The three to four months I spent in Georgia were thoroughly enjoyable, though I didn’t manage to take as much time as I would’ve liked to explore outside of the city. Met with challenges from both a lack of money and trying to create a stable work schedule teaching English online. There wasn’t much freedom …
It didn’t take me long to settle into life in Tbilisi. Albeit a very quiet and not-so-social life due to my working hours at the time. I’d found a flatshare in one of the more local areas of town. The entrance, hidden away through a tunnel the width of a car, leads into a long …
Fashion Revolution Vietnam: a group of volunteers brought together through the common belief that looking good should not come at a cost to others or to the environment. We are part of a larger non-profit organisation which has a presence in over 100 countries around the world, working to demand greater transparency in the fashion …
Since returning to Hanoi I have been on a voyage of self-discovery and self-mastery. Pushing myself, striving towards personal goals. A big part of this journey has been working with the Fashion Revolution Vietnam team. Our purpose is to increase people’s knowledge in a bid for us all, as consumers, to work together to make …
What have I been doing while taking so long to tell you my Irish story? Well, it hasn’t all been plain sailing, there have been many ups and downs along the way, but here is a little run down of some highlights of the last seven months. Alongside striving to improve the website you are …
It has been nearly two months since my last blog post, as I have failed to feel inspired to sit down and share how my time has passed. It is not that nothing noteworthy has happened, on the contrary, I have had both a wonderful weekend at a local national park on a yoga retreat …
In a new vow to make the most of our weekends, to find enjoyable ways both to stay in the city and opportunities for short escapes, Laura and I have made a running start over the past two weeks. The first weekend of April was an adventurous one. I borrowed a motorbike from a housemate …
Not long after my arrival in Hanoi , Vietnam was celebrating Tet holiday (Lunar New Year). Everything was closing and many people were leaving town for a week. This resulted in two mini adventures I had not expected. The first, was spending just under a week in Thailand on Koh Chang island. A blissful retreat, …
A couple of days after the peace of Taman Negara I was boarding a flight to Vietnam, returning to Hanoi, the starting destination for my travels three odd years ago. It was an odd sensation, feeling as though my journey had come full circle and, knowing the many changes that have occurred within during the …
Tarraleah. The town that’s not a town. At least, not anymore. Originally built in the 1930s to house employees for the local Hydro plant, an automation of much of the machinery resulted in a drastic cut in the number of workers. Now, the ‘town’ is all one property owned by a local family and has …
