The music that you may hear as you view this page is the actual busker who played this very evocative Spanish piece as we wandered through the park. To turn it off, scroll to the bottom and hit Pause. Music currently…
Sagrada Familia, Barcelona
The Sagrada Familia (Basilica of the Holy Family) is a magnificent modern gothic-style church which was high on our list of sights to see during our recent week in Barcelona. To say we were overwhelmed is an understatement. Begun in 1882, its…
Return to Kerry
Pip’s US family, Janet and Bob, Jerry and Mary, visited us at the end of August for about a week. After a couple of days in Dublin we hired a minibus and went to Kerry to impress them with Ireland’s…
Culture Night 2015
I sometimes think that everyone in Ireland is a performer – singing, playing an instrument, dancing, telling stories… Culture Night is an outworking of this in a once-a-year event across the whole country (in fact, the whole island, including the…
Howth Summit Walk
A summer morning in Howth near Dublin At the north end of Dublin Bay is a small peninsula on which sits the pretty fishing village of Howth, about which we have blogged before. What we haven’t yet done is walked…
More visitors to Dublin
A hectic but exciting three weeks as first, cousin Christine visited us as a side trip from her UK destination, then the following week we moved to our new apartment and the week after that Ruth and John (Richard’s parents)…
Family Visit
Nothing too touristy this time. Just a record of a few photos taken when Andie and Pete came to stay. They packed a lot in to their time here, travelling to the west coast for a few days, bookended by…
Adventures with Angus
Bruce and Angus spent part of the school holidays going on a few adventures around East Sussex. First, we went to the Bluebell Railway which runs from East Grinstead to Sheffield Park using a vintage steam train and similar-era carriages.…
For all the saints…
St Michael’s Mount is a small island very close to the coast which you can walk to at low tide. At the top is a castle and chapel, the oldest part of which dates to the twelfth century. It is…
Exploring The Lizard
The Lizard is a peninsula in the south of Cornwall – in fact, it is the southernmost part of the British Isles (and who of you duffers thought that was Land’s End)? A strange name, but nothing to do with…