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that was the week that was…
…a bit of an oddity, all things considered. Starting with a cancelled train at York on Monday morning (and a just-caught flight as a result) and culminating in a very welcome (if a little unexpected) return to the leafy highways and byways of my old stomping ground of Pimlico, it’s been, er, interesting. I’m absolutely knackered, that much I do…
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the last of the irish roving …for now
So it wasn’t the fourth of July, nor was it eighteen hundred and six and the Blue Bus (or Aircoach, as they call it on the website) drove off rather than set sail, but I left the sweet cove of Cork last Saturday morning at roughly nine am bound for Dublin Airport and home, after four nights in my deeply…
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a quick wave from over (irish) seas…
And while I have a minute, a brief update from Derry! I caught my first glimpse of the place from my first Ryanair flight in ten years or so yesterday afternoon – having observed the airline’s many rules and checked in online to print my own boarding pass (fine for not doing so £60) I was gratified in the extreme…