Category Travel
Castles and churches and ice cream in Kilkenny
After a slow Sunday morning in Dublin, I caught a train to Kilkenny, a beautiful little medieval village to the southwest of the capitol. The journey took me (as I presume all journeys in Ireland do) through brilliant green countryside drenched in sunshine, dotted with sheep, and crisscrossed with hedgerows and low stone walls. I […]
Walking at Bray’s Head
One of my colleagues had recommended visiting Bray, a village on the coast a few miles south of Dublin, and walking up to the cliffs at nearby Bray’s Head. Thanks to the beautifully long days here in Ireland, I was able to make it there in time to watch the sun set. It was gorgeous. […]
Exploring Dublin
The weather could not have been more perfect for exploring Dublin today. Sunny, warm, a light breeze. Completely unlike the chilly rain so typical for this part of the world. Trinity College is just around the corner from my hotel, so I started there. I joined a student-led tour and learned, among other things, that […]
I’m in Ireland!
We’ve got a three-day weekend in the UK, and I wasn’t about to sit around at home doing the same old weekend routine. So I hopped on a Friday night flight to Dublin in search of adventure! I got in fairly late, so I didn’t see much of the city (that’ll have to wait until […]
Egypt in New York
Having just traveled through Egypt (and visited the Egyptian wing of the British Museum), I couldn’t not make a pilgrimage to the Met Museum’s famous Egyptian collection. In particular, I wanted to see the Temple of Dendur. I remembered feeling awed by it when I visited years ago, and I wanted to see it again […]
Weekend trip to New York!
As impossible as this may seem given my youthful glow, it has been ten years since I graduated from law school. Ten. Time for a reunion! Never one to pass up an excuse to spend time in New York, I took the day off work and flew out this morning. Weirdly, it takes nearly as […]
Weekend with the Bard
I went to work on Friday fully expecting to work late that night and then continue working all through the weekend. There’s more work to be done than I can accomplish during the week, and I don’t like waking at 3:45am with a ball of anxiety in my gut. But the weather has been incredible–sunny, […]
My Saturday in pictures
Started with brunch in South Kensington with a friend from my mission who I haven’t seen in ages, but who is also American and also expatting in London. No pics of brunch, but it was fun to catch up. In many ways we’re still the 20-year-olds we were in Brussels; but in other ways those […]
Nighttime in Brussels
Back in Brussels for a night. Meetings start in the morning and then I’m on the train back to London — so I took tonight for a lovely walk around the old town center. The amazing Grand Place, the cathedral where I went contacting–jet lagged–on the first day of my mission, the little pita shop […]
Egypt at the British Museum
Guess what? When you live in London your Egyptian vacation doesn’t have to end when you come home! Those acquisitive Brits brought a lot of the good stuff home during their colonial heyday. To be honest, it felt a bit strange to see the statues, sarcophagi, and mummies in the British Museum. I felt like […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 