Today my awesomer half and I were waiting for the bus in front of Hoggis & Figgis on Dawson Street. A late 50s-and-gray-on-top American tourist was walking past the bookshop with his wife....
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Today we visited the Grant Museum of Zoology at University College London. This museum is used for comparative Zoology classes in the mornings and is open to the public in the afternoons. We re...
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We are enjoying our weekend holiday in London. Today we visited the British Museum. They had two special exhibits on. First we saw Columbian Gold, which was very good. The Columbian's level of te...
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My better half and I are visiting London for the bank holiday weekend. If you didn't know, Monday is a national holiday in the Republic of Ireland: St. Patrick's Day. We were able to get so...
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My better half and I went to lunch at The Port House. This is a Spanish tapas restaurant on South William Street in Dulblin. It was a chilly day, 4°C (39.2°F) and miserably rainy. It was ...
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My Awesomer Half and I were in La Petit Parisian for lunch. They had some great music playing. Django Reinhardt's version of 'Brazil' came on just as we sat down. It was perfect. Inspired...
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Christmas comes early at Brown Thomas, a posh Grafton Street store in Dublin. I was in the store on August 31st and they already they had Christmas trees and decorations out. Consumers aren'...
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We are enjoying beautiful weather this bank holiday weekend. My awesomer half and I took a walk around lovely Connemara today and soaked up the sunshine. currach floating in the bay ...
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I can't believe I'm blogging about a Starbucks. Say what you will about cookie-cutter corporate stores and alleged employee abuse (prompting such sites as www.ihatestarbucks.com), at least they...
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We went to California today. Well not really, but it felt like it. The sun came out and we had lunch at a Pho restaurant. My awesomer half took us to lunch at Pho Viet on Parnell Street in ...
I am a disgrace. Well, according to one of Dublin's inner city junkies I am. Let me explain... I was waiting here at around 9:00 PM one evening... in front of Connolly Station ...
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It's a rainy Easter Sunday in Connemara. I walked out in the rain to take some pictures and nearly blew away in the wind. For the most part we stuck around the house and watched River Cottage...
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Apparently you can't buy beer on Good Friday. Some kind of law in Ireland bans alcohol sales today. Lots of people think it's a needless ban. I mean, come on... you can still buy a pack ...
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Festive fish from the Galway farmers' market Happy St. Patrick's Day! We are in Connemara this weekend. My awesomer half and I have a book called Sacred Ireland that is full of megali...
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Cue "Also Sprach Zarathustra" by Richard Strauss. Picture an African savannah. A group of primates (homo habilis) wakes up to the sunrise. Suddenly, they notice before them, standing tall a...
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My other half and I went to a confusing event yesterday. It was packed full of people and not much was going on. The official title of the event was: The Dublin Tall Ships Races Festival pr...
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There is some kind of boat event going on in Dublin. All I know is that for the last four days my normally one hour bus ride into work now takes two hours and traffic in Dublin is absolutely s...
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We were walking down Grafton Street in Dublin last night and we turned onto Wicklow Street. Lo and behold, what did we find across the street from Tower Records? Ok, I have to be carefu...
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Look no further. This is the In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida of awesome, at 44 Upper Abbeygate Street in Galway. KemBali rocked my world... they had messenger bags, DJ t-shirts, paisley bandanas, and jew...
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We had breakfast at The Coffee House in Bearna village on Saturday. Bearna is a Gaeltacht town about 5 miles west of Galway. The name "Bearna" is the Irish word for a gap in a stone wall, jus...
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My Awesomer Half and I are in Galway for the bank holiday weekend. It was a busy day in town because of the Galway Races, a popular horse racing event. We took a walk down Shop Street this a...
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We like Mexican food but we don't have a lot of choices in Dublin, so we make fajitas from a kit. This is one of our regular meals and it's pretty easy to do. We start with fresh ingredients ...
This is what happens when you don't mow your back lawn in Ireland for 6 weeks; your dinner grows there. My Awesomer Half and I picked fresh nettles growing in--yes, our back yard--and made din...
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Hello there Neighbor, can you say, "Baba Ghanoush?" Sure, I knew that you could. Heh heh, I don't think Dr. Fred Rogers ever said that on his popular childrens' TV show, but I bet he would ha...
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My awesomer half cooked us an amazing meal this evening: Chicken Kebabs With Avocado Dip. We are big fans of Jamie Oliver and this recipe comes from his book Jamie Does... Spain Italy Swede...
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