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Hotel Horror

Travel April 16, 2023

John has been having a hard time lately; he has not been very well since a dentist pulled out one of his molars a...

Green-Wood Cemetery

Cemetery July 4, 2021

"By the 1860s, only Niagara Falls was drawing more visitors annually than Green-Wood. Twenty years before Central Park, the cemetery was effectively New York's...

The Brooklyn Greenway

Americas June 14, 2021

If you're ever in Brooklyn, why not take the Greenway? You can bike, walk, roll or run along the coast from Newtown Creek (opposite...

St Stephen’s Green, 1916

Europe April 27, 2021

On April 24 1916, a group of about 1,250 armed Irish Republicans launched an insurgency in the heart of Dublin. Demanding an end to...

Elizabethan Writers & Ireland

Europe April 21, 2021

One of the most surprising things about Youghal, to me anyway, was that Sir Walter Raleigh used to live there. His house, Myrtle Grove,...

10 Youghal Things

Europe April 16, 2021

We spent this March in a town named Youghal. Depending on who you ask, it's pronounced 'Y'all', 'yoll' or 'yowl' and derives from the...

The Great Irish Greenway

Europe April 16, 2021

The Dungarvan-Waterford Greenway is the longest in Ireland, 46 kilometers of peaceful pedalling and pacing through the green south-east. Following the line of a...

Dungarvan Days

Europe March 25, 2021

We recently spent a month in a coastal town in Waterford County in south-eastern Ireland that is divided into two parts: Dungarvan and Abbeyside,...

A Whirlwind Tour of Waterford

Europe March 10, 2021

A few weeks ago we moved house from Dublin to Dungarvan. The journey was divided in three discrete stages: a train to Waterford, a...

Touring South-West China with Davide Melia

Asia March 10, 2021

This week I’d like to introduce you to Davide Melia, creator of ‘South West China with Davide Melia’ on Patreon. Davide lives in the Dehong Dai...

The Battle of Clontarf Heritage Trail

History February 17, 2021

A couple of weeks ago I set out on a coastal run little suspecting that it would be paved with the storied bones of...

Would You Like to Go to Phoenix Park?

History March 7, 2021

Thunder and lightning is no larkWhen Dublin City is in the dark.So if you have any money go up to the parkAnd view the...

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Portal to Ur

The Other Gallipoli

Beach Walk

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