Blackpool North Pier.
Brexit
Places & Travel
The butter dish caused me to consider Brexit over my ‘full English’ in Blackpool. Given Lakeland Dairies location in Cavan, it almost definitely contains milk from both sides of the border, so this butter probably travelled more than I did to get to this table. All made easier by the EU. What’s going to happen […]
Food for Thought
Places & Travel
Wonderful World
What a beautiful description of a state of being, languishing in the Mediterranean sun: The Croatian poet Jakša Fiamengo said that fjaka is a specific state of mind and body. “It is like a faint unconsciousness,” he wrote, “a state beyond the self or – if you will – deeply inside the self, a special […]
Places & Travel
BA has resumed flights to Tehran. Now that’s a country I’d love to see. Especially Isfahan. http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/30-beautiful-photos-iran-british-airways-resumes-flights-tehran-1579154
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Charming old tourism poster spotted in the Railway Bar, Clifden:
Photography
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Five years ago I was over in Harrisburg, PA on an extended business trip. The best part was that I got the chance to spend 4th July there, in the company of two friends from work. One of them lived there and her family were over from Ireland, so she gathered us together with her […]