Can you have too much Vienna? I doubt it somehow, although you can certainly push your luck with its patisserie. Today we went to the Kunsthistoriches Museum, which was amazing. In addition to the priceless […]
We started the day with cakes from the hotel, then moved on to a proper buffet breakfast. Suitably fuelled, we went to the Wiener Eistraum, which is German for “sausage pain”. We skated there for […]
We got the tram to the train station from close to our hotel in Bratislava. The city’s main train station looks like it has been frozen in time to a great extent – the general […]
Today it was time to take in some more of the culture of Bratislava. First up was the castle. This was a properly odd state of affairs – in England it would probably be a […]
An early start on Friday morning, flying out from Leeds Bradford to Bratislava. Quite a few budget airlines head to Bratislava rather than Vienna, as they aren’t a huge distance apart and Slovakia is generally […]
This was my second year of attending the weekend, and I had learnt a couple of important lessons from the initial visit. Firstly, if a workshop looks like it won’t be useful / engaging enough […]
Before making our way up to Doolin for the weekend, we had a couple of nights in our house on the bog. It was great to see it again, especially since we’d left it all […]
Glendalough is the site of an early medieval monastic settlement. Some of it is in excellent condition, and the setting itself is spectacular. There’s a really good walk around the lakes – we went on the […]
We originally planned to do a bit more with the day but it was sunny, so we focussed on visiting cafes and relaxing on the beach. Time well-spent.
We caught the heatwave in Ireland in the middle of June. There follows a series of posts covering what we saw and did during the week. Posts appear as if I’d written them at the […]
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