For those of you who like to count, specifically hours, this is just to let you know that once again Ireland is 6 hours ahead […]

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I always lied when asked this question in Kansas City.
Life is easier when you don’t tell the truth. And so is keeping a website, […]

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OK. Yes.
Personal effects from Kansas City have now been delivered, unloaded, and put into storage in Dublin where I won’t be seeing them again […]

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In America I wore two items of footwear. Trekking boots in deepest winter, and maybe a couple of months either side, and in summer sandals.
Sometimes […]

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You’ve heard me mention that I don’t like customer service in America.
Because you hear voices presumably.
Whatever the reason, it’s true. And last night I was […]

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I’ve been looking at the ground a lot today.
It’s one of the differences between Ireland and in Kansas City. Here in Ireland the ground […]

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It didn’t take Bob Geldof to let me know that we talk nonsense as a nation.
But unlike in the US we do it in […]

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Speaking of differences and similarities between Ireland and the US, it’s time for talk of seasons.
Brother the younger is long a fan of how the […]

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Since I’m on an animal jaunt, I want to talk about an animal here in the midwest that we don’t have in Ireland.
This is an […]

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Some final words then on The Wind That Shakes The Barley

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So I’m out for a walk in between Kansas City storms. Me and the dog are about half an hour in, right in the middle […]

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Courtesy of the four major search engines - yes Google is not the only orange - here’s just a sampling of some of the questions […]

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Reading reports of soccer matches here in Missouri is as foreign to me as reading reports of American sports.
However with some translation I can get […]

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In Saturday’s sunshine I was standing in the back garden watching a couple of things for about five minutes, or two hours - it’s hard […]

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KC Irish Translation #2
Said in KC: I live in the suburbs, do you live in the city?
Meaning to Irish Person: I live in the suburbs, […]

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Here’s something I was going to do a list of, but I’ve decided to post them one at a time and then to release the […]

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Dear Kansas City, the category I refer to as the celebration of the typically less-celebrated differences between Ireland and America has had the index order […]

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Hosting Tourists
Before I moved to the US, hosting tourists in Ireland is something I did my fair share of. Actually I think I did more […]

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Camping Without a Tent
I’ve been invited to go camping here in the middle of America next month. I know what this means.
It doesn’t mean […]

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Several years ago I was fortunate to be at a small party in a house in Dublin. Or Galway. Or Antrim. Or somewhere where I […]

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