Going for a cup of cha?
You might go to this cafe in Porto, Portugal for a cup of tea. I always thought “cup o’ cha” was a Cork or Irish slang expression but a quick Google shows it used in the UK too. In Portugese the word “chá” means tea so when I saw this cafe that sign was the…
The MacCurtain St Construction Site
If you’ve driven along MacCurtain Street lately you’ll have noticed a few lanes are blocked and York Hill is completely closed. A 73-bed “micro-sleeper hotel” is going in there which I presume means rooms will be a little bigger than the capsule hotels in Japan..
From the floor of the Pantheon
Rome, November 2017.
The Ceiling of St. Giles’ Cathedral
I spent about 2 hours in St. Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh a few days ago. It was a wonderful and relaxing place to explore.
Shiny Páirc Uí Chaoimh
The rebuilt Páirc Uí Chaoimh in Blackrock, Cork.
The Pillars of St. Peter’s Square
Vatican, Rome. November 2017.
Antennas
Nowadays it’s mostly satellite dishes. Cork, August 2013.
Birmingham Library
Birmingham, UK. August 2016
The Victoria & Albert Museum Cafe
The cafe of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London is a stunning room at the back of the building. I photographed it while visiting London with a group of street photographers from Cork yesterday. We were over for the day and packed a whole lot of photography into the hours we had there. This…