Blogs from Portlaoise, County Laois, Ireland, Europe

So flights all booked so its definetly happening now!!! SCARY!! Spent a while looking for flights and ended up getting the best deal on www.edreams.com ! The cheapest flights were €540 with Air Asia from London heathrow ( flights to london €25 with Ryan air to stansted or €50 with Aer lingus to heathrow) but i have read only OK reports about them so we ended up paying €650 each to go with Singapore airlines leaving directly from Dublin! They seem much friendlier and comfortable from what iv read on the net but only time will tell i guess. Travel time ----27 and a half hours!! Sounds horrible. 2 stopovers, 1 in london for 3 hours and Singapore for 2 hours! I can see us being fit to kill each other when we arrive and wanting ... read more

Hey all, So iv been trying to find a blog or book or something to help with both what to do and expect traveling to oz for a year and also the prep work thats involved. After spending what seems like 20 years trying to get the info i wanted i have decided to create my own blog as both a record of what was decided on and to maybe help people with their plans. Ok so from the beginning............... After meeting my girlfriend Melissa ( most beautiful woman in the world ;) ) about a year ago i was in the process of buying my first house. Once finalised and all the hassle of a mortgage we were talking about things we wished we had done and would like to do. I mentioned that i ... read more