Staycation planning: Why make a meal out of it?

The secret to a great staycation is knowing what to put in your belly, and where to lay your head!

Look out for local cheesemakers, charcutiers and fish smokers to experience the finest of Irish produce as you explore the country.

After three years of pandemic restrictions, there does appear to be a cabin fever in the air, a stir crazy desire to be ‘anywhere else but here’, especially if ‘anywhere else’ some permanently sunkissed continental idyll.

I must confess, the Progeny were on my case to do the same, expressing a strong desire for guaranteed sun and a warning that none of my ‘interesting’ additions such as fine dining restaurants and ‘culturally stimulating’ day trips would be tolerated so I resigned myself to a fate worse than package holidays and cranked up the interweb.