In Between Days

Time just doesn’t move fast enough, I’m making all these great plans for holidays on Kilimanjaro and in Borneo but I still have to wait for them to arrive. It would be great if you could organise a holiday and then just go just like that!Not content with two forthcoming trips I have to think [...]

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Os-Tray-Ya

Was at another gig by Tim Freedman on Friday and naturally the place was filled with Australians, but I heard someone say the word Australia with that silent “L” that some Australian have when they talk about their country, they don’t say “Australia”, they say “Os-Tray-Ya”, hearing that word brings back happy memories of my [...]

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New views

Had an interesting day today, went walking in Glendalough with two friends, a stroll along the lake and then up the valley and over the Spink. One of my friends had never been walking in Wicklow before and she looked at everything with a new eye, everything was interesting, everything was beautiful, lovely as Glendalough [...]

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Useless Fact #3

“None of the so-called Dublin Mountains is high enough to meet the criteria required to claim mountain status. The Sugarloaf is the tallest ‘Dublin Mountain’ yet measures a mere 1389 feet above sea level. “
This is a source of great consternation to me and Irish people especially when foreigners come over and tell us that [...]

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