Posted on June 30, 2007 by riihele
Today I would like to talk about style and shopping – yes, the one that is one of the best female pastimes that is known to man, as in, to humans. I used to be quite a retail-therapist at one time, but no longer.
Tis amazing that any which way one looks to in the nations [...]
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Posted on June 28, 2007 by riihele
It’s your very own tour guide Barbie here again doing her tour in the Emerald Isle – and yes, me cheeks are killing me with all that smiling…!! This time in the ‘logue it’s going to be about the cafes in the locale where I am staying at the moment and also of the cafes [...]
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Posted on June 24, 2007 by riihele
I said in my last logue that I would be writing about eating out in Ireland – and here it comes! The cuisine in Ireland has evolved to be very international indeed. When I think back to the time that I first arrived in these shores and how impossible or nigh impossible it was to [...]
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Posted on June 19, 2007 by riihele
About food, eating and the like is what I am going to write a few words in this entry today on the Travelogue from Dublin. The green, green grass of the Emerald Isle makes the cattle and also the sheep to produce the most tasty meat on this planet, I should think.
Before I arrived in [...]
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Posted on June 17, 2007 by riihele
This one of the Travelogues that I wrote last year this time while over there.
Today is the day in Ireland when there is the state funeral for one of the most controversial people in the Irish politics, Charles J. Haughey, who died a few days ago at the age of 80. When I arrived in [...]
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Posted on June 15, 2007 by riihele
”The Dead Sea has a climate which boasts year-round sunny skies and dry air with low pollution. It has less than 50mm mean annual rainfall and a summer average temperature between 32 and 39 degrees Celsius.The winter average temperature is between 20 and 23 degrees Celsius. The region has weakened UV radiation, particularly the [...]
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Posted on June 13, 2007 by riihele
I had only arrived in Ireland and been just for a few days in Dublin when the uncle living in Belfast died, and we all hurried to the funeral in the north – as in Northern Ireland. The funeral part was over and we were in the hotel for a meal and a chat [...]
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Posted on June 10, 2007 by riihele
These two friends are my daughter and her friend
in the countryside one summer in Ireland.
Photo by me.
“A FRIEND LOVES AT ALL TIMES”
(Proverbs 17:7 Ampl.Bible)
In some countries it is harder than in others to make the ‘cut’ – that is – to get into the mainstream of the life and the living [...]
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Posted on June 8, 2007 by riihele
It is not that I do not love the nature, but the nature does not love me! Love unrequited and one-sided is always tough and hard to bear. How come, you may wonder? Well, the fact of the matter is that ever since having the children, the extra bonus* was getting a curlier hair [...]
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Posted on June 7, 2007 by riihele
Mark Twain – said this and more on the link on the word happiness :
“Happiness is a Swedish Sunset
- it is there for all,
but most of us look the other way and lose it.”
Why the ‘Swedish’ I do not know. Could it be that in the summertime the sunsets in Sweden [...]
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