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Doolin 2019
Unfortunately due to circumstances beyond our control, we weren’t able to spend the weekend of the Doolin Folk Festival in the trailer tent. This meant that we missed out on being cold, wet and uncomfortable […]
Month: June 2019
Holiday
Festival of writing and ideas: Day 3
A gentle start with Julian Barnes (author of loads of books I really like) and Paul Muldoon (Pulitzer Prize-winner for poetry) chatting about life in a very unstructured fashion. An excellent continuation of the day’s […]
Holiday
Festival of writing and ideas: Day 2
11-12 noon: Dalrymple’s India. An hour of William Dalrymple presenting some highlights of the last five years of his work on the book “The Anarchy: The Fall of the Mughal Empire and the Rise of […]
Holiday
Festival of writing and ideas: Day 1
Straight off the Dublin ferry at 5am, we made our way through the quiet streets towards Boris. We weren’t allowed to show up until early afternoon, but thankfully friends in Kildare were awake enough that […]
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It’s not the leaving of Liverpool that grieves me…
We set off from Harrogate at 4pm, heading for Liverpool and the overnight ferry to Dublin. I’d spent a fair few hours re-working our trailer tent to make it more suitable for carrying cargo (and […]