Fly Me to the Moon
Google, Google, Google. This is the latest from Google – Flight Search. It lets you plan your trip with a few clicks of the mouse. It’s only available in the US at the moment but [...]
Summer of Love
“If you love music, mud and Mother Nature you’re probably heading to a camp site at some point this summer. But why take shelter in some dull, conventional tent? when you can recreate the Summer [...]
Blagging or Blogging?
This is the 200th post in the Raven Design Blog. We began blogging (or blagging) in January this year so for just six months we are not doing too bad. We are very happy with [...]
Mrs Beeton
I was surprised to read in my uncle, Paddy MacMonagle’s book Shreds and Patches that Mrs Beeton travelled through Ireland in the summer of 1860. Surprised, as when you think about it, a foodie like Beeton [...]
Any Holidays Planned?
You know when you are the barbers or the hairdresser and the initial chit chat runs out you get the question – “Any holidays planned this year?” It must be part of every hairdressing course [...]
Carry on Glamping
Now that there’s a s-t-r-e-t-c-h in the evenings it’s time to think of outdoorsy things. And for me that means only one thing – Glamping. Since my friend Mary-Jane told me last week, that she [...]
Flights for 50p
A friend of mine sent me this today. We ‘did’ European Studies together in Limerick a long time age – SO long ago now that the 25th reunion of our graduation was a few years [...]
Why can’t we do this?
Remember the joke “What’s the difference between Iceland and Ireland?” The answer was “One letter and six months” The six months meant that the Irish economy would collapse six months after Iceland. It might have [...]
Look at these lamps!
Ampelmännchen is the german for ‘little traffic light men’ and was the original symbol used at pedestrian crossings in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). So you can be sure little Angela Kasner (her first husband was [...]
The ‘type’ that loves letters
With all my rummaging around I’ve just found the place for you. In Berlin there is a dedicated museum for old unwanted letters. It’s called the “Buchstaben Museum” which is german for “Museum for Sad [...]
