Cultural Activities

Traditional Irish Music Night

Experience the unique sound of Traditional Irish Music. Informal sessions with such varied instruments as tin whistles, flutes, pipes, violins, accordions and Irish drums.

Cinema

An informal and enjoyable way to further the conversational use of the English language.

Souvenir Shopping

Take a short unaccompanied stroll through the picturesque town of Westport to buy some essential souvenirs for your family at home! Take the opportunity to practice some “shop dialogue” from your lessons…. Soak up the local ambience & culture.

Jewellery Making

A local jeweller comes to the house and teaches you how to make personalised earrings / necklaces / bracelets – the perfect activity for a rainy day and the best souvenir for your friends and family at home!

Yvonne’s Cottage

Having had a long afternoon of cycling, stop in Yvonne’s Cottage where you can eat homemade scones, pancakes, teacakes and breads in an 1850′s cottage. Re-live a sense of the old world in this authentic traditional Irish cottage.

Cup Cake Decorating

An expert baker comes to the house with 4 cupcakes per child, all the icing, decorating tools and ornaments and teaches you all the cup cake decorating tricks! Nearly too beautiful to eat - your choice – devour them here, or bring them home to Mum!

Irish Dancing

A professional teacher comes either to the house or to a dance hall & teaches you some basic steps, jumps & turns and creates a whole routine with which to impress your friends & family back home!

Connemara National Park

Beautiful walks through heather covered tracks, surrounded by flora & fauna, birds & wildlife & the famous Connemara ponies.

Baking

Make use of the large kitchen and learn how to make a delicious traditional Irish soda bread! Super healthy crusty, brown bread – perfect hot from the oven with butter and the mackerel you caught that afternoon grilled on the barbeque! A recipe to take home & impress your parents….

Rosturk Castle

This is where my Mother was born and brought up. Sadly not in the family any longer, but just a few kilometres from our house and a fantastic beach picnic site!