Pop music

Anita and I listen to Today FM in the morning. It’s a national station, broadcasting somewhere between 100 and 102 MHz all over the country…

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5 Stars *****

I am no Rick Steves, but here’s what he won’t tell you about Dublin, Ireland….
There is a new place called the Bakker B&B, est 2007…

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Ten Things to Do, from a tourist, not Rick Steves

In no particular order:

Embrace the culture. It is easy to do without much effort.
Explore by walking about each day…

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Visitors, Going to the Ring of Kerry

The B.B. B&B hosts Sharon and Jaime, great friends and honoured Commenters of this blog…

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Dublin Marathon

The last weekend in October was a bank holiday weekend (meaning a Monday off). That Monday, the 27th annual Dublin marathon chose to start in our front yard (literally)…

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Settled In

I’ve noticed over the past few weeks that we have settled into our lives here in Dublin…

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Quantitative Context: How big is Ireland?

Let’s talk about population first. The population of the island of Ireland is about 6 million persons. About 4.25 million of them live in the Republic of Ireland (the twenty-six counties)…

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Good game

As I’ve mentioned previously, we’ve been really thrilled to get the NFL on our satellite…

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“You are square. Go back to your hotel.”

Anita and I bought tickets to see Andrew Bird this Saturday night at a venue called Tripod. Tripod is a ten minute walk from our place, in a converted train station…

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