Thank god for hype and expectation being delivered on every so often - the burgers, the music and atmosphere in Jo Burger in Rathmines village, Dublin 6 is everything I had been lead to believe. Closing in on a year here in Dublin, it is consistently the one place recommended to me for eating. […]

Never one to pass up a coy pun on a movie title there is much suggestion we’ve been romancing the wrong stone today as an archaeologist has claimed we are in fact kissing a stone only in use since 1888, the original stone presenting a health and safety risk as it involved dangling people of […]

Sunday brought me with a gang of 15 to Marlay Park and a trek to Enniskerry, 21 km in all on a nicely dry, yet breezy day, one that seemed disappointingly hazy to begin with yet somehow the sun that fractured through the clouds cast the wonderful Wicklow surrounds in gorgeous light for the day. Tonight […]

The Chester Beatty Library, in the grounds of Dublin Castle was recommended to me shortly after I moved to Dublin and only with the beckoning of the new year have I gotten around to visiting. Both an art museum and library, the venue houses a great collection of manuscripts, miniature paintings, prints, drawings, rare books […]