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The Dark Hedges Today, we wanted to see a few of the natural sites while we were in Northern Ireland. First on the list was "The Dark Hedges". This is a road surrounded by spindly beech trees that form a beautiful and almost eerie tunnel. Over 150 trees

Maybe a week before we were set to board our flight, an article popped up randomly on my feed (or as random as anyone's content algorithms can be) about the link between the Appalachian Mountains of North America and all the mountains in Ireland. Before the continents drifted

In our teens, my sister and I unintentionally started a video series called the missing father chronicles. Part mockumentary, part faux tour guide, the series began one morning when we were on a family vacation in Wales. We were part of a tour group that had a morning free from

Driving We've been in Ireland 3 days so far, and that means 3 days of driving on the left side of the road. Remember which side to drive on hasn't been all that difficult; the hardest part is the little things... The muscle memory of how

The history of Ireland is rife with political and religious strife. But it is, perhaps, hard to full grasp the ramifications of this when you grew up in the United States, a country which is basically experiencing the first throws of preteen angst in comparison to the wizened tenure of

As brilliant as it sounds to take the overnight red eye from Nashville to London, theoretically tricking your brain out of jetlag, we ended up only tricking ourselves. Our last day in Nashville was a mix of frantic last-minute preparations and stagnant thumb twiddling as we waited for the 9: