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A family day out at Bedgebury Forest, UK

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
Photo: Catherine Mack

Photo: Catherine Mack

At the Tourism South East Awards, Bedgebury Forest and National Pinetum received the Tourism Excellence Award for Sports Tourism. On the same dayit won the Medium-sized Tourism and Leisure Award at the West Kent Business Awards. Catherine Mack headed down with family and bikes to see if it lived up to its ever-growing reputation…

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At home on a bike

Saturday, June 13th, 2009
kingfisher-shot-optIreland’s first National Bike Week starts tomorrow (14-21 June), which not only gives us the excuse to dig our bikes out from the back of the shed, but also to see where we can enjoy riding them.  At last, the wheels of change are in motion for Irish cyclists, as National Bike Week is part of a new National Cycle Policy Framework, the aim [...]

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All the magic of Paris without Mickey Mouse

Sunday, March 4th, 2007

copy-of-000_2145Don’t get mad, get even. That’s what I decided to do when my seven year old son came home from a friend’s house telling me that he had learned some French.  The Francophile in me beamed from ear to ear.  “Disneyland Pareeeees!” he announced proudly. This was not the time for a lecture on cultural globalisation.  It was time to show him one of the facts of life.  Click here to read more