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What is your idea of happiness? Reading by the sea What is your favourite virtue? Quietness What do you most value in your friends? Art of listening for the male. Confidence and humor for the women. What is your biggest weakness? Constant criticism What is your most marked characteristic? Beard and disorganised hair style What is your idea of misery? Losing my daughter What is your favourite bird? Red robin Who are your favourite writers? China Mieville, Philip K. Dick, Jules Vernes, J. Prevert, Henri Michaux. Who are your favourite musicians? Bach, Beck, Jethro Tull, Radiohead. Who are your favourite heroes and heroines in fiction? Hatteras, Mary Poppins. Who are your favourite heroes and heroines in history? Louise Michelle, Socrates, Isaac Newton, Grace Hooper. What is your favourite food and drink? Andouillettes. Diabolo menthe. What event in history do you most admire? The fall of the Berlin wall. What ...

Well much like last year, I posted even less, found even less time to code and go diving. However it has been a great year, a challenging one, but a great one.  All thanks to my daughter. Love. --- I recommend :  https://www.futureme.org/ to keep track of your new objectives for the year. I am still working on mine.

Continuing from Dublin bucket list and that old post from 2008, on the 10 best things to do in Ireland , here's my Irish bucket list (omitting Dublin ): See Fungi the dolphin in Dingle, and have a swim with Dustin in Doolin.   ✔ ✔ Visit Newgrange   ✔ Visit the Titanic exposition in Belfast   ✔✔ lock-in a pub ( not necessarily drunk).  ✔ See the Giant Causeway  ✔ Games Of Thrones film location road trip : Tollymore Forest Park. Castle Ward. The Dark Edges. Downhill Strand. Ballintoy. Shillanavoghy Valley. Walk to the top of Croagh Patrick A road trip along the Atlantic Film Trail: Leenane (Movie: The Field) Cong (Movies: The Quiet Man, The Purple Taxi) ✔ Roundstone (Movie: Into the west) Dingle Peninsula (Movies: Far and Away, Ryan's daughter) ✔ Derrynane (Movie: Excalibur) Union Hall (Movie: The War of the button) ✔ Kilmichael - Co Cork (Movie: The wind that shakes the barley) Youghal (Movie: Moby Dick) See the Cliffs of Moher ✔ - bonus: On ...

My irish Dublin bucket list, largely inspired by French Foodie ( See her's http://www.frenchfoodieindublin.com/2015/12/my-dublin-bucket-list.html ) Kayaking on the royal/grand canal. Cycle along the royal canal. (grand canal too). Swimming at the 40 foot. Visit St. Valentine in Whitefriar Street Church. Visit the Teeling Whiskey distillery. See the Final of the Hurling GAA championship in Croke Park, if possible featuring Limerick - Might have to wait a long time for that one. Go to a show in the Abbey Theatre. See the deers in the Phoenix Park. Cycle in Phoenix Park. Cycle in Clontarf. Visit Jeanie Johnston tall ship and famine museum. Visit the National Gallery of Ireland. - the restaurant is very decent, but so far I have not been to the gallery itself. Visit the Dublin Writers Museum. Visit the Áras an Uachtaráin. Sail in Dublin Bay. Visit the Irish National War Memorial Gardens. Go see Roller Derby in Tallaght (National Basketball Arena) Go to the National Aquatic Centre. ...

And this is how we started exploring the dodder .... Where you can see a Rhino in the river Rhino A Weir weir Two Pals looking for grub. Fishing Chilling under trees chilling water Under the trees

So last weekend we travelled to Iceland, a brilliant birthday from my adorable girlfriend. HALLGRÍMSKIRKJA CHURCH Graf Reykjavik   Geysers Misc Not much to say except that I hope to come back.

2015 was a weird year for me, despite my vows (expressed in that post ). It felt like nothing much happened, that I was stuck in static place, and yet I am ending the year with the biggest event of my life: becoming a father. A year which saw an imbecile and horrific attack on the newspaper which embodied my student spiritual life (Charlie Hebdo ), the resulting death of Wolinsky and Cabu. At the beginning of the year, I thought I'd be I have been a shitty friend throughout 2015, to some people going through hardship. Once more I gave up on the leading diver exams, I did not blog and write as much..... That year felt like hibernating and now I am a dad....