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Preparing for Paris
View Larger Map Delighted to find Google’s Paris street view. Memorised the way from my hotel to the venue (Centre Culturel Irlandais) using this application.
Bruxelles, oui ou non?
For reasons known only to myself (I’m baffled), for my holidays next week I’ve decided to fly into Nice and then travel back via Marseille, Paris and Brussels. I fly in on Tuesday 28th, will stay in Nice for a … Continue reading
No destination
Having wasted most of my week off last week (I guess I needed the downtime, I did feel something approaching ‘human’ by the end of my break.), I intend to fully make use of the next one coming up: May … Continue reading
A h-aon, a dhà, a trì, a ceathar déag
Warning: sweeping generalisations ahead. Paris looms, but first we leave for Dublin in the morning. How many times have I been? At least once, often twice and sometimes three times every year over the last twenty years. I only skipped … Continue reading
We’re not letting the bastards grind us down
U2 may be making it hard for us to go see them, and then have the gall to apologise but not acknowledge their mistakes, but we won’t be discouraged. Tickets schmickets. I’m sorted for Dublin, Paris and Brussels, have an … Continue reading
Embarrassment of Riches
Don’t ask me how, but I managed to secure 4 (update: make that 3, one’s spoken for) tickets (€ 365) for U2 in Brussels. But… I was already sorted for Brussels. Some heavy swapping will have to take place. (For … Continue reading
Powazak.com, brownglasses.com, hchamp.com: IRL
I met up with Rachel and the newly wedded Derek and Heather in Amsterdam last night. Derek I hadn’t seen since 1999 when he worked in my country for a while and we ended up traveling to Ireland together. It … Continue reading
C & C meet up
In a about an hour from now, I will be meeting my cousin C., the “my favourite cousin in the whole wide world” type of relative that one usually has way too few of in ones family. In fact I … Continue reading
