Great escape packed with activities in Connemara, Co Galway

Esther N McCarthy relives her youth with a weekend in the Delphi Adventure Resort centre, this time with the family in tow.

IT’S 1993, the bus from Cork unloads teenage me amidst an unruly transition year group into the heart of Connemara. It was a weekend of bunking in the hostel, flirting with the surf instructors, kayaking along the Kilary fjord and looking for something called fauna in The Burren to cover the geography aspect of the trip. Best weekend ever.

2014 (stop doing the maths, I’m old, ok) and I’m returning, married, 2 kids, pregnant. I’m not the only one who’s changed.