In the current climate it’s easy to forget why we travel. However, if you have about 4 1/2 minutes to spare, I think I can remind you why we will always want to experience the joy of travel.
Matt - he tongue in cheek describes himself as “a 31-year-old deadbeat from Connecticut” has danced his way around the world for the last number of years. This is no riverdance. His dancing technique can be best described as watching an octopus falling out of a telephone box.
However, combined with hauntingly beautiful lyrics there is something hypnotic about it. He visits a number of myguideTravel favourites such as
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).
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
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
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.
The Irish National Caucus based in Washing ton DC in a post dated 11 Jan 2008 titled National Geographic Loses Its Way on Ireland has forced that fine organisation to change how it refers to the British Isles.
In its Travel Catalog 2008- 2009 National Geographic gets lost even before it embarks on its guided tour of Ireland, May 11-24.
“Who wants to go with a travel company that is so geographically
confused and disoriented?” asked Fr. Sean Mc Manus, president of the
Capitol Hill-based Irish National Caucus.
Let me start by declaring that I fly with Ryanair - on a regular basis. If you live in Ireland they are difficult to avoid. Living on a small island, if you want to get anywhere in a hurry you have to fly. Ryanair are the biggest carrier into Ireland, thus I end up on Ryanair many times per year. Like most passengers I have mixed feelings about them. They did transform air travel and tourism to Ireland. However, it’s like to old adage “be careful what you wish for - you just might get it”. Surely someone can deliver a low cost flight with a smile.
Adjectives get abused by bloggers on a daily basis. However, from time to time you see something that just makes you stop for a moment and think - this is going to have a major impact on our industry….
Yahoo made a significant announcement today. They are going to support the OpenID 2.0 standard for universal Internet log-in for all their 250 million customers. For small niche companies like myguideIreland, myguideBritain et al. this is really huge. It’s a big ask for a small company like ours, to get our Guests to remember usernames and passwords.
What is OpenID?
OpenID eliminates the need for multiple usernames across different websites, simplifying your online experience.
You get to choose the OpenID Provider that best meets your needs and most importantly that you trust. At the same time, your OpenID can stay with you, no matter which Provider you move to. And best of all, the OpenID technology is not proprietary and is completely free.
We started blogging on the various myguideTravel websites last year. At the time in a company wide email, I announced that I would give a prize for the top blogger each quarter. This morning I was about to send out an email announcing the winner but thought that a blog post might be a better way to announce the winner. I am delighted to announce that Keith Roberts is our 2007 blog champion. His post on Whisky or Whiskey? generated huge interest on the myguideBritain website. Keith is a worthy winner and his passion for Britain and Wales comes accross in post after post. I will be having a small prize ceremony in our office in Wales next month and presenting Keith with a new Sat Nav. Rumour has it that he got lost in mid-Wales last month!
