Abroad Magazine - Issue #13, May - July 2005
- Bask in the beautiful Basque Muriel Bolger takes three generations of her family to the French Basque country.
- The call of the Wild John Moran goes to the heat of equatorial Kenya for the ultimate safari experience in the most renowned game reserve in Africa, the Masai Mara.
- Go West! Head beyond the pale this summer for a relaxing break in Connemara. Jillian Bolger recommends 6 great locations for getting the most out of this beautiful region.
- Time out in Tunisia Yvette Dolan travelled to Tunisia and was beguiled by the country’s charm and discovered what it was like to be free as a bird in the desert.
- Missouri Tom Standun shoots the breeze with a real life cowboy and traces an Iriashman’s monumental road trip in the American mid-west.
- Air France Flights of Fancy Air France has chosen top French couturier, Christian Lacroix, to create a new staff uniform writes Yvette Dolan.
- Gothic Glory at Culloden The Hastings Culloden Estate and Spa lies on the south coast of Belfast Lough. Yvette Dolan enjoyed an early Spring Break surrounded by the Holywood Hills, serenely contemplating the breathtaking County Antrim views.
- Dubai or not to buy? A desert oasis like no other - home to the world’s first seven star hotel, and a supreme shopping mecca, Dubai is full of places where it is all too easy to part with holiday pocket money. But you don’t absolutely need the wallet of a chic sheik to enjoy a fabulous family holiday in Dubai, as Yvette Dolan recently found out.
- London’s Oriental Oasis On a spring break in London, Yvette Dolan bedded down in the urban oasis that is the Mandarin Oriental Hotel.
- Artfully Crafted Exhibition Hot on the heels of its hugely popular Art Deco show, London’s Victoria and Albert Museum has launched an exhibition celebrating the International Arts and Crafts movement writes Yvette Dolan.
- Mon Sherry Tom Doorley tempts his taste buds in Jerez, in the heart of Andalucia.
- Mellowed out in Malaysia. Yvette Dolan recently embarked upon her maiden visit to Malaysia, and thoroughly enjoyed the many and varied treats the nation offers.
- Rock and Roll Pól Ó Conghaile visits the famous Red Centre of Central Australia and discovers that tensions between tourism and the indigenous population are still far from resolved.
- Overseas Property Hot List Interest in foreign property investment is certainly a hot topic whether you are a property investor looking for a growth investment or someone interesting in finding that idyllic retirement property. Here, Kerri O’Connell, tax partner with Irish accountancy firm Hamill Spence O’Connell, uncovers some of the property investment hotspots for 2005.
- Be-Bop-a-Lula! Paris During a romantic break in Paris, Turtle Bunbury sidesteps the familiar and quicksteps with the best of them.
- Me ‘n My Hols
- The Pearl of the Adriatic The beautiful medieval city of Dubrovnik has been painstakingly reconstructed to almost its former glory since it was devastated by Yugoslav bombs in 1991, and Time Out discovers it makes for a chilled out city break.
- Cuba – a Cornucopia of Delights Che, Castro and communism may spring to mind, but Roisín Finlay finds there’s much more to this Caribbean island.
- Luxemburg – Dix Points!! Muriel Bolger spends a few days in the Grand Duchy and gives a decided thumbs up to Luxemburg.
- A Lifetime in Provence After biting the bullet himself, expat Seamus Martin outlines the highs and lows of buying property in southern France
- Chile: A Different Type of Down Under We love their wine and envy their landscape, but Myles McWeeney discovers many more reasons to visit this South American country.
- Berlin Rebuilt It doesn’t matter it you overrun it, overrule it, malign it, bomb it, demolish it, cut it in half, take away its capital status, or make a building site of it; Berlin just picks itself up, dusts itself off, and starts all over again. Gerry Mullins visits its latest incarnation of the German capital.
- Life Begins at 50 Finally someone has put together the ultimate list of places to see before you die. Hugh Oram takes a look at their findings.