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

EVIDENCE of the recovery and confidence in the Munster hotel sector is seen by the combined €3.5 million spent in just two hotel refurbishment projects alone, at the waterfront Trident Hotel in Kinsale harbour, and at the Clayton Hotel on Cork city’s quays.