Desmond Lodge
Travel Blogs from Limerick
Changes
... journey so far and see multiple moments where something has actually taken my breath away, something has imbedded it's mark in my brain. I think of who I was before I left, and how much I cared about what other people thought, and how some people walked away at the smallest problems when I needed them most. I am grateful for everyone who hurt me, because I see a direct line between those moments and where I am today. If I was still at school in ...
C'mon you can think of a clever title
My brother Dan, Iona, Bodhi and I went to Doon to checkout a plot of land that they were thinking of buying. It was about 1 h 45 m from Balinspittle. In the end it was a "bogged down land" on the bottom of a valley. But for 10,000 Euro for 4 acres what do you really expect? Not sure if Dan or Iona will buy it but we will see.
Later we went to Oola. It is about 14 km from Doon and ...
Encounters and Farewells
... of “woe is me I’m done I don’t want to leave I’ll just sleep and then feel sorry for myself because I am sleeping and not having fun” weekend.
I must brag about my Ritual Chant friend. She spent hours in the Trinity College Library, which you have to have special permission to use, and transcribed ancient texts of chants by St. Patrick into modern notation. And I got to sing some. How cool is that? (The Ritual Chant exam was this morning, by ...
A New Idea of Bedtime
... coming out of his instrument. I at last crawled into my own bed again at, oh, say, between 4 and 5.
The next day started rather slowly, as you can imagine. I visited the milk market in the . . . morning . . . of 1pm and ordered a steak and blue cheese ciabatta sandwich, listened to music, and walked back home for a little nap. Our visiting friend invited us to his family’s place along the Dingle Peninsula for his dad’s birthday. I spoke ...
Irish Music and Irish Johnny Cash
... many know, the bigger the group, the more logistic difficulties tend to present themselves. We decided to fracture into a few smaller groups to make it easier to get in somewhere to eat and then to reconvene at Nancy Blake's. I went with a couple of the girls to a place called the "Cornstore." It seemed to be a little hoitie-toitie, but the price wasn't too bad. I had a generously-sized burger made with Irish beef that was pretty ...