The Long Road to Asia
After months of planning, I’m going back to my travelling ways and heading back to Asia for a month. We’ll be taking in Malaysia, then Singapore, then Bali (thanks to the generosity of friends providing their holiday home for us). Then, probably with a heavy heart if not complete devastation, back to Dublin on a cold mid-November’s morning. So for the first time in a while, I’ll be getting back to blogging as I go – so the blog (even... Read More
International Inconvenience
For as long as I live, I will never forget my trip, in 2005 (as part of an extended tour of Europe) to Como, the beautiful Italian town backing straight out onto the lake of the same name. The longest journey of my life…at the time. Owing to our collective deepening financial crisis, we had begun consuming McDonalds food for both breakfast and lunch (and occasionally dinner), passing up on many of Europe’s culinary niceties in order... Read More
Hello London – Part II
Good morning Earls Court... After what can only be described (sarcastically) as another of the most restful nights sleeps’ of my life in London, we were back up at the crack of dawn. Once again, I should emphasise, it wasn’t particularly our choice to be up at the crack of dawn – more so, somebody in the room next to us had decided to go use the toilet first thing. And as I said in the last post, all the doors were strangely spring loaded so... Read More
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
300km in a Handshake.
As I’ve said before, Germany is very much reliant on websites that offer up car-sharing opportunities, what with the national train service being obscenely expensive on a majority of journeys (but very good value on others, it must be said) and not actually having any intercity national coach service. Strangely, I know this sounds stupid, but this situation is new to me – Ireland always had a train service and a half-competing national bus service,... Read More