Category: Destinations
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Donegal and Lough Eske Castle: up here it’s different
Read more: Donegal and Lough Eske Castle: up here it’s differentby Padraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua Up here it’s different! Pat Gallagher of the late lamented Goats Don’t Shave wrote a cracking song called “Las Vegas in the Hills of Donegal”. The chorus goes like this: And if I…
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Istanbul 2013 – 5 new discoveries
Read more: Istanbul 2013 – 5 new discoveriesby Padraic Gilligan, Vice President, Ovation Global DMC Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence is a long and sometimes tedious story of love gone wrong, told in the first person by an intensely annoying, socially privileged narrator…
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Bodrum: Wonders Never Cease!
Read more: Bodrum: Wonders Never Cease!by Padraic Gilligan, Vice President, Ovation Global DMC Bodrum used to be called Halicarnassus, was the birthplace of Herodotus, the father of History and was home to one of the seven wonders of the ancient world – the Mausoleum…
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Cycling the Ring of Kerry – 180km in a day
Read more: Cycling the Ring of Kerry – 180km in a dayby Padraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua Cycling the Ring of Kerry – sometime after 04:00 A thin frame of bright light leaks out in the gap between the heavy drapes and the wall of the room. You reach for…
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Shining White Nights in St Petersburg – Astoria 100
Read more: Shining White Nights in St Petersburg – Astoria 100by Padraic Giligan, Vice President Industry Relations, MCI Astoria 100 – A Grand and Lavish Affair I have a lot to say about St Petersburg but I’ll start with the party because, after all, that’s the reason I went…
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Villa Kennedy: “rus in urbe” seclusion in Frankfurt
Read more: Villa Kennedy: “rus in urbe” seclusion in Frankfurtby Padraic Gilligan, Vice President, Industry Relations, MCI Defining the Destination Experience Destinations need hotels like Villa Kennedy. Hotels like Villa Kennedy lift the destination experience beyond the ordinary and alter outdated destination perceptions and lazy prejudices. When you…
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Cancun’s Secrets
Read more: Cancun’s Secretsby Padraic Gilligan, Vice President, Ovation Global DMC I Like Mexicans In a previous post I stated that I’d never met a Neapolitan that I didn’t like. The same applies to Mexicans and probably for the same reasons. It’s their relentless…
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The Best Place to Holiday in Ireland
Read more: The Best Place to Holiday in Irelandby Padraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua First published in 2013 I’m re-publishing this post to mark the launch of Fáilte Ireland’s new tourism brand – Ireland’s Hidden Heartlands Cornafurrish is the townland in Co Offaly where my late father…
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Naples – 5 things you should know
Read more: Naples – 5 things you should knowby Padraic Gilligan, Vice President, Ovation Global DMC Naples and Ireland have many things in common none more so than the cast-iron connection, in both locations, between people and place. Ireland, as a destination, is largely defined in and…
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Italian Diary – a Week in Italy
Read more: Italian Diary – a Week in ItalyBy Padraic Gilligan, Vice President, Ovation Global DMC Florence – 18 April 2013 I’ve visited Rocco Forte hotels in Brussels, Berlin, Prague and St Petersburg but this was my first visit to a Rocco Forte property in Italy, the…
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