I find heat difficult to cope with. I’m not even talking about the sunburn factor – just the wamth itself is enough to make me spend my days groaning miserably and fanning myself ineffectually with a magazine. When I was in Nashville a few years ago I had to be rushed from air-conditioned building to [...]
Filed under: contemplation, decisions, disorganisation, Estonia, Fear, hair, packing, sun, weather, woe, worry | 6 Comments »
Dudes. I fear I’m, like, regressing to my Hippie years. I really hope I’m not becoming one of those characters who go travelling in a depressing attempt to ‘find’ themselves. I’m not lost. I’m right here, and I know who I am. Maybe it’s more a case of my gradual realisation of how much more [...]
Filed under: contemplation, fun, happy, laughter, life, lyrics, singing, songs, travel | 4 Comments »
I’m not normally one for posting photos of myself on my blog. There are enough Genuinely Frightening photographs of me on various social networking sites to scare anyone for life, and I generally try to compensate by not adding any more. This, however, has to be seen for my foolishness to be believed. The cheesy [...]
Filed under: beach, conversations, day trip, Estonia, Fear, holidays, kids, laziness, pain, sun | 4 Comments »
How do you get from Lyon to Brussels for less than fifty quid? It’s not a joke, it’s just a question I’ve been pondering today as I practise my window-sunbathing once more and plan the next few months of my nomadic existence. I think I’ve got the hang of it, mes amis, and life now [...]
Filed under: dreams, friends, fun, happy, Moving house, simplicity, summer, travel | 8 Comments »
Following my Father Jack reference in yesterday’s post, I’ve been asked by a confused Non-Irish to explain what I meant. I could just tell you to watch this short clip… …but it probably still wouldn’t make an awful lot of sense, right? And so it falls to me to represent my people and tell the [...]
Filed under: confusion, Father Ted, friends, fun, humour, Ireland, laughter | 5 Comments »
Would it cheer up all you grumbling Ballymenites who moaned about the Irish weather following my previous post (“That’s one way to alienate your readers,” commented Riho, “write posts complaining about sunburn when they’re all stuck in the rain.”) if I told you that we’re all in the same (waterlogged) boat now? Yes, today it [...]
Filed under: aliens, Ballymena, confusion, contemplation, drinking, drookit, strange, weather | 5 Comments »
I’ve just realised that I’ve managed to get my back and shoulders spectacularly sunburnt. Please dismiss any images of lounging around soaking up the rays on a beach that that sentence might conjure up, for they would be wildly inaccurate. I’ve been working very hard today. On a Sunday, for shame. Tsk. Of course, ‘work’ [...]
Filed under: holidays, memories, school, sheer silliness, summer, sun, weather, work, writing | 5 Comments »
Well, not really. But giving the post a title like Thunderbolts and lightning… meh! would be boringly apathetic, and would fall dismally short of my normal melodramatic standards. The weather in Estonia is a tad unpredictable, as I discovered when I opened the window in a futile attempt to get a whiff of cool air [...]
Filed under: Estonia, uncertainty, weather | 1 Comment »
Woohoo! I got my first travel writing job! I was about to give up entirely on freelance writing, having become Extremely Fed Up with doing endless reviews of YouTube videos about yoga, raw food, and Deepak Chopra, for one dollar a time. There’s a McDonald’s in Tallinn. There are Irish bars in France. You know, [...]
Filed under: careers, foreign languages, travel, work, writing | 12 Comments »
“Well,” said Riho with a yawn as the episode of Lost ended and I emerged from behind my cushion, “I’m going to bed.” I looked at him in disbelief. “How can you possibly be tired?” I asked, gesturing outside. “It’s still broad daylight!” “Ye-esss…” he replied slowly, “but it’s also midnight.” This country is really [...]
Filed under: advice, coffee, conversations, Estonia, friends, light, normality, tiredness | 8 Comments »
You Say Goodbye, I Say… Historical Snapshots It Just Makes Me Happy
