99 reasons to stay local on holidays

They are the places we visited as kids on Sunday drives, where we savoured 99s and rides on the ‘merries’. Three writers revisit their childhood haunts and experience Kinsale, Crosshaven and Cobh through grown-up eyes. Some of them travelled back with their own kids in tow, to explore what our local holiday destinations have to offer the next generation

KINSALE

There’s a special appeal and joy to revisting childhood haunts, and rambling back down real and remembered memory lanes.