Vacations
Checking out for two weeks
It’s been kind of a lazy summer for me on the blog. Mostly because the rest of my life has been so busy. But I do promise to pick things back up…after vacation! That’s right, I’m going to Amsterdam and Bruges for two weeks. I’ve got at least one guest post lined up for while [...]
English and Irish cuisine: My kingdom for a salad
Food in London and Ireland was about what we expected it to be: ample servings of meat and potatoes. While we made it into our fair share of pubs, we did try to balance our diet out with other dining establishments and markets. It’s not that the meals were totally devoid of vegetables—we’d often get [...]
The mysteries of Newgrange
No, it’s not the fact that the other Megalithic passage tomb monuments on this historic site, Knowth and Dowth, rhyme with south. I took the liberty of rearranging the chronology of vacation events in order to save the best for last. Hey, it’s my blog and I can play around with the space-time continuum if [...]
The Rock of Cashel, Dublin and a tale of two Guinness
So, yes, we survived Limerick and lived to tell the tale. On our way out of stab city and en route to Dublin, we stopped at the Rock of Cashel. The buildings on this site date back to around the 12th and 13th centuries. Included in the price of admission is a guided tour which [...]
The Cliffs of Moher, Burren, and escape from stab city
We’re counting down to one last week of vacation posts before what I’m sure is the much anticipated food wrap-up post and then it’s back to regularly scheduled blogging. On our last day in the west of Ireland, we started off by visiting the Cliffs of Moher which stretches for eight kilometres and rises up [...]
Living history versus the history of living
After spending several days in the quaint town of Williamstown in a great B&B, connecting with locals who actually knew Cokebaby’s family, it was time to move on to another area of Ireland. En route to our next accommodations we stopped in to check out The Craggaunowen Project. Now, there are plenty of living history [...]
Castles of Ireland
If there’s one thing that Ireland has plenty of it’s castles in various states of disrepair. Well, besides pubs that is. Williamstown, where we were staying for a few nights, has a population of 400 and four pubs on main thoroughfare. Based on this scenario I figure there’s a requirement that a pub be open [...]
How to waste an entire day in travel by using multiple modes of transportation
As I mentioned in a previous post, our last vacation was spent travelling with Cokebaby’s brother and sister-in-law in England with the intent of meeting up with Cokebaby’s sister, brother-in-law and their two kids en route to Ireland. Our destination in Ireland was just north of Galway in a quaint little place called Williamstown. According [...]
A free day about London and on the case of the elusive Royal Observatory at Greenwich
London is a great city on a number of levels: it has fabulous cultural attractions, a diverse population with many wonderful fine and casual dining spots, and ample places to see, shop, and be merry if you’re a tourist. Since this was our second visit to the city, Cokebaby and I took a day to [...]
How many World Heritage sites can a person fit into one day?
As it turns out, the answer is two. But on a coach tour of English sites and countryside we threw in one of the Seven Wonders of the UK in the mix just for good measure. So it was that on day two of our vacation that Cokebaby, the in-laws and I set off to [...]
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