Chambers at Large

As usual I did no research as to what I wanted to see and do when I was invited to the north of Scotland by friends I met on my trip to...

I’m a little late congratulating the county town of Leitrim for winning the Best Kept Towns Competition 2023, but better late than never!...

Dodging the showers has become a sport this summer, but having been told there is no such thing as bad weather in the UK and Ireland,...

I am a great supporter of zoos and wildlife parks where staff do their best to conserve and protect flora and fauna on our fragile planet...

Over thirty years ago I visited the Holy Land, travelling the length and breadth of Israel in order to see where Jesus was born, where he...

One of the reasons I wanted to go to Jordan was to visit the ancient city of Petra and I was not disappointed. It is a remarkable site...

I’ve wanted to go to Jordan for some considerable time and was delighted to find a tour that covered many of the highlights of the...

Watching Han Solo and Chewbacca piloting the Millennium Falcon for the first time back in the late seventies is one of my most vivid...

When asked to name an Irish poet the names that spring to mind will probably be the Nobel Laureates: W. B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney. The...

For several years I travelled through the county of Cavan in order to go to work and, like many people, didn’t take a second look at the...

Despite the glorious sunshine and temperatures of twenty to twenty two degrees, the local people still viewed the balmy days of February...

When I first mentioned to a friend that I was going to Funchal, the capital of the Portuguese island of Madeira off the Moroccan coast,...

After having visited several multicoloured towns and villages in Romania it came as a shock to see that the city of Bucharest was fifty...

One of the most fascinating places I visited in Romania was a fortified church, a very unique building dating back to the 13th century in...

One hundred miles away from Bran Castle is the town of Sighisoara (pronounced Siggy-sure-ah) the birthplace of Vlad the Impaler, Voivode...

Before going on holiday there are people who do a great deal of research into the country of choice: what there is to see, to do, what...

Dracula is one of my favourite books, a true horror story, therefore Transylvania was high on my list of places to visit and Romania did...

It has been a while since I visited England’s capital city, but as I had a day between flights out of Heathrow Airport I decided to visit...

The name Jane Austen would be familiar to many, bringing to mind perhaps rural landscapes, stately homes and an assortment of characters...

Having adopted an Okapi at Dublin Zoo last year I decided to make a return trip to see the baby that had been born back in August. Now I...