We announce, with both pride and sadness, that the Bakker Bugle B&B is fully booked through the end of its presence in Ireland. We will begin taking bookings for our new location in mid-summer 2009.
Here are two photos of the new location:
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27 April 2009
21 April 2009
Caption Seven
Hello, friends! After a bit of a delay, the Bugle staff prepared another photo for your captioning virtuosity. Remember that your entries for one of Captions Six, Seven and Eight will be worth double-points.
The staff will award points for Caption Six in the next twenty-four hours, so contribute your best work to that post right now! Will says that the submissions so far are outstanding. Go Bugle Readers!
(We’ll also award a prize in the Guess the Number Taken!™ contest today. If you haven’t guessed yet, take a stab at it!)
12 April 2009
Photos from January
So, we’re running about three months behind. (If you don’t count the unfinished Italy set.) But you better not complain! We used our four day Easter holiday weekend to catch up for you ungrateful gobshites!
The holiday in January was a full three days — County Donegal is a large and picturesque region, and we saw the city of Derry, too. (more…)
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Talking on the street in Dublin
The Irish government presented its emergency budget for 2009 on Wednesday, and I’d picked up a newspaper to learn about it, after finishing some frivolous shopping. I was sitting outside a cafe, with coffee, reading that the changes would be hard on lower income residents of Ireland.
A women approached me to beg for spare change. I’d seen her around the area quite a bit. She didn’t recognise me, but that was no surprise. (more…)
10 April 2009
Egg-cellent
No matter where you fall in the religious spectrum, you can get behind the Rabbit of Easter. He bring of the chocolate — and that, quite frankly, is a bunny miracle that none of us want to examine too closely. 
We are in Ireland for our second Easter, so some of the subtleties of the season have become more apparent. (more…)
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6 April 2009
To a new country, to find new adventures
The staff had some fun on the first of this month, but our move to Luxembourg is no April Fool.
My work will take us from Dublin to Luxembourg City later this year. We will take the Bakker Bugle with us, and our beloved readers, of course. We’re excited about the move and, in the next month or two, we’ll find out more about where and when we’ll take up residence.
Will and I will be learning a new city and new languages. You’ll read about our adventures at our new home and all over Europe. Plus, the BBB&B will be open and accepting reservations as soon as possible.
This change is no fault of Ireland, of course. We have a long list of things we love about this island and its inhabitants, and an even longer list of things we’d like to do before we go. It is simply time to take new opportunities elsewhere. Thank you, Ireland, for your hospitality, for your good graces, and for letting us be part of this exciting place.
And thank you, dear friends, for being our patient audience for the past two years. Your support means the world to us. We are so glad that we can take you with us!
1 April 2009
Breaking News: Ireland and Italy tie
Italy played Ireland tonight, in Southern Italy, for the World Cup qualifying round. Italy had won every match in the round so far.
Robbie Keane scored in the 85th minute to tie the match, an incredible result against the reigning world champions.
This is not an April Fool!
Bugle to move corporate HQ
DUBLIN, 1 April 2009 — The Bakker Bugle, an Irish B&B and internet services company, said today that it would relocate its corporate headquarters to Luxembourg.
Although the announcement took many by surprise, Bugle officials said that the move was part of a plan announced in mid-2007 to grow the Bugle brand throughout Europe. Also part of that plan is the today’s acquisition of The Bakker Bugle by the Luxembourgish edutainment giant, Bastelengebläers SARL. (more…)