The last Guinness is drained, the last brandy and dry is sipped. We used our final Sunday afternoon to visit one of Dublin’s few remaining pubs with original Victorian decor, The Long Hall in South Great George’s St, which had…
Andrea Bocelli
Andrea Bocelli has just completed a 4-city tour of the UK and Ireland: Sheffield, Glasgow, London and Dublin. We were very fortunate to be given tickets to the show at the 9,500-seat 3Arena plus free entry to the attached 1878…
Bray to Greystones
These two towns are on the coast south of Dublin and there is a popular walking track along the cliffs between them which we walked on Saturday. To get to Bray is relatively simple – we walked from our apartment…
Porto at Night
We were very pleased to be able to host Ros from NZ for a few days. At the planning stage she suggested that she would like to get to Porto while in Europe and we were only too pleased to…
Hibernation nearly over
I see it is two months since the last blog entry. We have not ventured far because of the cold wet weather and have remained for the most part hunkered down in Dublin. It hasn’t been a bad winter as…
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…
Sit up straight in Singapore (Pip)
We decided to fly Singapore Air this time. We have stayed in the Singapore Transit Hotel before and found it a good experience so we are going this way again. At our ages, we think those long-haul flights are best…
Event confirmed
Veterans Affairs rang yesterday to confirm that I have two tickets for the ceremony (see post below). It will be quite a formal affair and the details can be seen here. It will be one of the highlights of the…
A Special Event
Quite by chance, I discovered that the Royal Air Force is unveiling a memorial to all those who served in Bomber Command during World War 2. This will take place in Green Park, London, on 28 June. My uncle, Donald…