Life on the Emerald Isle.

Last Friday Heather surprised me with a weekend trip to the island of Mallorca on the Mediterranean sea. We left Dublin Friday evening and were able enjoy the sun until Sunday night… that’s when we came back to Dublin, which welcomed us with the classic Irish weather — cold rain and wind 
Mallorca is […]

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We’ve been planning to take the ferry over to Wales since we moved to Dun Laoghaire and saw that the ferry terminal is across the street, but because of the weather we hadn’t made it there yet. Well, the weather was finally nice so we took the chance and went to Wales this past weekend. […]

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It’s time to post some updates. Well… the month of May was pretty busy for us — we started off by going to Poland for Radek’s cousin’s wedding the first weekend of May. We stayed there for few days after the wedding and pretty much right after getting back to Ireland we headed out to the […]

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Our new ”favorite” song (go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x25F3-sR2Yo)…. it’s beautiful and her voice is graceful, but the words are something else! ;-D

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Last night, one of my (Heather) favorite authors, Jodi Picoult, was in Dun Laoghaire promoting her new novel, Change of Heart. About two months ago, I was leaving our local library when I saw the advertisement for her reading and immediately ran back in to the library to get a ticket - I was even the first […]

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We managed to find our way to the Hill of Tara last weekend. Unfortunately, we didn’t realize that it doesn’t open until May, but lo and behold, there was an open gate! We wandered our way over and around the mounds built 5000 years ago “priest-rulers” and then kings in small communities before Ireland was formed […]

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So last night was a beautiful evening and we decided to take a walk. We were going down a main road, not too busy then, but it can be. And we heard roosters calling. We thought it was odd since we’re not in the middle of the countryside, we’re right in Dun Laoghaire. As we […]

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Our friends, Gena and Patrick, came to stay with us for about a week. They got extremely lucky with the weather (until the last day) and saw a LOT of things while they were here.
While they were here, we rented a car and took a roadtrip to Northern Ireland so we could see the Giant’s Causeway. We […]

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This past weekend we spent a sun-filled weekend in Lisbon. Our flight was at the crack of dawn so we had a pretty early morning which is what we’re blaming for our difficulty in climbing all the hills and steps in that city…. not that we’re out-of-shape or anything, no sir-ree. :) 
Our first impression of […]

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Living in Dublin required that we attend the St. Patrick’s Day celebrations — we heard it was a governmental law that new residents must participate in that event :-)   St. Patrick’s Day happened to be on a Monday and the celebrations lasted the whole weekend. The weather was’t too good (we heard that was also […]

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