Stories from travels in

Mary Murphy

Tall statue of a woman dressed in plastic in front of Keszthely palace

Zala, Hungary

Zala megye (county) in southwestern Hungary borders both Croatia and Slovenia. In pre-Hungarian days, the village of Zalavár was quite a metropolis. Today, it’s home

Zadar, Croatia

I’ve a very long bucket list of places I want to see before I depart for the hereafter. High up on that list was the

Čakovec, Croatia

Once the site of the first-century Roman town of Aquama, itself a marsh, a military post, and a legionnaire camp, the Croatian city of Čakovec

The Hungarian Maldives

We had a plan. Three stops, culminating with the hard-to-imagine Hungarian Maldives. Having never been to the Maldives, I had little to work with. I

The K Club, Straffan, Co. Kildare

When you can’t travel forward, and you don’t want to stay where you are, the only way to go is backwards. I’ve been making the