ireland

.ie: Saving Rented Marea

Kilkenny in the dark is not fun to navigate round, especially with two really dodgy looking maps! We were rescued by Katherine, Sabrina’s friend in Kilkenny who was putting up with us our contact, guide, assistant, fixer, and general sorter-out of stuff. She took us to meet her partner Joe, who was hosting the Thanksgiving […]

.ie: Santa or Rush Hour, Hmmm

Sabrina took Ellie up this random tower/chimney thing beside the hotel, which equally randomly had a Santa at the top. This meant the rest of us could sit back with some drinkies without a small girl running around us and asking for beer 🙂 Before heading off, we nipped into a next-door Spar, grabbed some […]

.ie: Airport Coffee is Expensive

It was time to go pick up Clare and her daughter Ellie from the airport. Somehow, I had the route there and back totally nailed, and Sabrina and I sat about in one of the airport bars drinking coffee and talking about random things appearing on Sky News. Clare is not a good flyer apparently, […]

.ie: It Begins ...

The meandering to Kilkenny had begun towards Prestwick Airport. A fraught drive down the A77 gave me about half an hour to spare to do those niggly little things like park the car, check in and board the plane – for my last travel through Prestwick, I arrived about two minutes after the gate closed, […]

off to belfast next week

off to belfast next week for a random Exchange Server installation … should be fun! The work is supposed to be giving me a 300 quid cash advance on my expenses, but they couldn’t give me the money through a BACS transfer cos our finance system is shite, and the promised cheque in-lieu-of still hasn’t […]

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