Category Archives: ireland

Billion Euro House

March 26, 2012 – 12:47 pm

In fall of 1997 I rented a converted schoolhouse in Ballyconeelly from Lord Guinness of the Guinness Beer fortune. The monthly rent for the autumn was 600 Irish pounds or almost $1000. I was splitting the cost with my friend Ty Spaulding, but upon arriving at the desolate dwelling in the coastal bogs I discovered […]

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SCREAMS IN THE EARS Billy Fay

February 22, 2012 – 1:33 pm
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Starving Snowman

February 18, 2012 – 12:41 pm

The Swedes have an expression; In spring no one thinks of the snow that fell last year. One Swede might argue that point, for AP reported that police in thenorthern town of Umeaa have rescued a motorist stranded deep snow since December. No one reported the man in his mid-40s as missing and he was […]

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The Cliffs of Moher

February 13, 2012 – 11:08 am

Last Tuesday I boarded a plane at JFK for Orlando, Florida. My two travel companions, AP and his financier Jerry Mumbels, were attending a builders’ convention. I was just along for the ride. My seat had been reserved as an after-thought and I was seated by the window in the rear of the plane. The […]

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The Streets Of Paris

November 18, 2011 – 6:09 am

Thirteen years was a long time to stay away from Paris. The city had traded on the grime of the 20th Century for cleansed stones. The streets were avenues of luxury stores. I spent most of the morning searching for a beret. I had no success. Paris might be eternal, however it was not the […]

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