Welcome! Welcome! So I’m Marteen and this is my website Marteen Lane – Tour Guide & Travel Writer (formally It’s A Travelful Life). What has inspired me to write? Well I’m a tour guide from Ireland with a BA in Heritage Studies. I’ve a passion for Irish culture and heritage and I want to share that passion with you. When I’m not travelling around my little country I’m travelling around other countries seeking cultural experiences.
It’s all go here as I plan on returning to college in September to obtain my honours degree in Heritage Studies. This will bring me one step closer to my dream of working in museum curatorship, heritage conservation or cultural tourism. I’m also devising a walking tour of my home town, to start summer 2018. There is a lot of history around where I live and I would love to share that with visitors. With the revamp of my website, I’m pitching articles on travel, culture, and heritage to different publications as a freelance writer.
I believe that experiencing cultural heritage responsibly and expressing our own individual cultures is a human right. But what is Cultural Heritage? According to the Culture In Development website:
Cultural Heritage is an expression of the ways of living developed by a community and passed on from generation to generation, including customs, practices, places, objects, artistic expressions and values. Cultural Heritage is often expressed as either Intangible or Tangible Cultural Heritage.
Who knows where my adventures will take me. I hope you will join me on this journey and enjoy reading my posts. If you would like me for freelance work or if you have any questions about Ireland, you can contact me at marteen.lane@gmail.com.
Marteen x
Why would you move to Canada! :O
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Why not? It’s a two year working holiday visa and a chance for me to travel, experience a new country and make new friends 😊
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100% agree about Cupan Tae ❤ Miss it
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Hi Marteen! I’m loving your blog! Found it through the chill.ie e-book which was sent to me for review. Definitely enjoying reading your stuff and can’t wait to hear about those Canadia exploits!
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Awww Rachel thank you so much! That really means a lot. That’s so cool you were sent to review the ebook! I’ve been blogging for over a year as a lifestyle blogger and recently rebranded as a travel blogger, new look and new name for blog 🙂 Best decision I made!
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Well, well done! It’s a beautiful layout and I’m sure it’ll keep growing and growing! 😀
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I hope so 🙂 I’m loving your blog and just checked out your About page, that’s cool your fiance is also a tour guide.
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Yeah he is! With the ol’ Paddywagon. Are you an independent guide or are you on coaches, too?
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I work with The Quiet Man Museum in Cong. It’s been closed for the winter but is reopening next week. I show people around the locations that were used in the film and serve customers in the gift shop. I also give a ghost tour for the public and the PaddyWagon buses with the museum. I can’t wait to get back to work. We get a lot of PaddyWagon buses coming through the village and a lot of CIE buses book The Quiet Man tour. Patrick from PaddyWagon was create for rounding up the troops for the ghost tour 🙂
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Oh awesome! I tell Tiernan to come say hi next time he’s around. He actually did a tour that went through Cong today! That ghost tour sounds cool, though. I’ll put that on my bucket list!
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Do! Yeah, I dress up as a monk for it 😀
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Just came across your blog through ITWBN and I love it. So happy I found it. Goodluck in Canada, I’ll be looking out for updates 😊
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Ah thanks Kellie!!!! 😊 That’s so nice of you to say. I’m glad you found my blog. Are you coming to the ITWBN birthday bash on Sunday?
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No unfortunately I’m not. I’m based all the way over on the East in Dublin with 3 kids and expecting another. Maybe next year 😊
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Ah that’s a pity! It isn’t easy getting over. There’ve been a few blogging events in Dublin that I haven’t been able to make. Yeah hopefully next year 😊
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Hey Marteen, you really have a great blog ! Looking forward for travel stories from Canada 🙂
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Awww thank you guys, really appreciate it 😊
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Hi! I would like to nominate you for a Blogger Recognition Award. If you wish to accept it, you can find the details here: https://travelhummingbirds.wordpress.com/2016/06/15/blogger-recognition-award/ Good luck, Natalia
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Aww thank you so much Natalia 😊 I’m honoured.
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It was my pleasure to nominate you.
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I just came across your blog in itwbn and I have to say it looks amazing so far 🙂 I wish you all the best for your coming trip
CJ 🙂
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Awww thank you so much CJ! 😊
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Hi! I was so imperessed with your travel blog that I nominated you for the Travel Tag. If you are interested, you can find the Travel Tag and the rules for accepting it here: https://travelhummingbirds.wordpress.com/2016/12/19/the-travel-tag/
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