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Things I noticed in Dublin

February 4, 2009 · 1 Comment

  • Stickers on trash cans that say “No bomb please”.
  • Guinness is much more palatable there.
  • A lunch stand selling delicious Mauritian curries.
  • Everyone has gorgeous complexion because they never see the sun.
  • The pubs play a lot of U2.
  • The pubs do not play a lot of Boomtown Rats.
  • There are at least 45 kinds of Irish Whiskey not called Jameson’s.
  • A lot of Polish supermarkets.
  • Irish kids are very fashionable thanks to H&M and TopShop.
  • Oscar Wilde’s house (A Georgian terrace — tasteful, of course).
  • A religious museum that has papyrus fragments from the oldest known gospels – older than the Dead Sea Scrolls.
  • The weather is too crap to take photographs.
  • Leprechauns.
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    Cruising then and now

    January 27, 2009 · 3 Comments


    The Queen Mary was built in the 1930s, so it’s fascinating to compare it with a Princess ship built this decade. Sometimes it’s hard to tell which is which…

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