Now that the cold weather has passed the ditches by the lakeshore here are teeming with frogs all getting down to business and putting on quite the display as they produce their frogspawn. You have to be stealth-like in your approach as they will dive and hide as soon as they see you. Stealth-like is not something three-year-olds are good at, so you can imagine the approach with twins. But they're quick learners and today we were able to crouch down and watch for quite a whil

Still water reflections never get tired. Jaw-droppingly beautiful here this evening. #Lake #LakeReflections #Cloudscape #Travel #Glamping #EcoLodge #BeautifulDestinations

Yurt's ordered and on their way. 🤗🤸 Now to decide where to position them...and where to place the windows and doors. After years of dreaming, musing and planning we're getting down to nitty gritty (giddy) details now! #Yurt #lake #idyllic #glamping #travel #beautifuldestination

It’s now Winter. I started this in Autumn. I need to hurry up before it's Spring. Lough Mardal has been going through a costume change. The trees have shed most of their leaves. The greens have gone yellow, the yellows have gone orange and the oranges are going brown. The ground is crunchy and it’s all very lovely. We’re no longer on wildflower-watch. No more lake dips. No more picnics. No more bilberry picking. No more weeding. There are now well-trodden paths through the

We don't really like the term 'Glamping', I personally prefer 'Boutique Camping' (as we called it in my Electric Picnic days). Whatever term you choose we have decided to set up an eco yurt campsite. We had been pondering an alternative way to earn a crust, one which didn't involve a numbing commute or working to fund someone else's retirement. So...a small number of nicely furnished, heated yurts positioned a distance from each other for privacy, each with its own lake view,

In August 2014 we spotted a patch of Donegal wilderness available for sale online. The photos showed a rather murky boggy hill, not particularly appealing. It did have two lakes though, the ad’ claimed, which piqued our interest. We had been keeping our eyes open for a spot of land for a business idea and in the absence of any better or affordable places we decided, unenthusiastically, to check it out. It rained non-stop the day we went to view it. The type of depressing day