Monthly Archives: May 2010

the point village market

Frank Turner at the Academy, Germany winning the European Song Contest and Point Village Market impressions

Well, this is an odd post. I actually haven’t planned to post anything this weekend since I expected nothing huge to be happening. Well. Saturday, the 29th of May, night I happily spent a few quid to once again have an appointment at Dublin’s Academy … Read More

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Universitas Dubliniensis: Trinity College Spring Commencements and Graduation

On Thursday 22 April 2010 at 4pm I finally graduated officially from Ireland’s oldest university aka Trinity College. Although my course finished already last year my course pretty much jointly opted for a graduation date this spring. This would allow most of the group who … Read More

kylemore karting, dublin

Kylemore Karting

Many things were on on Sunday 16 May: Africa Festival at Iveagh Gardens. Donegal Festival at Temple Bar. However, Anto, Brendan, Dave, Sandra, Steven and I took the Luas out to Kylemore for some excellent karting action. From the Luas stop to Kylemore Karting it … Read More

dublin, terenure

2010 Eastertrip – Part 2: Donegal, John Butler Trio concert at The Olympia in Dublin, Belfast, Lough Neagh and County Wicklow

The second part of day 5 we headed up into Donegal to the very north of the Irish island passing by secluded beaches, eventually arriving at Malin Head – Ireland’s northern most very windy and very rough spot. After this I steered the car back … Read More

northern ireland: derry, the diamond

2010 Eastertrip – Part 1: Nothern Ireland, Belfast, Giant’s Causeway and Derry

Day 1 This is the first of two posts covering Bettina’s and my adventures when circling around Ireland this past Easter. The reader will see that this trip unlike many others had been subject to fairly inconsistent itinerary. But about this later. After a long … Read More

ringsend swans

Catching the sun: Early Dublin Spring Impressions

Right! This busy holiday weekend prevented me from finishing one colossal Easter trip post. So I decided to put down at least a few common things that occurred during April. The preceding month has actually been fairly nice. Spring was in the air. And the … Read More