A change of scenery is as good as a break, is how the old adage goes. I love to travel the world as much as I love to explore my local autonomous community - Aragon, in Spain. Sometimes even only a day of exploring my own “backyard” can be refreshing and facilitate a total reset in my energy and approach. Are you embracing the opportunity to travel post-covid? Read on to consider some of the benefits!

One of my most treasured travel souvenirs is from my first long-distance train journey, from Munich to Berlin in Germany. I collected a piece of the Berlin Wall in early 1990, I was 17 years old and doing an exchange program in Ottobrunn, outside Munich. When I returned to Galway, my home town, my family called it my piece of “rubble” but I have treasured it forever. It was a symbol of my first major trip away from Ireland on my own and also my first cross-country train journey, fuelling my passion for travel and exploring for the rest of my life.