Over the last couple of weeks the weather here in Carlow has been uncharacteristically warm. However that all changed in the last couple of days. It's been raining and drizzling for the last couple of days, which is rather annoying, as it's a long weekend. I'm heading off to Los Angeles towards the end of the week so I thought I'd check the weather over there. The … [Read more...] about Carlow vs Los Angeles Weather
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Carlow’s Dolmen
I grew up on the west coast of Ireland only a few miles from the Burren region. It's a beautiful part of the world and has a lot of history. Nowadays I live in Carlow, which is in the southeast of Ireland. It too has history, but even though I've been living here for 10 years there are still parts of the area that I'm not familiar with. One of the things that Carlow is … [Read more...] about Carlow’s Dolmen
Evening Echo Boy Statue
If you wander around Cork city you'll probably walk past this statue at some point. "The Echo Boy" serves as a memory as the number of "boys" selling the local evening paper - The Evening Echo - has now dwindled to practically zero. The "boys" are now grown men if they exist at all … [Read more...] about Evening Echo Boy Statue
A Bit of Schoolboy Nostalgia
If you went to school in Ireland you probably had one of these "maths set" cases at some point. I'd forgotten about them until I spotted this one for sale in a supermarket in Midleton. Of course if it isn't scratched and punched full of holes it probably isn't the "genuine article" :) I'm not sure when I had the last one of these, but it was probably back in 1990 or … [Read more...] about A Bit of Schoolboy Nostalgia
French Beer, Herbal Tea & Cured Meat
James comes over to Carlow a couple of times a year and he usually brings me over a few products that I simply cannot get in Ireland. Vanilla tea - while there are a couple of varieties available in Irish shops they're simply not as good as the Twining's one Adelscott beer - I've been drinking this beer on and off since some time in the early 90s. Even in France it's not … [Read more...] about French Beer, Herbal Tea & Cured Meat