Cycling the Radweg

Just what I needed... The last few weeks have been exceptionally busy over here in Frankfurt – I’ve finally gotten a job, which I know will come as a resounding relief to some folk, we’re looking at new places to live as our rent contract is up soon on our current apartment, and I’ve been doing other projects besides. I’m also travelling back to Ireland for an extremely short visit this week, and we’ve still been travelling up north at... Read More

Re-Uniting with an Old Friend…

And that was the last time I was seen in this get-up... It seems strange, but only this time last year, I took part in the ‘Wicklow 200’, an event that puts your love of cycling, or insanity, to the test. You get to cycle all around the Wicklow countryside for the afternoon for a distance of 200 kilometres, wondering why it’s taking you 3 hours to go between two towns that you know to be only 20 minutes drive apart, only to realise that the... Read More

The Empire of Mainhattan

I’d have had no idea what to call this blog post, only that the guy who drove us back to Frankfurt last night in our car-share (or ‘mitfahrgelegenheit’; see, we’re getting there!) informed me, by way of finishing off a sentence about how Frankfurt was full to the brim with bankers, that the city is informally also known as ‘Mainhattan’. It took me a while to get what was going on but since Frankfurt sits on the river Main, and there are... Read More

A Whole World of Pain…

Setting off for the Wicklow hills... This year I, once again, took part in the Wicklow 200 cycle ‘challenge’, which covers 200 kilometres of spectacular Wicklow countryside, most of which you don’t notice as you struggle with every ounce of energy to just get round the course. I first did it back in 2008, and left from UCD, chatting with another cyclist all the way up into Stepaside and towards Enniskerry, where I had my first real experience... Read More