May Books

I was in two minds about Dan Simmons’ new book, I read one of his Greek books and I couldn’t get into it at all but The Terror was in more familiar territory, the Antarctic! Or at least so I thought, I foolishly skimmed the blurb on the back and picked up the words “Crozier”, [...]

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Sharing Words

Reading has always been a solitary pleasure, curled up with my head propped on my hand and a book in front of me is probably the perfect way to relax, and the less people around the better. I occasionally talk about books with friends and more and more with my parents around the dinner table but [...]

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Roots

And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack
And you may find yourself in another part of the world
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife
And you may ask yourself-Well…How did I get here?
And it would be a [...]

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Curiouser and curiouser

Now that I’m a resident of Utrecht, I guess it’s time to learn more about the city itself and even though I am hardly a fan of museums, I thought I’d give the local ones a try. The choice was between a religious museum, a museum of mechanical musical instruments and the Central Museum, and [...]

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Strange Individuals

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Lurking

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Vandalism/Art

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Art/Vandalism

In Ireland, graffiti is nothing but vandalism, it’s more of a bulletin board, giving us details of who loves who, who may be gay, which football team “rulez”, why the “RA” are wonderful or who’s just generally in a bad mood and wants to do some damage, it can never be confused with art. It’s only [...]

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Day Tripper

Apart from tulips, clogs, windwills, drugs, legalised prostitution and canals, what is The Netherlands best known for?
That’s right – bicycles.
As luck would have it, my apartment comes with its own bicycle and I thought that today I’d give it a try. Since Amsterdam is only 30km away from Utrecht I’d had the notion that it might be [...]

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Alternate Views

When it comes to photography, we’re always trying to find some new angle, something obvious that no-one has ever noticed before and as a result we’re open to new ideas and philosophies but one of the strangest ones I’ve heard is to go to a famous monument or building and while the rest of the tourists are [...]

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