I know I already have been complaining a lot about local prices. But this one I want to share. When I visited Cork last fall, I came across this shop in neon blue lights, filled with all kinds of cheap goods – some might say: rubbish – for cheap prices. Those shops are popular across [...]
My flatmate Tricia turned 25 a couple of days ago, and so we went to the nearby hot spot Ocean Bar (which, as the papers have stated recently, is struggling financially big time), where Paul would state that we “have the coolest apartment” / “live in the coolest area” / “are the coolest lads” over [...]
Look, they already built me a castle! (No, really they didn’t. It’s just a funny-named estate in South Dublin.) It’s exactly a month of being a Dubliner now – time to come to an interim conclusion. (Okay, it’s a bit early for that, but there are more of those to come.) 1. Left-sided driving still [...]
Goodbye Münster, hello Hamburg! – For a couple of days, the German metropolis at Elbe river will be my temporary home. From here, I’ll eventually take my flight to finally move to Dublin on Monday, August 18. Oh boy, what an immense effort to get two bicycles transported from one German city to another! Deutsche [...]