Archive for the ‘Food and travel’ Category
Sunday, March 15th, 2009
After an exhausting 4 hour shop with my niece Katharine in the Kildare Outlet Centre I collapsed exhausted (and I have shopped for Ireland in my time) into L'Officina - with just about enough energy to croak 'Green Tea please'. My appetite for green tea being the stuff of legends, ...
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Sunday, January 11th, 2009
Now to those of you within easy reach of Howth or up in Donegal this will mean nothing but the best news I had this year so far is that I can by proper fresh fish from a new shop just opened in Tullamore. Up til now I had to ...
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
I confess I just returned from a shopping spree in the UK. Wouldn’t go there just to shop but once over there the temptation to save tends to overpower patriotism. The spree included a vehicle from Van Monster – at about half the Irish price these guys are doing great ...
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Friday, January 2nd, 2009
I loved working on the Holiday World Show website. I trundled around with mountains of brochures in my car boot for weeks, hunting perfect photos for the banner changes. Like Bréifne these change randomly as a much more effective substitute for Flash. The curiosity factor appears to dramatically ...
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Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
Moved to Days Inn Dublin this week - just worked out if I avoided three long car commutes I saved the planet and found the extra hours I needed to keep up. Plus taking the train gave me an extra hour on 3g which is not half bad on the ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Next time you sit in an inevitable traffic queue through Abbeyleix on your way south, cast your eyes to the right and you will see something has changed in the local library. It has a big glass window. Take time to pull over and explore further. This is a library ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
The second of the holiday blogs. Now flown to Antalya via Turkish Airlines who are like Aer Lingus a decade ago ... homely flight attendants and unlimited small bottles of noxious wine, a free newspaper and squeaky leather seats. Another interesting booking process. If I don't do something on holiday ...
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
The road to hell is paved with good intentions but what geek blogs on holiday? Last week was spent in Istanbul enjoying the wedding of Karin (SitesToGo Holland) and Hakan - our favourite Joomla developer. The next will be walking stretches of the Lycian way. So how to make an interesting internet point ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Leaving Castlebar after a 3 hour speaking engagement at 11pm, and with a BNI meeting the following day in Tullamore at 7am, meant very little time for sleep. Even though home is just 40 minutes further down the road I decided to try an overnight in Days Hotel Tullamore ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Easter weekend was a great excuse for indulgence,, a couple of days walking the beach and over indulging in Clonakilty Quality Hotel started with a real boob. Searched for great rates on Last Minute.com put in 'quality hotel clonakilty' up came one decent offer - booked it to find ...
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