Train tracks lead off over the River Liffey in Dublin from the Tara Street Railway Station. Liberty Hall stands in the background on the other side of the river.

It’s not every day you see a man walk by with a cat lying across his shoulder, but this day in Malaga I did. He was squeezing some kind of paste on to his finger, which I presume may have been a treat for his cat. That cat was very interested in what he was…

On a busy street in Dublin, with the rain falling. Luckily, most people came prepared with umbrellas.

Washing on the line, flowers growing in pots, a satellite dish receiving signals from space. All things you see in any other back garden, but visible in the middle of Dublin city on Holles Street.

A woman reads her newspaper in a café on Grafton Street, Dublin.

Twenty years ago on the streets of Chicago I saw a carriage being pulled by a horse and a bored driver. Today I learned while looking up more information about these trips that Chicago banned horse drawn carriages in 2021. Prices seemed to range from $120/hour up past $500/hour.

I remember visiting the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid and I loved it. I visited Madrid in 2003 to stay with a good friend for a week. Back then, we only had rubbish 1mp cameras on our phones, if they had cameras at all. I had my Sony F717 with me and with a…

Numerous boats are tied up at Navy Pier in Chicago, as well as a small U.S. Coast Guard boat. This was away back in 2003. I have no idea what the place looks like now!

Humans and dogs watching the Ladies Mini Marathon in Cork in September 2004.

A LEGO shop opened on Grafton Street, Dublin, this year. I saw queues outside it as kids and harassed parents waited to get in.

No sign of Flash Gordon yet, but Ming the Merciless is in Blackpool, Cork on Berwick Lane.

Two leprechauns dance on St. Patrick’s Street, Cork. Tourists and children must love them, I guess.