With so many Spa treatments available it can be a challenge to know which one you should chose. In Fota Island Spa alone, for example, we offer over 60 treatments! So how do you decide which one you want? To try and sort out through all these treatments, I decided…

Time goes quite fast, I have been in Ireland for nearly two months. Last weekend I went to visit the Barryscourt Castle, located near the village of Carrigtwohill. It is a fine example of an Irish tower house with lots of defensive features such as murder hole, crenulations and stumble…

Being a woman myself, I know that as women, we all dream of that “perfect body”! And even if we don’t exactly spend time dreaming of it, we wouldn’t be appalled if one day we woke up looking like we could be on the cover of a magazine. But instead…

Ok, you might let me know if you agree with this or not – but if you have never been to a spinning class, is it or is it not true that there is this “it’s the toughest thing you’ll ever do in your life” terrorizing tale around it? I…

Hi readers! For my fourth blog I have chosen to speak about a painting, as art is a keen interest of mine. The canvas I have chosen to speak about has a typically Irish theme: This is an oil on board (11”x14”) called :the Tall Tale and the painter is…

You know that moment when you find yourself standing in the middle of the beauty aisle in Tesco, or Boots, looking through the hundreds of different moisturisers, cleansers…your boyfriend/husband/significant other is next to you telling you “c’mon, hurry up, they’re all the same”, and you look at him, and you…

NOTE: Exciting competition at the end of this blog! “If I was a woman, maybe I’d go, but I’m not!” “I haven’t been; it’s for women to go and gossip” “That’s for women to go and get their girly things done, I don’t need that” I’ll give you a few…

This weekend I went back to the Fota House & Arboretum with one of my roommates and we also went to Fota Wildlife Park. Its very accessible from Fota Island Resort Hotel Cork. The Park is nice and spacious with most of animals free to roam and you can watch…

So here I am: first week working in Fota Island Resort Hotel Ireland, and first time writing a blog. As the popular saying dictates “there’s a first time for everything” and hopefully today will mark the beginning of a series of blogs you’ll enjoy reading (that’s the aspiration anyway!). As…

Hi everyone! Here is the second part of my Irish adventure. This weekend I finally found the way to go to Fota House and Arboretum from Fota Island Resort, walking. I spent approximately 50 minutes walking from the Cork Hotel to go there, but I took the longer and more…

Good afternoon everyone. Let me introduce myself, I am Marion and I am coming from the west side of France near the city of Angers. I have finished my third year in University in France where I am studying LEA: Languages Applied to Trade and Law, where I learn English,…

This is starting to be the end of my Irish adventure. I find it hard to believe it’s been three months since I first came to Ireland. After my arrival I spent my first weeks in a language course with almost 30 other interns. In the beginning we were just…