Fall and Winter have been a bit dark and dreary here in Galway but we’re trying to make the most of it!  Thankfully Galway is so stinking cute, we can’t help ourselves but get out and enjoy the weather woes together! One of the biggest events of the year was the Macnas Halloween Parade. Macnas…

We have been collecting rainbow photos for a while and I think we have finally accumulated enough to have a blog post. According to local Irish sources (an 8 year-old Kelley babysits), there is a inverse relationship between the size of the country and the size of the rainbow. I am not sure of the…

After a week in Galway, Kelley, my parents, and I flew to Edinburgh, Scotland. It has been the historical, cultural, and political heart of Scotland since the 12th century. To get acquainted with the city we took a walking tour along the Royal Mile, which is the central artery of the old city. Our tour…

In early October, my parents crossed the pond for a 2 week trip to the United Kingdom and Ireland. Kelley and I met them in London since despite being so close we had not been there yet. When doing some research on accommodations and museums, I was flabbergasted by the cost of everything in London….

A couple of days after we returned from Spain and Portugal, we were off again to Belgium. I had a kickoff meeting for a new project on Thursday and then Kelley joined me on Friday evening – perfect! Brussels is a funky place. On one hand, it is the political center of the European Union…

At the end of August, Kelley and I took a week long trip to Portugal and Spain. Our first stop was Lisbon, Portugal, which is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Western Europe. In 1,200 BC Phoenician’s settled there, then it was ruled by the Romans, Germans, and Arabs (Moors) before 1147 when Portuguese crusaders…

In mid-July, we decided to try our luck catching a boat ride out to the island of Skellig Michael off the South-West coast of Ireland. We were tipped off to this place by someone keeping watch over the Aughnanure Castle who shared a glowing review of this seemingly magical place!  She talked about the excitement of…

Alrighty, well with the story of how we ended up here over…..all we really have left is walking….walking…..and more walking….. so I’ll keep it to mostly pictures with some bits and babbles along the way. So on the morning of day 4, we set off from the Rifugio Elisabetta en route to Courmayeur.  After the initial climb, things…

For months Kelley and I (Kelley: mostly just Matt) toiled over countless guidebooks trying to decide what to do during our 12 days in the Alps. We had a roundtrip ticket to Geneva, Switzerland and lots of ideas but no definitive plan. We could walk the… Tour of Mont Blanc – Looks cool but maybe…

Kelley and I have not written much or posted many pictures about Galway. As we have told all of our guests, there is not much to see in Galway from a tourism perspective, you have to experience it… sure there are old walls, the underwhelming Spanish Arch, and the church where Christopher Columbus got his…

As you might imagine, Kelley and I are not big city people. We would much rather frolic through flowery meadows and gallivant in the mountains than look at another church or see another gallery of art. However, I think Paris is different. Paris has been one of the world’s greatest metropolises for over a thousand…