Aren’t kids great?

Aren’t kids great? I’m staying in a motel in Enniskillen tonight. I’ve never stayed in an Irish motel before but it’s not too bad for stg£50. From my hotel motel window, I can see the kids from the local estate building their bonfire for the 12th. It’s only about 1.5 metres [...]

Rules to live by

Found mylifeandtime’s blog while roaming this evening. She has the following (unattributed) motto/phrase on her blog. I don’t know if she wrote it herself but I couldn’t agree more. Looks like she’s moving her site to a photoblog, myirisheye.
You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by [...]

Home

Home after 1064.4 miles. The temperature in Dublin is about 9 degrees less than when I left. This is not good.

I sent a postcard from Lizard Point (Britian’s most Southerly point) to a colleague in which I wrote, ‘I wish I had kept going’. Now I really wish I had.

Better late than never (Thurs, 22 June)

Visited the Eden Project today. Words can’t describe it so just look at the pictures.
Visited Plymouth in the afternoon for a very brief stop, including the National Maritime Aquarium. Might revisit tomorrow if there’s time.

I wrote this on Thursday, 22 June 2006, but I couldn’t post it until today.

Better late than never (Wed, 21 June)

Today was Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year. Or rather, that day of the year which has the longest amount of daylight. And, boy, did I make the most of it. I left my hotel early to go for a walk on the local (imaginatively titled) ‘coastal walk’. The [...]

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