Dublin
What I’m still trying to find out is, “Where are all the actual Dubliners?” The guide books uniformly exhort us to spend as much time as we can in pubs […]
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Hang on, I’m Having a Moment…
In conversation with my long-suffering wife, it’s come out that we have different ways of exploring. Devon, I believe, thinks in terms of trajectories: how we will get from Point […]
Riding the Big Red/Green/Gray Bus
I have no right to make fun of bad English, especially in a country where I speak not a word of the regional language and only a handful in the […]
Because Chocolate’s a Food, Right?
So, everyone says Barcelona’s for foodies, right? To be fair, we have been stopping at our share of tapas restaurants in the past 36 hours, but the two real attractions […]
Never Been to Spain
Ever since we started planning this trip – when was it? – coming up on a year ago, I couldn’t start thinking about the first leg of it without the […]
Then and Now (or: “Here We Go Again!”)
Digging through that lovely time machine that’s the internet, I see we’re coming up on eight years ago that I started the Roadtrip Blog in an attempt to excuse my poor […]
You Knew I Would, Didn’t You?
I had no idea. Not until I’d resigned myself to unexpectedly spending a quiet evening in the Heathrow Sheraton. I unpacked my stash of overnight supplies, took a much-needed shower […]
And was Jerusalem builded here…?
And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England’s mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England’s pleasant pastures seen? On a day like this, it’s […]
This Story Doesn’t End the Way You’d Expect
Or maybe it does – I don’t know. Those of you who know me better than I know myself (and you know who you are!) will have to weigh in […]
Short Final
“Hold it, hold it…. airspeed… airspeed… hold it…hold…I’ve got the [whump] controls!” The only thing I can imagine more disheartening to a student pilot’s ears than “I’ve got the controls” […]
David Pablo Cohn 