WALKABOUT: TRAVEL BLOG
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Peace Walls, Belfast
2023-09-06 11:59:04 UTC
Faces of Resistance
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Belfast is known for being the former epicenter of the Troubles, the conflict that ran approximately 30 years and ended with the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. Known as a conflict between the Protestants and Catholics, it was mostly…
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Crawford Gallery Cork
2023-08-31 10:21:24 UTC
When I travel I seek out museums and galleries to explore. This is a relatively new thing, when I was young I rarely visited museums, and if I did, they were places like the Smithsonian Air & Space museum, or the Hirschhorn Sculpture garden. It’s not like I hadn’t seen…
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Old School Photo Shop, Dublin
2023-08-26 08:43:43 UTC
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Imagine running a camera shop these days. First, you must compete on price with the large shops like B&H in NYC and Amazon, not to mention the online printers like Shutterfly. Then there is the expense of running the shop; rent,…
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Un-Corked
2023-08-20 15:01:17 UTC
Morning panorama
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Sometime in the mid-1990s I was invited to a December wedding in Cork and I have been wanting to get back since. Life got in the way, but I am here now, enthusiastically, to spend 5 days, the last leg…
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Double Down on Dublin
2023-08-17 13:29:26 UTC
Custom House
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I’m at the end of my week in Dublin. My head cold/cough sapped my energy a bit and I didn’t see as much of the city as I would have liked, especially some of the more prominent architectural buildings…
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Belfast Walkabout
2023-08-12 06:46:58 UTC
City Hall
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When I visit a city I like to do a little dive into its history to give some context to my photographs. Belfast’s location goes back to the Bronze Age, it was established as a town in 1613, and Queen Victoria…
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Bar Wars
2023-08-09 06:39:50 UTC
I was struck by two things as I took my first walk around Belfast center, the number of pubs, not too much a surprise anywhere in the U.K., and the number of coffee places; a 2:1 ratio, whiskey to caffeine. Three of the whiskey variety are the Nicholson’s Crown Bar…
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The Irelands. Not Touring. Not Sorry
2023-08-07 08:25:45 UTC
Sun rising as we approach Dublin
Every summer I endeavor to escape the heat and humidity of Washington D.C. for gentler climes. It started a few years back with a couple of months in Oceanside CA, followed by a summer in Boulder CO. I read that it could be hot…
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Redux
2023-07-21 21:51:50 UTC
Original Washington National Airport Terminal
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Summer in Washington, D.C. is my least favorite season, it’s hot, it’s humid, it drains my energy. In fact, I try to escape the swamp - and no, I am not using that term politically - for at…
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Glass Houses
2023-06-18 18:52:11 UTC
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In a recent post I gave you an overview of the Hillwood Mansion, the former home of Marjorie Merriweather Post, now a museum. There is another building on the estate, the Adirondack building, which is currently showing most of the pieces from the new…