by leandra | May 30, 2018 | Food & Drink, Travel, USA Travel
Where We Stayed I decided on Morganton as a base for our waterfall weekend and found an Airbnb rental within a ten minute walk of restaurants and breweries downtown. We had our own en suite bathroom with a tub, large four poster king bed and Roku access (which we used...
by leandra | Apr 19, 2018 | Food & Drink, International Travel, Uncategorized
Open Baladin. We decided to try all the smoked beers! Eric got ‘Jenny the Smoker’ scotch ale and I had the Open Garden Smoked Ale. We decided to split the stronger Imperial Ghisa, a smoked stout from Lambrate. I remembered later that we had this beer at...
by leandra | Mar 2, 2018 | Food & Drink, International Travel, Travel
Toner’s — Located about a ten minute walk from our hotel, this pub was listed as the best place to try Guinness in Dublin so, of course, we had to check it out. On Friday night it was absolutely jam packed and after 15 minutes of standing, I managed to grab us a...
by leandra | Mar 1, 2018 | International Travel, Travel
I found a crazy cheap rental car deal for the weekend so on Saturday we headed south out of town for the day toward Wicklow Mountains National Park. Light rain turned to light snow and as we climbed, the views became stark and wintery. Thankfully the roads...
by leandra | Jan 28, 2018 | Food & Drink, International Travel, Travel
Our flight landed early at Heathrow and because we have done this trip over a dozen times it took us no time at all to get to our hotel in Earl’s Court. As it was Saturday morning there were (unsurprisingly) no rooms available at 8am. So we dropped off our...