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The busier life is the less I write here and since coming back from holiday it feels like work has been nonstop, so I thought I would try and write a round up every week, we’ll see.. This last weekend however I started to look at cars. I hate buying a car, until I get one [...]

I came across these videos on Youtube due to mail from DECB LINK. They are a great inturuption a to over worked Tuesday afternoon. The first video has had more than four million views on Youtube so far so it really does make Sophie Merry an Irish Youtube phenomenon. Enjoy Though I think this one is much [...]

As usual I headed out on Monday to to watch and cheer the runners in this years Dublin Marathon. Fortunatly it was another good day for running and didn’t rain during the “race”. I find it motivating watching all these runner pass me, all shapes and sizes that have trained for a long time – it [...]

Today was just one of those days at work – I was working on websites that I don’t find very interesting so off I went wandering on the internet and came across My Charity.ie. Love to do something I though – but I have no time… Not having time shouldn’t be a bar to raising money [...]

Today I put the Euros back in my pocket, for the last three weeks I have been spending Czech crowns, it has been fun. For the first time in 15 years I am sad to be going home, strange I did not see this coming. When I lived in Glasgow I had this feeling for a [...]

Like most Czech Hotels the service in Hotel Adam is fairly disappointing. The staff are not friendly and do not know how to smile with the exception of the female manager - who was the only one who managed to simile and be chatty. There is good and bad to be said about this hotel - [...]

It is 9.25pm and we’re in bed already - me with laptop on my knees writing this. We are in Spindleruv Mlyn, which is in Krkonose National Park in the North of the Czech Republic. We’re in bed already because we walked over 20km up in the mountains for about seven hours and then we had [...]

We both need a good long holiday. We haven’t really taken the time for one this year and one of the consequences is that we are getting a bit tired a lot of the time. So my bright idea last week was to get away for the long weekend to Connemara. We have been to Connemara [...]

I have heard this in this form and a few others - like you are what you think - I like that one too. As for being what I eat if this is the case I would have morphed into an Indian at some point, a pizza at others, and maybe a hamburger at other times. [...]

This is an unashamed plug for a friend who runs a walking holidays company. Macs Adventures arrange hill walking tour and cycling holidays all over Europe. Being a bit of a hill walker myself this gets my interest. However I first thought when looking at walking holidays - Why would I pay for someone to arrange [...]

Getting a bit tired of paying way over the odds for weekends cottage rentals we decided to try a hostel last weekend.  I managed to find Cnocnafeola a hostel in the Mourne Mountains on the internet.  I wonder how we used to find places pre-internet, for so many things now I along with millions of [...]

Hopefully next week I will be back to adding some photos here and writing more often again.  I had moved web hosting for this a few other sites on the same server.  It was a job I thought might take a day…  Oh I wish.  Anyway it is all done, but the transfer of the [...]

We were in Prague last weekend sorting out some of the details for our up-coming wedding, came away feeling like I should feel rested - but felt quite the opposite. We were there for 5 days,  when there is so little time every meeting gets squashed in. I must say, for someone like [...]

My other half decided today that my old T shirts needed replaced and suggested with an iron will that I go with her shopping to find some that don’t look like I have been wearing them for ten years. So off we went to Marks today in Liffey Valley.  I picked up a few T shirts [...]

I hardly ever consider getting the bus a feasible option.  I used to get the bus quite often, but I discovered that it is much easier for me to walk around Dublin or what has become more normal, just grab a taxi. Yesterday I got the bus for only the second time this year.  My other [...]

Ah, Brian Cowan, bless his cotton socks - as an ex of mine used to say. But really he waited around so long to get the top job, to be King of Ireland, head of all he can see - and it came tumbling down around his feet. No wonder he is so angry - I walked [...]

If you are waiting on me getting back to you or feel like I am ignoring your emails, this is why.  I have had problems with my eyes for the last year and i have had an operation on each eye to fix them.  It has worked great on my right eye - however my [...]

I thought I had a great plan of action to avoid the hassle of the paperwork in the Czech Republic re getting married in Prague.  But the planning of the civil service in Ireland dashed that plan. Neither of us are Irish, we live here and plan to get married in Prague in Sep.  This is [...]

I read this interesting article in the Irish Times.  At the end of the article I was left asking myself - Do Catholics Commit more crimes than Protestants?   I see little evidence that this is true - it is easy to compare the crime rates between the UK and here - but hold on, there [...]

So following up from my last post where I was saying, (complaining), how tired I was - I decided that the world did not deserve me and I went into hiding for a week.  Well that is what it felt like - I turned off the computer, switched off the news, bought no newspapers, went [...]

I feel like I have tired for a long, long time.  I find it hard to remember the last time I was brimming full of energy.  Last September I think - and that in itself answers one of my questions. I did not feel this tiredness until I was 27.  At that point in my life [...]

Went off to the cinema last night to see Marley & Me, it is a nice easy feel good movie that has many of the women in the audience going ahhh quite often.  I must say, much to my surprise, I didn’t hate it.  In fact I enjoyed the movie. Marley and Me follows many traditional [...]

This was the first place we stayed in the Rockies, Banff is one of the most expensive places in Canada to stay, more expensive than a bloody good hotel in Vancouver - this surprised me.  I thought we would head into the countryside and hotels would be cheaper and the areas would be quite quiet. [...]

I have always found this a strange country.  So close to the UK and Scotland, but so different.  The government here is very corrupt, acts constantly against its own, and it lets business run the country - while they seem unable to deal with real problems. The latest farce is the case of censorship of the [...]