Archive for the ‘Travel’ Category

Posted on November 6, 2008 - by John

Back to the grind

Been crazy busy since I came back from holidays but the photos are up on flickr so check them out.

Posted on January 13, 2008 - by John

Happenings on Irish Rail – Iarnród Éireann

Sorry for the lack of updates, but you can get tired with blogging at times. I am writing this on the train to Dublin, internet – curtsy of O2 Broadband, its holding up – maybe better than me. Irish Rail have been blowing some smoke lately about their new trains, while this one is very clean and new, it seems there has been no effort to work on the actual rail lines, as its bumpier than a teenagers face. That said, I usually drive, or take the bus if I have to, the train is so expensive, its not really worth it.

You have the usual passengers on this train, most notably is the Britney (yes I’ve named her) the girl who whats you to know how great she is, even though we are about 6 seats away the whole carriage knows she is a student, works weekends, has an order with amazon for college books, which she decided to have posted to her aunts house in Meath – even though she lives in Dublin – ‘ she was just was not thinking that day’ – apparently, she was also at a court case recently, not sure why, but apparently the judge warned her not to discuss this in public, when she meets a guy on a night out she does not give him her number but rather her brothers phone number, because when she tries to make up a fake phone number, she always ends up giving out the real number… She must be talking to a ghost however, I cant hear what the other person is saying, I can only assume her friend is speaking in a normal tone.

I’ve just been interrupted to ask if I want coffee- this is new, and not happened on any of my previous Limerick- Dublin trips – a nice touch – I assume its not included in the 45 euro ticket price.

One other thing, there is a woman singing a song, like to one you hear old people singing in those older type pubs where they play ‘45′ and drink sherry. She has stopped now, perhaps to sip her ‘coffee’. I spoke too soon, she is now singing again, but not alone this time – a gentleman has joined her to sing you ‘you will never defeat the IRA’ and ‘Billy don’t be a hero – come back to me’. I can only assume she is intoxicated, and hope she will soon drift off. One plus though it has stopped Britney from yapping her hole off.

We are now at Thurlas,and I love that the automated voice guy said it in Irish first.

Posted on December 8, 2007 - by John

Malaysia Photos

The Photos from my Trip to Malaysia are now online. You can view them on my site here and on my Flickr account here

Posted on October 14, 2007 - by John

Off to Malaysia

Im off on my holidays on what is to be my first trip to Asia – Malaysia to be exact. Photos and more when I get back…wish me luck…i’m going alone – but I am meeting some Malay friends at some stage

Posted on March 2, 2007 - by John

RTE website – Hit or Miss?

The Irish Indo is reporting today that the new RTE website is a massive hit. And I have to admit, that yes, I do like it, I now find myself checking it daily for News and Business News, as well as the new TV Guide, and of course the Entertainment section (goes without saying). Impressively their list of online videos, including RTE News broadcasts, is becoming more extensive. I reported (well had a screen shot) of the site shortly after its launch here. Some people mailed me to say that they still don’t like it, but if the below figures are anything to go by, RTE are going something right.

THE redesign of RTE’s website has contributed to a massive 78pc increase in traffic, the station claimed yesterday. vFigures show 29 million page impressions registered for the month of February. This represents a lOpc rise on the previous month, and a 78pc increase year-onyear. Over 1.2 million “unique users’ are now accessing the site.

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Posted on February 28, 2006 - by John

My Photos of NYC

Much higher quality photos, and a nice few of them are all posted in the photo album here

Posted on February 19, 2006 - by John

New York New York So Good…

Rachel woke me this Morning about 1 pm, I was in bed of course, well it is Sunday. Then the sudden reality of the fact that in a few hours I would be on my way to New York! Time to get ready? nah! Ill leave that until a hour before I leave… maybe not. Of course Rachel has been up early, as she is a News Reader on a local Station, how mad is that, i’d better not say which one though. She’d probably kill me.

Anyway, theres lot’s to do in New York (Who knew?) But what im most looking forward to is the Statue (her self in the picture) of Liberty. And of course the Empire State Buliding. Should all be pretty mad. New York at night is supposed to be crazy! My kinda crazy too i’m told!

The Layout of the City has me confused a bit, but apparently it’s easy enough to follow! How much to tip 15-20% I hear for eating out… I suppose this really is a spur of the moment trip, but we did book it over a month or so ago. But it will be mad crack im sure. I hope to have lots of photos for my photo gallery. See you friday!