Airports are amazing places to sit back and take in one of humanity’s simplest and at the same time most complex endeavors, travel. Once a man simply grabbed his hat, his coat, a bag of belongings then walked out the door and off down some road or path. Now there are machines, technology, customs, merchandising, […]
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This shop in the Irish village of Blarney reminded my of Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory but on a much smaller scale. That hot pink is something you’d never see back in my home town where the incumbent chocolate shops are all in white, creams and brown. Bring on the colour! Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Mind Meltingly […]
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The most common natural colour in Ireland is green, green grass, green treas, green hills and green mountains. This twilight over Cork however was a blazing ochre yellow as the illusive sun finds a way into the evening clouds. To the right is Saint Fin Barre’s Cathedral with the Cork Christmas Ferris Wheel. In the […]
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Saint Patrick’s Bridge, Cork, Ireland Saint Patrick’s Bridge across the River Lee with the imposing Cork English College behind, Saint Anne’s Church and Shandon Bells Tower to the left and Saint Mary and Saint Anne’s Cathedral to the middle left, is such a clichéd image of the city of Cork, Ireland that I’m sure I […]
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Happy New Year to everybody and welcome 2016. The new year was a quiet event for us this time around, at least as quiet as it can be at 10,000 metres above the Persian Gulf. There was no party and no fanfare. A few on the flight determined to rouse some festive spirit counted in […]
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