I live with a rooster who considers it perfectly acceptable, if not the most natural thing, to start cock-a-doodle-dooing his little heart out at 2am. (Does he think this will make the sun rise faster ( Read more... )

When it rains (as is the pesky habit of this "rainy season") it pours ( Read more... )

First and foremost, upon reading about this "Vancouver heat wave" on my friend's blogs, may I just point out that I am living in West Africa and frankly you have no idea ( Read more... )

I just found out that when my bag came unzipped in the airport I lost a few malaria pills ( Read more... )

London hates me ( Read more... )

Had the most distrupted sleep ever last night thanks to rowdy French people coming back to the hostel at midnight and then entering and exiting the room/turning on lights/talking/laughing/knocking things over every 15 minutes or so until 3:30am. They left for a bit and then returned at 4am with some equally loud Australians. They barged in, noticed ( Read more... )

I left Ireland way too early this morning and am now in London. I was supposed to fly to Aberdeen yesterday to visit 2 friends there and then continue on to London, but there was a bit of a snag with that which was out of my control (they emailed me the night before and simply said, "don't come." and that's all I know as of now). SO not taking ( Read more... )

From the book 101 Places Not To Visit - Your Essential Guide to The World's Most Miserable, Ugly, Boring, and Inbred Destinations by Adam Russ:

PARIS ( Read more... )

My poor neglected blog!

I'm.
Such.
A.
Slacker.

Tomorrow is my last day in Dublin and I think that's fairly sucky.

In true Intermission fashion I put brown sauce in my tea this morning. It wasn't half bad at first, but then I took it too far and then the milk curdled ( Read more... )

There is nothing, and I mean NOTHING, classier than sitting underneath the Eiffel Tower at sunset, alone, drinking a bottle of red wine out of your NALGENE bottle...

Real updates on Paris to come when I'm back in Ireland and able to upload my pictures. The stories look a lot prettier that way. Patience.