picked up a great egg sandwich...

Travel to Galway (Ireland)

Flying to Ireland Even though I've been fortunate enough to travel a little in 2022, this would be my first (non-US) international trip since the pandemic began. (My 2021 Birthday flights notwithstanding since I never left any airports!). With this in mind I did arrive at the airport a bit early just to be safe. Breezing through security I had a few hours to spare airside in the airport, so I hit...

Minion Monies: How much did our trip to Turkey & Croatia Cost?

The following will be an accounting of my 2018 trip to Turkey & Croatia. If you've not read the blog, you can do so here. Or if you want a summary of the entire trip you can check that out here. It might provide some extra context to the costs below! The Transportation ($982.39) The Flights ($684.88) There were three flights which we booked for this month long trip. The first is the main...

Minion Monies: How much did my 2019 Montreal Trip Cost?

The following will be an accounting of my 2019 trip to Hawaii. If you've not read the blog, you can do so here. It might provide some extra context to the costs below! The Transportation ($605.22) The Flights ($446.35) Our flights to Montreal were booked on Air Transat which is more of a leisure airline, but it did provide us a great rate to get to the other side of the country. Our flights ended...

Minion Monies: How much did my 2019 trip to Hawaii cost?

The following will be an accounting of my 2019 trip to Hawaii. If you've not read the blog, you can do so here. It might provide some extra context to the costs below! The Transportation ($699.67) The Flights ($414.52) To get to Hawaii, I booked a round trip Flight on Westjet between Vancouver and Honolulu. Everything is pretty straightforward for this one as we only had one set of flights to...