TIPS AND TRICKS TO HELP YOU TRAVEL SMARTER
THE REST OF EUROPE was suffering a midsummer heat wave, but on the Irish coast there were cool gray skies, soft rain, and bursts of sunlight on heathered hills. As I drove south from Dublin with my teenage sons, Matt and Felix, the sea was pewter and calm. We had just moved from England to Ireland and were on our way to explore Wicklow Mountains National Park, which is less than an hour from the city and has been a playground for Dubliners since it was established in 1991. County Wicklow, known as the Garden of Ireland, is rich in locally grown food, and has mountains, moorland,