Travel Awards

P.J O'Donoghue Travel award Winner 2010

Submitted by sarahoshea on 9 June 2010 - 2:51pm
P.J O Donoghue Travel Award Winner 2010 P.J O'Donoghue Travel award Winner 2010
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EIL Travel Award Winner 2010

Travel Award Certificate 2010

Submitted by Brendan Kelleher on 27 May 2010 - 11:37am

Travel Award Certificate 2010

Travel Award Certificate 2010

2010 Mexico Travel Award Winner

Marie-Claire Walsh winner of the 2010 Mexico Travel Award: Marie-Claire Walsh, third year Business and Politics student at Trinty College Dublin, proudly displays her 2010 Mexico Travel Award Certificate

Marie-Claire Walsh talks about her inital thoughts on winning the 2010 Mexico Travel Award

Hola everyone. My name is Marie-Claire Walsh and I’m from Kildare. I was lucky enough to be chosen as this year’s EIL Ireland Travel Award winner to Mexico. I’m in third year in Trinity College, Dublin studying Business and Politics and I have just returned from spending an Erasmus year in Strasbroug, France. I decided to apply for the Travel Awards this year for many reasons, the main one being to build on the multi-cultures experiences I have had while on Erasmus.

EIL Travel Awards 2010: deadline this Friday and new awards!

The deadline for applications to the main group of EIL Travel Awards is this Friday (5pm 26th March). There's still time to get your application to us and there's a further group of Awards with deadlines in late April which you can apply to too. This later group includes two late additions to this years Awards: the opportunity to go to school and live with a family in Germany and the chance to be nominated for a scholarship to spend three months volunteering in Argentina.

EIL Travel Awards 2010

EIL Intercultural Learning are pleased to announce the launch of the 2010 Travel Awards.

Are you someone, or do you do you know somebody who would benefit from a challenging adventure in another culture? If the the answer is yes then you are invited to apply or to encourage somebody to apply for one of the 31 full or partially funded awards available this year including exciting locations such as Japan, Ecuador, Mexico, Argentina, Hong Kong or Nigeria amongst others.

Review of Euro Camp 2009

Put simply, Eurocamp is a the name of an initiative funded by the German state of Sachsen-Anhalt that brings young people from around Europe together for three weeks of volunteer work, performance workshops, daily excursions, and friendship. But putting it simply doesn’t do it justice. The easiest way to imagine it is to think of a summer language-camp - a couple of weeks in the Gaeltacht for instance.

¿Que Onda Folks?

Submitted by Brian Denvir on 24 August 2009 - 10:18am

¿Que Onda Folks? I´ve really settled into life here in Ventanilla on the South West Coast of Mexico. This week I started giving guitar lessons to some of the local boys, and have discovered first hand why this part of the world gets a reputation for being laid back...! Here, 4pm means anywhere between ten past 4 and 6pm, which makes scheduling lessons tricky! Still, they´re getting better, and I have a couple of Carlos Santanas here in the making!

The Best Exchange the World Has Ever Known

Submitted by Niamh Hill on 22 August 2009 - 8:50pm

Tuesday, August 11th   

After what felt like the longest flight known to man, we finally arrived in Hong Kong airport where we were met by Charmaine and Damon, two of the Hong Kong delegates.  The moment we left the airport to get to our coach we were hit by what felt like a wall of heat - the temperature and humidity being nothing like we ever have at home - that said this was Hong Kong, and we do live in Ireland!

Starting to feel like home.

Submitted by Karen O´ Regan on 18 August 2009 - 2:11am

Hola de Barra!It is my forth week here in Barra and I feel I am really beginning to settle into daily life here in this picturesque little fishing village! Today is Monday, and this morning when I went to my english class I was delighted to find the usual kids waiting for me, plus some new ones! I call it my english class as I really feel that I have put my own stamp on it, which I love! The children run towards me when they see me coming and they welcome me with hugs and the occasional flower!

Greetings from Paradise!

Submitted by Brian Denvir on 12 August 2009 - 1:10pm

Greetings from Paradise! It has been two weeks since I arrived in the beautiful pueblito of Ventanilla, and each day I find myself more and more tempted to destroy my passport and stay put! Ventanilla is breathtakingly beautiful, with 70km of white sands and clear oceans, a vast labyrinth of a lagoon infested with crocodiles, iguanas and tortugas, and an idyllic island of palm trees and hammocks a short boat trip away! Life moves at a much slower pace here, and it has taken a while to adjust to ´el ritmo tropical´.