Monday, May 30th, 2011
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If you are a keen sea swimmer on holiday, there is always a list of dangers to look out for: unpredictable currents, jellyfish, sea urchins and, at worst, sharks. But few people point out one of the greatest dangers. Jet skis. On my recent swimming holiday in Croatia (click here to read the article) there was one [...]
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Tags: ethical travel, jet ski danger, responsible tourism, water safety, whale watching west cork
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Saturday, May 28th, 2011
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It is the beginning of April, and I’m sitting outside a small island cafe, sipping frothy coffee, overlooking a peacock blue harbour, before returning up the hill to a Mongolian yurt. For those who aren’t yet familiar with yurts, they are large round tents, built around a wooden trellis structure, with canvas stretched over the [...]
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Tags: Camping Ireland, Cape Clear, eco travel Ireland, green travel Ireland, yurt camp Ireland, Yurts Ireland
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Saturday, May 28th, 2011
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I was one of ten foot passengers on Fastnet Line’s new Swansea to Cork ferry three weeks ago. And three of those were my family members. Then a volcano erupted and, with it, thousands of travel plans. On our return journey we were among five hundred foot passengers, most of them wearing suits. The ferry [...]
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Tags: ash cloud, Fastnet, ferry ireland to Wales, ferry to Cork, ferry to Ireland
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Saturday, May 28th, 2011
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For some people golf is the reason for getting up in the mornings. However, most are unaware that it is one of the most damaging forms of tourism. There is no sugar coating it, I’m afraid. In many parts of the world, where resorts boast eighteen heavenly holes, others campaign to stop vast amounts of [...]
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Tags: eco golf, Golf Environment, Golf Mexico, green golf, IAGTO
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Thursday, May 26th, 2011
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Serendipity is sometimes a life saver. About ten years ago, at one of those crucial life turning points, when I didn’t know which road to take, I got a phone call from a friend, asking me to mind his cottage in the Wicklow Mountains for a few months. Within a week I, my husband [...]
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Tags: accommodation Wicklow, Ballymurrin, cottage Wicklow, ecotourism, green travel Ireland, The Old Milking Parlour Wicklow
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Thursday, May 26th, 2011
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The recession has forced many of our golden gates of tourism to open to new ideas and new visitors, indirectly creating a more responsible and accessible form of tourism. I recently visited the five star hotels of Parknasilla in Kerry and Castlemartyr in Cork which have opened their doors to us mere mortals. This is [...]
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Tags: Castlemartyr, county kerry, ecotourism Ireland, Ecotourism Ireland Kerry, green ireland, green travel, green travel Ireland, natural retreats, parknasilla
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Thursday, January 6th, 2011
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‘Working together in unison’ was the recurrent theme of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s message, following her release from house arrest in Burma just a few weeks ago. Words which uplifted so many and yet, in tourism, an industry where the word ‘Burma’ has been divisive to say the least, the idea of unity seems [...]
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Tags: Burma, travel to Burma
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Saturday, September 11th, 2010
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Water is a human right. In July this year, the United Nations declared that “Safe and clean drinking water and sanitation is a human right essential to the full enjoyment of life and all other human rights”. Not something most of us want to think about on holiday, really. However, with water so very central [...]
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Saturday, July 17th, 2010
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A campsite where there are just a few tents in a luscious meadow, no cars, a breakfast buffet, and a shebeen onsite is a rare thing. Even rarer, it does not involve an overnight ferry crossing, just a two hour crossing from Rosslare to Fishguard (stenaline.ie). From here, a thirty kilometres drive, taxi or indeed cycle, will take you through the gates of Fforest, one of the UK’s coolest campsites. It is just outside the village of Cilgerran, in the heart of Wales’ beach and beauty-filled Pembrokeshire.
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Tags: camping, ecotourism, glamping, green travel, green travel wales, wales
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Saturday, March 13th, 2010
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I was lazily musing over my St. Patrick’s Day break, (traditionally a long walk, and a get together with good friends and a few pints), when an invitation to a knitting weekend landed on my doormat. I felt as if middle age had just jumped up and grabbed me by the throat. What happened? I [...]
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