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Share your travel tips…

Seeing that Google Maps now allows open collaboration, I’ve started a European Travel Map that allows anyone to add to it. View Larger Map Feel free to add in any useful info you can think of: Hotels to avoid, ones that are good Memorable restaurants The best pubs & clubs Engaging museums or art exhibits I would envisage that in the future, [...]


Salamanca Tapas Restaurant, St Andrew Street, Dublin, Ireland High quality tapas in a convenient central location My favourite restaurant in Dublin for several years now has been Salamanca. Being a tapas restaurant, it’s all about sharing and tasting. I normally recommend 2.5 dishes per person if you’re up for [...]


Maybelline Superstay Lipcolor Stays in place for 16 hours On my regular trips to the US, I’m always asked to pick up tons of Maybelline [...]


Talking sh*t about colonics….

Hopefully you’ve all been following the girls over on beaut.ie as they were sending themselves and those closest to them for colonic hydrotherapy and reporting back on this mysterious procedure. I happened to mention to them that I had been thinking about going for a colonic or three and they kindly offered me a [...]


This post talks a lot about Twitter – If you haven’t heard about the ‘latest internet phenomenon’ then click here to read a good definition. For those who don’t like clicking links, Twitter is a new web service that is like mini-blogging – it allows you to post a short message of up to 140 characters [...]


BarCamp SE – Pecha Kucha

Now that the secret of the Pecha Kucha session is out in the wild (or ‘Pikachu’ as Laura kept referring to it!), I thought I’d post up a few notes and links to the sites I talked about. Everyone else that spoke used del.icio.us for their links, and although I tried using it at [...]


The best of Dublin?

I have some French friends of friends coming over to Dublin for a 2 week English placement tomorrow. They’ve asked me to take them out on Saturday night to give them a flavour of Dublin nightlife, which should be easy enough – a few traditional pubs, then onto Temple Bar for the wilder side. Then [...]


One of the reasons that I hadn’t blogged over the past few weeks (apart from being sick) was that I had got bogged down and behind in all my surfing. I read a ton of blogs and news sites via NewsGator every day and if I don’t make time every day I soon fall [...]


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