I woke up at some ungodly hour during the week and ideas of a bucket list popped into my head. Most of these I've wanted to do for a while and hopefully I'll get to do at least some of them. Oh and if you are like my friend Heidi and think I'm about to... Continue Reading →
Enchanting Eindhoven
This is such and overdue blog post. It's almost a year since we went to Eindhoven in the Netherlands. Ryanair had cheap flights so we decided to go somewhere different and somewhere that we hadn't really thought about before - so Eindhoven was the place. We had no preconceived ideas about the place, although I... Continue Reading →
A Spiritual Journey!
Today I took the train from Sligo to Boyle. I'm researching my new project which will involve different forms of transport. More about that in the coming weeks. There were a group of nuns on the train, I didn't think anything of it until they started reciting the rosary! I mean I know they are... Continue Reading →
Back to the 1940s
Over the weekend I went to Manchester with Jono. I will do a proper blog about that later but when I was looking at the Manchester Facebook page someone had suggested that visitors might like to check out the 1940s weekend at the East Lancashire Railway. I'm a real train fan and when I found... Continue Reading →
Magnum in Wolverhampton
I had a very short visit to the UK over the weekend to see Magnum playing at the Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton. For those of you who don't know I'm called Magnumlady after a rock band...and I'm still a groupie after 30 odd years of being a fan! The photo above was taken somewhere over Birmingham... Continue Reading →
The Deserted Village, Achill
Following on from my first Achill post I stopped at The Deserted Village. There are around 100 cottages at the base of Slievemore mountain along a mile long stretch. Now it was called the deserted village but I wasn't alone. I had an audience of sheep! So there I was minding my own business and... Continue Reading →