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I wish my mother were still alive. Then I would buy her a flamboyant bouquet of flowers on this day. More important, I would sit by her sid...

Remission (medical): A decrease in or disappearance of signs and symptoms of cancer, signifying a major improvement, but not always a compl...

Whilst visiting my son in Wasilla, Alaska, we did a 271km overnight trip to Seward on Resurrection Bay. Highlights included the Resurrect Ar...

  My track 21.1km average 6.4 km/hr It was a cloudy and rather wet day that I decided to walk part of the Lagan and Lough Way aka Lagan Tow...

My track through Windy Gap and beside Lough Talt Waking several times during the night to preempt my alarm, I finally got up at 04:30, left ...

  Carlingford Greenway Amid reports of the remnants of Hurricane Erin affecting Irish weather, I had rescheduled the foray from Wednesday t...

Long ago I had considered cycling the Great Western Greenway (GWG) but had dismissed it because folk said its surface was, in parts, unsuit...

Sheep's Head - my track The facts The plan Bus 65 from the bottom of our road to the Square, Luas to Heuston station, train to Cork, wal...

River Slate, Rathangan My son gave me a North Face tent and my wife a backpack upgrade. But what good are they unless I use them? And so, wi...

Ever since I can remember I have preferred to run. I get irritated when, in a crowded street, other folk walk oh so slowly and I want to get...

Growing older. You don't think about it much until it happens to you. The mountain bike boy I met a few weeks back whilst walking in the...

Boys a dear ! An exclamation in norn-iron (Northern Ireland) speak. It's a great phrase because it can be used in so many different situ...

The primary purposes of this trip were to meet up with our relatives and (having so done) to spend a few days on our own to mark our 49th we...

I stood on the shore of a wintry sea, with a wintry sun just a few feet above its horizon-edge. It was bare, and waste, and gray. Hundreds o...

This was going to be taking advantage of maybe the last fine weather this year, an overnight cycle exploring the Grand Canal. But I was unea...

Anton Bruckner was born in Ansfelden (then a village, now almost a suburb of Linz) on 4 September 1824, that's 200 years ago. I feel so...

  My track: 186km over two days, elevation gain 440m The Royal Canal Greenway at 130km is the longest greenway in Ireland. As an off-road gr...