First thing on the list….. Soup, soda bread and a Guinness! Dun Laoghaire, Peoples Park on Sunday afternoons. Food carts and farmers market. Trip to Ikea to stock up on few things for our bedrooms. First look at the Rathdown Senior School for Girls. The art room. Sending our support and […]Read Post ›
Very special family visit. Kim’s aunt, uncle, cousin, husband and kids on a bus headed up to Johnnie Fox’s Pub to celebrate our wedding anniversary where we celebrated our marriage 15 years ago. My cousin Erin, her husband Eric and baby Russell (big kid on the left) attend our wedding in 2000. Very special night to have […]Read Post ›
Dinner at Micah’s house. Tom sharing some family photos. Derek ( Tom’s cousin), his wife Nadya, kids Yana, Marta. Far right Hans (Tom’s uncle). Queen of the combine harvester! Derek, Monika and Hans Trampoline Power. Marta and Yana […]Read Post ›
Reichstag building. East German Trabant Car. Jewish Memorial Museum. Jewish Memorial Mom is not happy the girls are running and giggling around the memorial. Auf Wiedersehen Berlin!
I don’t remember taking this photo, but it tells a lot. We stayed at the Raddison Blu hotel and took the Lux Express bus from Tallinn. Easiest and most comfortable 5 hour bus ride ever! Greek Orthodox Church. Freedom Monument. Shwemma, third position. Saw these girls trying to put their phone on a ledge to […]Read Post ›
Our first night in Riga I had mackerel, blood sausage and pig’s ear. The mackerel and bold sausage where wonderful but the pig’s ears we not something I’ll try again. Loved the old trams. Our hotel is the tall building in the distance. This is a view from the hotel elevator. We managed to get […]Read Post ›
First night out in Riga we had dinner at IL Patio al fresco. Tom made some darning choices, on the left mackerel and on the right, stuffed pig ear and black pudding. He liked everything, but the pig ear could have been prepared better, not so ear-like. Next are all the photos for the outdoor […]Read Post ›
Holly and I visited the Open Air Museum just outside Tallinn. We got to take the public transport which was fun trying to figure how to pay for tickets. On the bus was the great sticker for special seating. The museum itself is very interesting. lot and lots of old farm steads, and some other types […]Read Post ›
Vagabond Diaries 