Hello London

For the first time in a while (excepting our various trips back and forth to Ireland), we decided to take a weekend well and truly out of Germany. Since Anna had to go to London anyway, we decided we might as well make it a full trip, and I got cheap flights with British Airways (more on that in a separate article) to Heathrow, conveniently departing right after work on Friday evening, to return early Sunday evening – perfect!   The luxury... Read More

Why Not Live in Lovely Mainz?

Welcome to lovely Mainz! Lately we’ve been discussing where to go live next – at the moment, Anna walks to work in about 20 minutes in the morning, which is perfect, but I have a commute of over an hour to get to where I need to go, which isn’t so perfect. Assuming then that the ideal solution would be to go somewhere where we both had to commute for a less, but more equal distance, Mainz seemed like the perfect solution. Although where we live... Read More

When a Massage Offer is Five Too Many…

Allow me to show you a little something I like to call...the view... According to my clock, in five minutes I’ll have been in Malaysia for one month to the day. It’s definitely not a case of a month too many, but it’s hard to believe it’s actually only been just the one month. After the whole Penang/Paradiso Guesthouse affair (as in, having a McDonald’s billboard being changed outside my bedroom window overnight), we finally got round to... Read More

Settling into Malaysia…

Me commanding an end to crappy apartments... Buying a phone in Malaysia is a little different to Ireland – ever since the recession hit us hard back home, there’s now more and more staff and less and less customers, so you naturally end up with a situation where you’re always going to get served, provided you can prize a member of staff away from chatting to their colleagues. My phone store of choice over here, by comparison, had some unusual... Read More

Oslo – The City That Never Lets You Sleep.

Like I say, Oslo...not really a city for late-night arrivals... This weekend we decided, for a change of pace, to try and see how we got on (being such cheap-skates as myself and Anna usually are) in the supposed world’s most expensive city – Oslo, Norway. To begin with, things got off to an incredibly bad start, which can be summarised using just one company’s name; Ryanair. As part of our mercy mission to keep costs to an absolute minimum,... Read More

Germany Receives a Visitor…

Like I say, guess who puts much more effort into their decorations than we do in Shankill... Once again, Aer Lingus managed to surprise me by delivering relatively low (I say low in so far as the prices fluctuated wildly by around €50 from one day to the next) fares to Germany for travel over the weekend so with that, I decided to accompany Anna on her way home for Christmas. Needless to say, before that came a mountain load of work that meant no... Read More