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Discover Kilkenny – Part II
So picking up from where I left off in the last post, we were not far off our visit to the Smithwicks Brewery, which itself isn’t far off being gone for good. We wandered around Kilkenny for the gap in between, pacing up and down the streets, seeing what shops they have that we [...]
Discover Kilkenny
With us safely back in Ireland after our long trip around Asia, it wasn’t long before we got planning our next exit. Sadly, not enough of you have either booked hotels through the site, clicked on ads or any of the other subtle money-making things I’ve left around and with my day job not funding [...]
The Great Bali Road Trip – Part III
From the last thrilling installment of our road trip, we continued on after the waterfall tearing back up and over the same mountains we’d come down the previous night, passing out vehicles (and in one case, an ambulance) as we endeavoured seemingly to get back to the other side in record timing. We stopped [...]
The Great Bali Road Trip – Part II
Stopping just long enough at the volcano for a number of pictures, a quick debate on whether some of the ground we were looking at was in fact lava-tarred or just barren and a brief discussion on why we hadn’t stopped at the entry box to pay, we were back in the car and continuing [...]
The Great Bali Road Trip
Last place I left off, we were nearly at the dance. We sped along the narrow ‘highway’ for about 20 minutes onwards from the night market, before taking a sharp off-road detour so abrupt that the remainder of my Martabak was nearly catapulted through the air to the other side of the car. We rumbled [...]
Bali Life
After my last post, on my first few moments arriving into Bali, our trip to the supermarket and getting to the house, I was in desperate need of an Alaska-cold Bintang beer and a shower, in no order. From there on and for the next few days, life followed in much the completely same [...]
The Road to Loyalty
Last year, I became an honorary Aer Lingus Gold Circle club member. I will admit and acknowledge, straight from the off, that membership of the Gold Circle on an international level doesn’t at all carry the same connotations of importance and potential wealth as membership of say, Lufthansa or British Airway’s loyalty programme variants, but [...]
The Long Road to Bali
The next morning we were up even earlier than the crack of dawn to get down to our basement-located MRT station for the trip out to the airport. What I will give Singapore is, you can dodge taxi’s the vast majority of time (see my original rant on this topic, some posts back) which is [...]
The Tale of the Forgettable MasterCard & Universal Singapore
Bright and early the next morning, we got up at the crack of dawn after another less-than-restful night’s sleep at the V-Hotel, owing once again to the dictatorial air conditioning unit in our room which decided for everyone when the room was cool enough and would promptly switch off, leaving the room to heat up [...]
Rules of Singapore
The next morning in Singapore, we set about first trialling our luck with Singapore’s modern public transport system. To give them some credit, once you get past the nonsense of being dispensed a ticket that you subsequently have to return to a vending machine for a refund post-journey (as opposed to the machine just collecting [...]
