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
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
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
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
It is time to admit it to myself. This blog has to change shape! For a while there, I was trying to write up each travel experience as well as documenting it on the Planet Patrick YouTube channel AND on Instagram. Or maybe it’s more accurate to say FEELING GUILTY about not doing it enough. … Read more
The vagaries of social media sometimes pass me by despite my love of all things tech and gear. Years after ‘stories’ became a thing, I’ve finally worked out that they are fun to use and was astonished when someone on Facebook commented on an Instagram post. I hadn’t paid enough attention to see that my … Read more
I happened to be in Reykjavík on the 17th of June this year, and thinking about what would be a fun way to spend my day. I had managed not to have to be quarantined thanks to PCR testing, as I am fully vaccinated, but at that time did not have a QR code vaccination … Read more
Who doesn’t want to stay in luxury? On a train? Falling asleep to the clickety-clackety sound as you speed through darkened countryside, awaking to a rich breakfast served by liveried staff members on silver trays… HOLD ON – that’s the Orient Express. The Caledonian Sleeper is a different kind of luxury: practical comfort. Let me … Read more