Articles by Aoibheann Mac Namara
Eat Well, Travel Well
Our travel writer Aoibheann McNamara heads to Spain for a taste of the macrobiotic life Sha Wellness Clinic in Alicante in Southern Spain was the perfect antidote to the howling wind and rain of Galway post Christmas. Sha is a world-renowned clinic that focuses on improving and lengthening people’s lives through a combination of Western [...]
Eat, Sha Wellness Clinic, Spain, travel
India | In Focus
Explore, india, Jo Lavelle, The Jo, travel
Taste Explosion
Treat your senses to an explosion of taste with some healthy recipes from Ard Bia and Nimmos Wild garlic, nettle and St Tola feta Bastilla with garlic yoghurt and harissa Pastilla or Bastilla (pronounced “bastiyya”), is an elaborate meat pie traditionally made of squab (fledgling pigeons). As squabs are often hard to get, shredded [...]
Eating Light
Have you ever been curious to find out how slim, healthy people stay slim and healthy? Aoibheann McNamara shows us how it’s done. I have done it all. Week long fasting, colonics, food combining, ayurvedic analysis, chewing techniques, eating for blood types, high level vitamin supplements, liver flushes. You name it, I have tried it. [...]
The Magic of the Manor
Travel writer Aoibheann McNamara roams at home this time and embarks on a culinary ramble through Tipperary, Cork and Waterford. I have travelled a lot abroad and have enjoyed it all very much. These days I feel that perhaps I should consider holidaying more in Ireland. Staycations are the new thing to do and where [...]
ballyvolane house, food, retreat, staycation, travel
Visiting Varanasi
Travel writer Aoibheann McNamara on the wonder and woes of Varanasi in part two of her Indian adventures. Mark Twain once said of Varanasi, “It is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together”. It is also dirtier then all other places [...]
Indian Intrigue
Our travel writer Aoibheann McNamara hits the otherworldly shores of India India is a vast microcosm of craziness and mystifying order, of 1.3 billion people, of countless religions and endless sun rises and sunsets. India is my great love affair. I have endured and been deeply pleasured by this country over ten times since I [...]
The heady delights of Marrakech
Marrakech, the unofficial capital and beating heart of Morocco is a short trip on Easy Jet from London, but a long stretch into the exotic. Over many trips, I have grown to love its tonic of French colonialism and North African unfamiliarity. The merger of the two creates today a dizzying destination of sophistication, cool [...]
The Other Side of New York
Heading to New York over Christmas, and looking for something unique? Brooklyn is a fantastically diverse area to explore and experience the relaxed vibe that can exist in New York. Try to make it your base from which to explore uptown and the east village…shopping here is vintage, retro chic with cool children’s shops and [...]
