Culture Honey Touring: An Invitation to Celtic Way Pilgrimages
Years in the crafting, Culture Honey is proud to announce our new small group touring initiative, Culture Honey Touring! Beginning with our long-awaited Celtic…
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People of Note | Georgia Sanders, Founder of CultureHoney.com and Culture Honey Touring
Culture Honey’s Georgia Sanders: The Cultural Traveler “The urbanization of modern life has succeeded in exiling us from this fecund kinship with our mother…
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Announcing Culture Honey Touring & Celtic Way Pilgrimages! Join Us in 2021 to Sacred Ireland and Iona, Scotland!
Like Georgia said, we are all on our own journey. The reason for a tour is so that we can “journey this path together for a time, whatever our backgrounds, wherever we find ourself in life.”
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Saints of Ireland | In Search of Saint Brigid
Brigid’s reputation for holiness, wisdom, generosity to the poor, and good management drew hungry souls to Kildare like bees to honey. The convent expanded into a monastery that housed both men and women.
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Sacred Places | Experiencing Downpatrick, Northern Ireland
Like flocks of sheep scattered among the hills, history and legend link numerous places throughout the Emerald Isle to Saint Patrick.
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Lodging We Love | The Wilder Townhouse, Dublin, Ireland; Not Your Average Boutique Hotel
It’s about “maintaining a time gone by, but with modern amenities”, Bríd Mc Auliffe, the Assistant Manager, tells me. The Wilder is a boutique hotel, designed to give the traveler a feeling of comfort, a feeling of home.
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Saints of Ireland | Ciaran of Clonmacnoise
The Irish Saint Ciaran is remembered as the founder of Clonmacnoise, one of the greatest monasteries in Ireland. He is also numbered among the Twelve Apostles of Ireland.
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Sacred Places | Clonmacnoise, Ireland
“In a quiet water’d land…stands Saint Kieran’s city fair; And the warriors of Erin in their famous generations Slumber there.” Along the banks of…
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Sacred Places | Glendalough, Ireland – the Valley of the Two Lakes
Our walk was slow and deliberate. The story of Glendalough (pronounced ‘glen-da-lock’ and meaning ‘valley of two lakes’) and St. Kevin is one which takes time to sift through. It is a story of overcoming fears – the monster of the lake – and partaking on a journey to befriend that fear. It is a story of understanding and acceptance and, ultimately, peace.
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Sacred Places | Hill of Tara, Soul of Ireland
Layering in a wool sweater and rain jacket insulated me from the chill and damp. Upon entering the monument site, I faced one of several hilly embankments and steep trenches surrounding the hill and several monuments. My hiking shoes helped me remain upright as I climbed up and slid down the rain-soaked ground. Upon reaching the summit, the mist was swallowed by a brilliant blue sky uncovering a majestic and sparkling green Boyne River Valley.
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Sacred Places | Beautiful Glendalough, Ireland
A pilgrimage typically can take the form of an outward physical journey, often to a quiet or holy place, where an inward spiritual journey can take place. Seekers of God, of peace, of self and of healing participate in a journey of trust that God (Life!) will lead them on and speak to them in so that sustaining peace will be found for living. Not all pilgrimages (or pilgrims) are necessarily religious. Of all the sacred places that I visited in Ireland, it was continually and simply stated that ALL humans are on a journey and that ALL were welcome to these sites.
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Saints of Ireland | Columba Beckons a Deeper Journey
Yet his (Columba’s) greatest legacy is the founding and development of the Monastery City of Iona. Iona became one of the most influential worship, educational, missionary, and political centers of the Western World until its destruction by Vikings in the 9th century. Iona also became the ‘mother’ of scores of monasteries…
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