the last day of our irish pilgrimage! after another good breakfast at the newgrange hotel we pack once more and enter our pilgrims bus — which this morning has grown in size: morris, our excellent driver, swapped our smaller bus … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: July 2009
a walk through pittoresque boyne valley, time travel, monasterboice, & the hill of slane
mrs d and i slept surprisingly well this night, given the fact that one of the main thorough-fares passes the hotel just a couple of meters away.1 breakfast is efficient and good and the waitresses are actually quite friendly and … Continue reading
the burren, limestone pavement, clonmacnoise, & an almost secret birthday
after a rather good night and an equally good and relaxed breakfast1 at hotel doolin we pack once more and embark on the long trip across ireland, going from the atlantic west coast all the way to navan. the weather … Continue reading
listowel, shannon river ferry, lahinch, sunday lunch, cliffs of moher, live music at doolin
it’s sunday. our last night at the ballygarry house hotel was quiet for a change, which is nice. also, as long as our group is having breakfast, we are spared the rather annoying radio blast.1 after breakfast mrs d and … Continue reading
brendan’s chapel, an daingean, gallarus oratory, an inch of beach
our final full day at tralee and the ballygarry house hotel. tonight we are spared the noisy party guests, unfortunately other co-pilgrims are not so lucky, they suffer from a rather rowdy crowd leaving this night’s wedding party at about … Continue reading
gap of dunloe & the lakes of killarney
breakfast today (we are still at the ballygarry house hotel) works out a bit better than yesterday: more coffee and tea available, no being told off for sitting at the wrong table. today’s program: by bus to the starting point … Continue reading
brandon’s well, an daingean peninsula
around 2:00 in the morning: a group of hotel guests from that anniversary party very kindly let us in into their conversations they are having in the parking lot outside the hotel entrance — for about half an hour we … Continue reading
a new breakfast beverage, brigid’s well, rock of cashel
no “madame–baby” wake-up call this morning (i guess mr charming realized that madame was already taking a shower when he called) but a bit of re-packing before breakfast as today we are relocating to tralee in county kerry. having learnt … Continue reading
oh, look, rain!…kevin’s way…glendalough
ring, ring — mrs d picks up the phone, it’s the 7:15 wake-up call and, as expected, nobody answers back. time to get up. ring, ring — mrs d picks up the phone yet again, this time round it’s the … Continue reading
on an irish pilgrimage…
the next 10 days we are taking part in a spiritual journey through ireland. really kind of a pilgrimage, a christian pilgrimage to be precise, by bus (not a lot of walking involved, unfortunately) to the places of the old, … Continue reading
more vincent stuff…
looking through drscofield’s twitter messages of the past couple of days i noticed @pixelq’s twitter about “watching the world” and i had to head over to (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV1YbWBSXS8) to watch this 3D internet masterpiece once more. IMHO it’s one of the … Continue reading
felsenputzing, take 2
if you thought my post about felsenputzing was a joke, think again. courtesy of avid tagesanzeiger reader, mrs d, the link for all of you who want to become expert felsenputzer: register here.
