Planet Patrick 
Details Open 9am-6.30pm (except December, see here). Closed for January. €11 per person or €5 for students. For groups, click here. Tickets are NOT available online – you buy at the ticket office on the day. Ticket prices can be combined with 2 other local museums. Paid parking is available a short walk away in … Read more
I was driving from Palm Springs to San Diego and trusted in Google Maps to get me there the fastest way. The highway petered out quicker than I’d hoped, becoming a two way road that started to wind its way uphill. The colours change quickly in California in the Spring, from the blushing white of … Read more
At some point, Riverdance’s Lagan Company DID make it to Portland, Oregon, but it was not in the first six months and thus was not an ‘official’ target stop on this ‘Riverdance Revisited’ trip. In reality, I should have been going from Spokane WA to Eugene OR, but the whiff of a bargain was too … Read more
I am sitting nervously in a window seat on a tiny plane operated by Alaska Airlines, ready for a flight to Portland, OR. I am looking over my shoulder with good reason. I posted a very mildly snarky Tweet about my experience in first class and someone from their social media team responded! I haven’t … Read more
This little restaurant is hard to find. Google Maps is not always your friend. Can’t it just say, ‘turn into this faceless downtown building and go up the escalator to the left?’. Inside, it looks like the regional offices for Merkun Layfe Insurers, the kind of open-plan workplace where disappointed call-centre managers come to find … Read more
Alaska Air is obsessed with the size and shape of people’s carry-on luggage. The announcements start to set my teeth on edge. A first announcement at the gate invites passengers to check their roll along cases at the gate. A trickle of older passengers trundle forward, supported by their bag handles. A blonde gate agent … Read more
I am trialling a new writing series here on the website. Like everything now, I’ve branded it with Planet Patrick and so the series is called, well, The Planet Patrick Diaries. I have been using a journal since before I knew what a journal was (it used to be called a notebook) and with sporadic … Read more
[This blog is a transcript of the YouTube vlog of the same name, which is linked at the bottom of this page] Hatch My first paid job out of college was at 27 Lower Hatch Street, a 5 storey, Dublin Victorian building. It housed two independent production companies: Tyrone Productions which made programmes for Irish … Read more
In case you’re new here or haven’t yet spotted my twice-weekly videos, here is my marketing blurb about what the Planet Patrick YouTube channel is all about: If you’re new here, I’m a solo travel YouTuber with a taste for luxury. This series is called Riverdance Revisited and loosely traces the itinerary I followed as … Read more
I was in Canada last week. On one evening in Ottawa, the rain started to tumble in fat generous drops, what some Irish people might call ‘wet rain’, instantly soaking umbrellas and jeans and shoes. I walked along Bank Street, its rainbow flags and cannabis shops blending softly in the reflection of the wet pavement, … Read more