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Festivals and Holidays

-Paris

Bastille Day Preparations

I was enjoying a quiet lunch on  Île de la Cité, when the roar of jets overhead beckoned me outside into the rain. Sheltering, to no avail, under a tree I […]

-Barcelona

The Giants of Pi

Back in the Middle Ages, in Barcelona, the giants Goliath and St. Christopher, along with several monstrous beasts, were an important part of the Corpus Christi celebration.  Guivernau recognised the Giants of […]

-Ireland

X is for… XVI June

As mentioned in James met Nora, XVI June is Blooms Day. I took yesterday’s Lincoln’s Inn photo last year, 2013, but by some weird coincidence I ended up back in Dublin yesterday, June […]

-Ireland

Where James met Nora

-or Happy Bloomsday  On 16th June 1904, James Joyce met his wife Nora Barnacle for the first time.  Well, actually, it seems they first met on 10th June but they […]

-London

Lilies at Easter

Easter lilies, along with cute chicks and bunnies and chocolate eggs, have become an emblem of Easter and they were out in force at the Columbia Road Flower Market this Easter Sunday. […]