Somerset
Lorena
Have you read Burnett’s Secret Garden? Or Tana French’s The Likeness? Then you might have an idea of what you expect, what you see in your head, when your friend…
UK Summer 2024
The train from Dublin to Wexford
This almost broke me, y’all. The morning did not start out great. Breakfast was fine, but after breakfast when I went back up to the room to finish packing and…
Three parks in Dublin
There are more than three parks in the city, of course, but I got to three of them. Funny story – I mean to go to three of them; one…
Walking around Dublin
I mean, I also taxied around Dublin, because I was staying in a residential neighborhood near the zoo and botanical garden, and not downtown in the city center. For Gainesville…
Catching up, checking in
Let’s see… so far, I have talked about…. Flying over here The National Botanic Garden The Glasnevin Cemetery The Dublin Zoo Dublin Castle and the chapel there Christ Church Cathedral…
Christ Church Cathedral
I wasn’t going to go into Christ Church Cathedral… I was just going to walk by, on my way to St. Patrick’s Cathedral. But it was raining, and I was…
Dublin Castle
Saturday morning I woke up and although when planning, I’d earmarked this day for Trinity College and the Book of Kells, for some reason I just didn’t feel like it.…
The Dublin Zoo
I felt like I’d done so much already, yet this was only my second day in Ireland. I guess that’s what I get for landing at 9 in the morning,…
The Glasnevin Cemetery
The Glasnevin Cemetery is big, but relatively new compared to many other things in Dublin. It opened in the 1830s, and it’s still a working cemetery – so people are…
The National Botanic Garden in Dublin
Technically, my first stop after the airport was my B&B, even though it was only about 9 in the morning and check-in wasn’t until 2 or 3. I knew this…
Who wants to look at my vacation photos?
I know. There’s nothing more boring, right? Well… some of my friends might find some of them interesting. And I have been posting a few, a handful at a time,…
Feel the fear but do it anyway
I’ve always been low-key afraid of flying. I love the view, I just saw a few airplane crash movies way too young and have always been kind of fearful of…