Picture Heaven

The last two days have been great, it was the 20th Annual People’s Photography Exhibition where amateurs and a few professionals show their work on the railings of St Stephens Green. I participated last year and loved it so I was definitely going to take part this year. I wanted to do it properly this [...]

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Zozimus

It’s funny how sometimes you only learn how interesting your town is when you see it through other people’s eyes, what is ordinary to me is extraordinary to new eyes, so something as normal as the Book of Kells or the library where it is stored can get visitors so excited!And when you take people [...]

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Sun 21st

Aug 2001 – it’s my birthday and it’s also the day before I head off to Australia for a second year and I decide to have a garden party to celebrate these two momentous occasions. It’s the middle of the summer the weather is good, it’s the perfect time to have it – it rained, [...]

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The Island

In the film, The Island, the characters had never experienced so many things that we would consider normal and part of life, things that we consider so natural or obvious were not natural or obvious to these people. The one that struck me was kissing, imagine being 25 or 30 and having never kissed a [...]

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Trekkies

There was a documentary on telly this week about Trekkies, serious Star Trek fans. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to watch it as they all sounded like nutcases and lunatics but I decided to give it a go….It was fascinating, some people lived their life according to the philosophies of Star trek and the [...]

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invitations

I received my new passport in the post yesterday, it’s almost like a chapter of my life has ended, gone is the youthful, slightly unshaven, smiley 21-year old with the Hugh Grant hairstyle, now replaced by a more serious looking 31 year-old (wasn’t allowed to smile for this passport, the new rules for passport [...]

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Bicycle race….

At dinner today somehow the topic of a slow bicycle race came up. This was a race that we always had during our yearly sports day, naturally we had sack races, the three-legged race, egg and spoon (with potatoes), various sprints and obstacle races – all races that happen everywhere but one race was different, [...]

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The Ghost of Christmas Past….

Christmas on Kilimanjaro, it’s exciting just to think about it, it’s got the makings to be a memorable holiday and won’t be the first time I’ll be doing something slightly different for Christmas. Three and a half years ago when smoke clouds from raging bush fires suffocated Sydney on a rainy Christmas Eve, we set [...]

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Antarctica

Just thinking about my ultimate list of places to visit got me to thinking about Antarctica and why it’s so attractive to me. I think it’s all the stories of danger, adventure and survival against the elements that makes the place interesting, not just the pig-headedness of Scott or the leadership and resourcefulness of Shackleton. [...]

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As I’ve now got a little bit of a reputation for g…

As I’ve now got a little bit of a reputation for going on the occasional holiday people are always asking where I’m going to go next and that’s the problem, there’s so many places to see and things to do, it’s hard to choose between them all, but I have singled out one mini-holiday to [...]

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