Showing posts with label weekend. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weekend. Show all posts

Monday, October 01, 2012

A nice weekend in Dublin

I went to spend the weekend in Dublin.

Summary:
Weekend in Dublin snapshot #moxie #zoo
Summary of the weekend


After doing a bit of shopping in the city centre, we went to the Just In Time For The Apocalypse: 2012 group show at Moxie Studios - a bit hard to find the warehouse, but we did it.
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Designer room in mox.ie

Love the central piece by the very talented Sinead Doyle - see more: http://sineaddoyle.ie/ .

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Flock of clock birds by Jenny Walsh

Also like the clock by designer Jenny Walsh - see more: http://www.jennywalshdesign.com .
 

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Inside mox expo

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Exploring the mox....

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Tree rug 



Off course there was time for food, and some guiness...
Sunday dessert
Dessert time



 Sunday was even more relaxing with a visit to Dublin Zoo ( http://www.dublinzoo.ie/ )
Old entrance lodge Dublin zoo
The old entrance of Dublin Zoo

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The africans plains in the heart of Dublin

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Happy life for the lemur .. I like to move it , move it...

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Sea Lion
Sadly we miss feeding times for the sea lions, and we were'nt able to see the Meerkats ( http://www.dublinzoo.ie/News/66-75/Meet-the-Meerkats.aspx ) but as a result I am even more motivated to go back another time.

Monday, September 07, 2009

Week End Summary - 20090906

Movie of the WE
(500) days of Summer


Good comedy about an hopeless romantic :o, and as so rightly said this is not a love story, but it has brilliant ideas.

Things I learned this weekend
5. I've got concentration issues.... should I blame internet ????
4. Edinburgh seems to be a nice city to live in, and there is a bar called the Tass ( like the french word cup )
3. The last and only other time a team won four Senior All Ireland in a row was in the fourties (Cork at the time)
2. There is stuff I know but which keeps surprising me, like Winter can start early in Ireland... here we go for the real dark rainy months...
1. Loads about myself, other interesting people, and how wrong i can sometimes be.

Songs of the week end
- Mick Flannery "I wish you well"
- Hall & Oakes "You make my dreams come true"
- Simon & Garfunkel "Bookends"
- The Smiths "There is a light that never goes out"
Take me out tonight....
- The Eagles "Take it easy"

And an interesting blog about expat experience: Lyonnaise in Vancouver

Thursday, October 26, 2006

finally a post....

Long time since I've been blogging regularly, just to keep up to date.

Activities:
- Sailing ( at least trying to learn ), fantastic week-end with the University of Limerick Activity Center. I have just done the course start sailing Level 1, and looking forward for the level 2.
- Nintendo DS: Brain Training and Brain Academy.. and so far the results BT = 26 year's old brain and BA = 1300g brain weight....
Unit of alcohols: 1 last week.
Books read: "Ubik" and "A Time out of joint" by Ph.K.Dick

Links:
- Le petit champignacien [FR], if you like the champignac mayor.
- BBC1 Zane Lowe Radio Show
- The nintendo Wii will be soon in our saloons...You can watch videos of people trying the system... my favourite is this french girl. Probably the most exciting console ( for the concept ) to come.

A mystery [FR]
Dans Truismes de Marie Darrieusseq, page 52 de l'édition P.O.L :
Un jour la dame en noir, l'amie de ma vieille cliente, m'a donné un euro. Elle croyait que j'avais faim.
Rien ne vous choque?
Le roman est paru en 1996, soit trois bonnes années avant le passage à l'euro (le premier janvier 1999). Même dans les bourses internationales, cette monnaie n'était pas utilisée avant 1998 ou 1999.
Étrangement, mieux que les autres disparités délibérement uchrononiques du récit, c'est ce détail-là qui le place pour moi dans une sorte d'anticipation bizarrement proche.
Ce n'est pas moi qui est remarque mais je l'ai decouvert ici.

Brickmania

Lego Smurf castle ??   Eva.... massive build Swimming in bricks ?