Fict: Katherine Dolan's blog

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Portal to Ur

Last year I was lucky enough to fulfil a lifelong dream of visiting the British Museum in London, which is arguably the world’s most illustrious stash of loot. One of the most fascinating halls was devoted to objects from Mesopotamia, particularly the Sumerian treasures. I've recently been reminded of the exhibition because I've been reading some interesting articles by Michael...

Running the Mozart 100

Last September we went to Salzburg so I could run in the Mozart 100 ultramarathon, officially called Mozart 100 by UTMB®. I'd chosen this...

Green-Wood Cemetery

"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 Great Irish Greenway

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...