[26.08.2005] Caledonian MacBrayne are a Scottish ferry company that transport passengers and vehicles from mainland Scotland to all the outlying islands off the Scottish Atlantic seaboard. I have been a customer of this company for over forty years, ever since I was just a wee slip of a lad in the 1950s, as I have family on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. In those distant days the ferries were not drive on/off as they [more]

[26.08.2005] The Phoenix Park in Dublin has the distinction of being the largest inner-city park in the whole of Europe. It is a truly marvellous amenity for the people not only of Dublin, bit of the whole of the country, and for the countless thousands of visitors who visit our Green Isle every year. When I say that it is a large park, I really do mean it is a LARGE park!! At 1,752 acres, it could quite literally take you days [more]

[25.08.2005] It would in all probability never even cross your mind to visit a prison as a tourist attraction when visiting a strange city. But if you ever find yourself here in Dublin, the capital of Ireland, then to leave without visiting what is probably one of the most famous prisons in Europe, Kilmainham Gaol, would be a serious omission from your agenda. No other place in the city will give you quite such an insight into [more]