Archive for February, 2008
Over the February 22-24, 2008 weekend, the myguideTravel team exhibited at the annual Boston Globe Travel Show at the Seaport World Trade Center on Boston’s Waterfront. I was fortunate enough to be part of the team who worked at the event and I must say it was very impressive. There was over 250 exhibitors on hand, with such destinations as diverse as India, Egypt and Malayasia. We were on hand to promote our destination specialist brands myguideIreland, myguideBritain and myguideScotland. Despite a snowstorm on Friday that dropped about 8 inches (2o centimeters) on the city, the turnout was strong with approximately 13,000 people coming through the doors.
February 27th, 2008
Having founded and worked on myguideTravel for almost 10 years, I recently found myself wistfully looking at new opportunities. By my very nature I am entrepreneurial. It all began when I started selling vegetables to my mother while I was still in primary school in Castletownshend. All the lessons of entrepreneurship were to be found working on my vegetable patch.
- Seed capital was just that, my mother used to give my brother and I a loan for seeds at the start of every season.
- Some products worked great (cabbage) whereas others flopped every season (Ireland is a tough place to grow tomatoes without the capital for a greenhouse).
February 26th, 2008
So began my introduction to lard. I do try to eat a balanced diet, high in fibre, plenty of fruit and veg, any fats in my diet tend to be monounsaturates and polyunsaturates. If anyone from my health insurer is reading, please stop now!
The waiter had instructed me as follows
- This he pointed at the rye bread
- This he pointed at the pickles
- This he made a digging motion towards the HUGE dish of lard
- And this he did a shaking action with the salt cellar
- He then declared it to be delicious, for final effect he kissed his fingertips
February 9th, 2008
To me it never was a wosp, it’s always been a wasp. I was listening to Ray Darcy on Today FM during the the week and Ray had a piece about how the word wasp is pronounced. Ray was trying to impress upon his listeners that he grew up in a family of 11 in Co. Kildare and then proceeded to pronounce the word as if he was schooled in Eton.
All joking aside, this is one of the things that I love, as I travel to our various offices.
- In Boston, the traditional accent is non-rhotic, you don’t hear the “r” at the end of a syllable or just before a consonant. So there is no “r” when you go to pa-k your ka- in Ha-ved
February 2nd, 2008
The ferry Riverdance was hit by a huge wave off the Lancashire coast last night. The ferry was crossing between Warrenpoint in Northern Ireland and Heysham in England.
Thankfully the crew and passengers were rescued without any serious injury. News media in Ireland and in Britain are reporting that the freight ferry still has not being re-floated today. It’s mornings like this morning, that remind the Irish and British public that we live on relatively small islands, in a very big ocean.
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February 1st, 2008