Tag: Ireland
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RAIN, RIVER AND A PINT IN DUBLIN
In mid-May 2022 Padma and I met up in Dublin with my sister Jenni and her husband Russ for a couple of days of steady wandering. We set out along the River Liffey on our first evening, crossing between the north and south quays as the light faded. Dublin is a city that reveals itself at walking pace – Georgian terraces, bridges stitched across the river, the dome of the Custom House catching the last of the sun. Later that night the weather turned and we pulled our jackets tighter, strolling…
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A PEACOCK, A BRAMEL AND A WINDY RIDGE
For a number of years, Padma and I have been hearing about a home on a hill in County Cork of southwestern Ireland. Despite numerous invitations from its owners, our friends John Peacock and Paula Bramel, we could never make the trip. But now we finally got a chance to visit our friends and learn of their adopted homeland. Padma and I knew John when we were all living in Syria in the early 1990s. We met Paula when she and John travelled to Australia in 2013 and then in one…
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