A Visit to Auschwitz
What we instantly picture when we hear the word Auschwitz is black and white images of emancipated prisoners starving in the cold, being murdered, and piled in mass graves. Not quite the same experience to visit the historic site today. I consider myself pretty knowledgeable…
Costa de la Luz: Home We Go
The flight not leaving home wasn’t until late in the day, so we spent most of the day at the hotel. The person who checked us entering the cafeteria removed our wristbands so that we couldn’t partake of any free alcohol for the rest of…
Costa de la Luz: Time for a Massage
The lady walked us back pasts the Jacuzzi and sauna into a colder area before separating us. She took me into a small room with a massage table, a few lit candles, and other paraphernalia items that one might expect in a massage room. Through…
Costa de la Luz: Out for an Evening Dinner
Breakfast buffet – pool – sun – lunch – more pool and sun – Dinner For dinner, we decided to forgo the buffet and walk down to a little restaurant we had seen earlier. The buffet was okay in the sense that it was included,…
Costa de la Luz: The Sketch Show
The previous night was a restless one. The bed as solid as a rock, okay, maybe not a rock but still pretty solid which made getting a good nights sleep difficult. That compiled with a headache that took most of the night to go away,…
Costa de la Luz: Day 1
Why do so many trips start with such an early morning flight? In our case that meant getting up at 4:00 in the morning for a 7:40 flight. On the plus side, it was a direct and short flight, on an airline that was not…
Belgrade Day 3 and 4: Film Festivals, Smoke Free Food, and Final Thoughts
I decided to combine day 3 and 4 of my visit to Belgrade, Serbia together for this post. Mostly because each day involved wondering around town and taking pictures of the old buildings and seeing some of the signs. Also, since we were in town…
Belgrade Day 2: Breakfast
After a restless night on a bed of solid rock that smelled of cigarette smoke, we woke to showers with a shower that was a spray nozzle without a wall mount to hang it from. Basically showering involved holding the nozzle to get wet, setting…
Belgrade Day 1: Just Trying to Get There
What the fuck was I thinking with a 5:00 AM flight? A 5 o’clock flight meant that I had to leave my house at 3:00 AM. This was 3:00 AM on a Sunday morning in December from Dublin, Ireland. Which means my taxi phone app…
Europeans Annoying Football Comments
I haven’t blogged in a while about living in Ireland, so here is one on Europeans and football. The conversation will usually start with someone saying that football should be played with the feet. In a statement about soccer and American football. “What you guys…
