Posts on Travel
.....for whatever we lose (like a you or a me), it's always our self we find in the sea......
e.e. cummings
Relentlessly snowy Berlin
I’m just back from a relentlessly snowy Berlin. 10 times the size of Paris with an ever growing and developing creative community. Iconic monuments, grungy clubs and cafes, graffiti on everything, and always reminders of the Cold War. They may have tried to kill off diversity in the 1930’s but today Berlin is one […]
……and just at that moment……
Special times come and go so fast. The one beautiful evening this summer. That last photo opportunity of the day. The final moments of the slithering sinking sun. After a pet day on Rossbeigh Strand, that elusive sun is tracked until it’s very last golden seconds of light. Lads stop playing football on the […]
….and in no time I began to forget…..
There were 5 kinds of weather in that sky and the mist hanging over the mountains made the beach disappear in an endless haze. Sun filtered through from time to time and the surfing classes, picnics and family gatherings continued, in spite of sprinkles of rain, thickening fog or sand blowing….. We […]
It’s quiet here as usual but it’s Mayday in Havana, Cuba!
Every Mayday I think of the huge celebrations I attended once in Havana. On Mayday morning our hosts, a writer, his beautiful dancer wife and his mother aged 85, went scouring the streets to get eggs for our breakfast. Unfortunately we had to go hungry that day and instead joined the throngs on their […]
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