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What’s worse than your child having a head injury? How about having your child have a head injury in a small town in a foreign country on a Saturday afternoon? Is there a hospital nearby? Not in this town. Next town over? The next? Are they open? Where is it even? Ciárán got hurt. He…
I haven’t had as much time and opportunity to blog about the trip as I had initially planned. I thought I would have more time, but that’s not the case. Almost every day we’re out of the house by 10 in the morning and by the time we return and get dinner and the kids…
When I was here three years ago I had no idea this was even here. It’s not even fully outside of Ballycastle! While I was away to Belgium one of the things Laura and the kids did was check this place out. It was disappointing as it was closed off, but I had yet to see…
Let’s try this again, shall we? The day after I got back from Belgium, which will be it’s own blog post (I want to try to get a bit more “current”), it was decided we should try to head out to Carrick-A-Rede and try getting across the rope bridge. Again. the weather was nicer and…
Okay, that was enough about the logistics, what about the music? Rock Werchter had plenty of music. Unfortunately a few of the bands we really wanted to see were on the first day. Still, most of the acts we were actually travelling to see were yet to play. We arrived on the first day and…
Rock Werchter was the reason. 10 Bands In 10 Countries. This was to be our fourth such entry. After Canada, Japan and America, this was also the first one where we intended and set out to go as a destination to fulfill this project. Leuven is a nice little town in Belgium. It was littered…
From one extreme to another. The hotel we stayed at in Dublin was a step up from a hostel. Barely. This wouldn’t necessarily have been a bad thing, but it was so run down it wasn’t pleasant. The shared toilet with the other three rooms on the floor wasn’t even an issue. There was a…
Now, if you’ve been reading the last few blog posts, you may be wondering what my friend Stephen is doing on what is supposed to be a family vacation. Back in … A while ago Stephen managed to convince Laura it was a good idea for me to go to Japan. Then we went to…
One of the impetuses for my family’s vacation to Ireland was Rock Werther, the concert festival in Belgium. This will bet detailed a bit in a later post, but Stephen and I had to get to Dublin to catch a flight. On the way, we stopped at Belfast. And again, as with my last time…
The day after checking out Dunluce Castle Stephen and I walked the Causeway Coast. There are a number of great looking hikes in Ireland, and this is meant to be one of the most spectacular. After taking in a portion of it, I have to agree. There is a writer, Britt Reints, who among other…