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New Years Resolutions 2007

Posted on December 22, 2006, under irishblogs, Living in Germany.

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Just trying to get 5 things that I am going to do next year

  1. Call the landlord and explain to him that he needs to fix the mould and the windows. I’ve been procrastinating this for the past year or so.
  2. Learn to ruffle shuffle properly, and play some more poker.
  3. Finish the website and think of doing a few more, with wordpress & phpbb and other nice things.
  4. Take more photos and post them up here.
  5. Buy a German newspaper at least once a week and aim to read most of it.
  6. Spinning twice a week and gym at least one other day. Time to get some abs ;)
  7. visit my friends and family in the UK

      8. more to come once I mull over them…

      I’m back … with the help of Aerlingus & Ryanair

      Posted on December 20, 2006, under irishblogs, Theories.

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      There’s been a few reports of fog in Ireland and the UK. I somehow made my way home through the fog yesterday. It involved the following events, in no particular order.

      • eating 2 panninis (one in Germany, the other in Ireland), drinking 4 coffees (1/3)
      • getting a flight from Dublin, at 11:30am, which was delayed 50 minutes due to weather problems (see pics below)
      • landing in Dublin and waiting for 6 hours for a flight to Cork
      • getting a fright seeing that Aer Arran had cancelled all their flights to Cork and to many other destinations.
      • stealing some free WLAN at the airport as well as some electricity, near the check-in section I could get a good reception, but it was disrupted by people standing in front of me.
      • seeing a young lady (21 or so) breast feed her kid opposite McDonalds and the look of disgust/intrigue from people eating their Big Macs.
      • landing in Cork and surprised by the fact that there is a Starbucks and a Subway there !

      The pics of fog, after landing in Dublin yesterday:

      DSCN1358 DSCN1359

      During out flight the captain of the Ryanair flight mentioned that conditions in Cork were just below the minimum to land the 737-800, and we might have to divert. Thankfully 15 minutes later were were safely braking on Cork Airports runway. The weather doesn’t seem to be getting better, today there is 160/400 flights cancelled by BA alone in the UK !

      So the trip back took 12 hours, where as before when there were direct flights between Cork & Munich it took only 4.5 hours to go door to door. :( Maybe when aerlingus get to read my other blog post they will put the Cork/Munich route back into operation.

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