It had to happen sooner or later, a pub session at the Oliver Plunkett in Cork city. We came in for a quick drink; my first real Guinness in nearly 5 years. We stayed for meal while being entertained with great live music. And captured a few images to remember our first night back in […]
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‘The Choir of Man’ is a great show. The performers are talented, have amazing voices, stage presence and thoroughly entertained their enthusiastic audience. Yes I enjoyed the show and of course it’s about men but I really missed the feminine balance. At times I found it just a little too ‘blokey’. I soon got over […]
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Ølhallen in Tromsø may be the oldest pub in the Arctic but at ninety years it is certainly Tromsø’s oldest. I am sure they did not start out with 72 beers on tap but 90 years later that long bar with all those beers is an impressive sight. Just watching the barman pour our tasting […]
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When I took this image outside of an Edinburgh pub the myths of ancient Greece could not have been further from my mind. Then I started reading the works of Homer. A recurring theme in both Homer’s ‘The Iliad’ and ‘Odyssey’ is the omen of a bird in flight. Even more powerful is where a […]
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We spotted the Logan Pub on our way from St Arnaud to the Wehla Conservation Reserve and I made the mental note, ‘I must photograph this pub on our way back’. The sun was low and the light had that soft afternoon glow when we headed back to town and there it was again, the […]
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