April 9, 2019
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Ten Days from Scotland
How am I ten days away from another international adventure???? I feel like I’ve barely unpacked (metaphorically) from Ireland! I know I haven’t talked a lot about the Scotland leg of my 2024 adventuring. That’s because, I think, it still doesn’t feel real. I spent a lot of time earlier this year thinking I might
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I never write, I never call
Dear Tim; It’s been a while since I wrote, I know, I know. But I had a weird dream about you the night before last. Like, a really weird dream. And my dreams are usually odd! First, though, I’ve been thinking about you and your cooking for like a month now – it’s going to
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Belfast Memorials, Statues, and Street Art
This is going to be such a picture-heavy post! Sorry/not sorry. Let’s start with the Glass of Thrones. Six large stained glass pieces, focusing on different aspects of Game of Thrones and the ten years the show was filmed in the area. Sadly I only saw four of them (ooo, I’ll have to go back!)
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Around Belfast
I went to Belfast because I wanted to go to the Titanic Museum. I didn’t know much about Belfast, before going, other than movies I’d seen about The Troubles. When my friend Trista told me there was a park dedicated to C. S. Lewis, I added that to my list. But I didn’t have anything
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Morning ramblings (AKA “Old Lady Shakes Fist at Sky”)
This started off as a quick Facebook rant but got too long, so I decided to put it here, instead. I should say, it started off as a personal Facebook page rant, in case WordPress cross-posts this to my HaldeCraft page, because for some reason it started doing that even when I’ve edited the Jetpack
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Connemara and Kylemore Abbey Full Day Tour (Kylemore Abbey)
Kylemore Abbey. I partly liked it, and was partly like… “meh.” The parts I liked, I *really* liked. There was one little spot, I’ll make it it’s own little gallery below, where it absolutely felt holy and magical. But most of it….? I guess, when I think “abbey” I think “working nuns” (or “working monks”)
