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Saturday, November 01, 2025

Dropping Linkedin and Twitter/X

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Yesterday, on the 5th anniversary of my retirement, I cancelled my accounts in LinkedIn and Twitter/X. I don't post on either anymore an...
Friday, October 31, 2025

Five years!!!

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This day five years ago I officially retired from the National College of Ireland - fortunately I was in a position to retire early at the a...
Tuesday, October 07, 2025

Pensioner

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It's official - I am now a pensioner having reached the ripe old age of 66! Born in 1959, I am now in my 8th decade (50s, 60s, 70s, 80s,...
Monday, June 30, 2025

Oslo - Day 3

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Our last day in Oslo and more culture - this time on Oslo's museum peninsula, Bygdoynes. Here we started in the excellent Fram museum, w...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

Oslo - Day 2

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To begin our second day in Oslo we first a look at the Holmenhollen ski jump arena which is beside our hotel. It is a magnificent structure ...
Saturday, June 28, 2025

Oslo - Day 1

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Norway is the 30th country I have visited, and we are staying in Hollerhollen in the hills above Oslo. Roma and I enjoyed our ride from Goth...
Thursday, June 26, 2025

Gothenberg - Day 3

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Today was our last full day in Gothenburg and we decided to get out of the city and visit Branno Island. This is reached by tram and boat - ...

Gothenburg - Day 2

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Today we decided to take it a little easier and get a day-pass public transport ticket. We have been walking a lot, and our first stop was n...
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Gothenburg - Day 1

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Our visit to Gothenburg began with rain. We decided early on that we would leave Copenhagen separately. Roma would take the train, while I w...
Sunday, June 22, 2025

Copenhagen - Day 2

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Another beautiful sunny day in Copenhagen, and we started out by taking the long walk to Christiania Freetown. It is a hippy-style location ...

Copenhagen - Day 1

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Our first day in Scandanavia is in Copenhagen where we are staying in the city centre. We did a walking tour with a tour guide (Papito) who ...
Saturday, June 21, 2025

Schlutup

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There is no way I would ever have heard of a town in Germany called Schlutup (near Lubeck), if it wasn't for a girl called Roma who I ha...
Thursday, June 19, 2025

Lübeck

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We begin our tour of Germany and Scandanavia in Lübeck. My journey to here on the motorcycle was uneventful - two ferries and two mostly mot...