//criticaldispatches.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/thessaloniki.jpg The last week has been spent eating, drinking and sleeping on holiday in the Northern Greek city of Thessaloniki. Held up in traffic while on a drive through the city’s main commercial district, we caught shot of this fantastic mural and I was able to take a quick picture before the light turned green…
Tag: Holiday
A Break in Brighton
To call Brighton an eccentric town would be a criminal understatement. Some call it the gay capital of Europe, and on every street you will spot flamboyant queens, proud transvestites and every assemblage of the LGBT initialism.
A Long Walk Through The City
Soon we found ourselves in Bloomsbury where around every corner you half expect to find T.S Eliot or Virginia Woolf stood in discussion with one of their literary acquaintances from that little bourgeois social circle of theirs. When Americans see London in their movies, says my old man, this is the London they are seeing.
Just about everybody in the UK is thinking this right now…
Edit: This is my 100th post on As I Please. Hurray!
Some Time Off On Achill Island
The good people of Achill will always ask how you are fixed for a drink, be it a water, a jar of stout, or a whiskey to warm you after a walk in the rain. There’s always a relation or a friend visiting from abroad and the people who live here want to show a…
A Quick and Silly One
I spotted this sign whilst taking a break in Greece. I can’t help imagining that it is actually warning: “Please don’t chop up your own arm and then throw the pieces down the toilet,” or even: “Beware, death-ray currently in operation in the bathroom!” Do any of you have any captions that could be added?
The Impossibility of Boredom in London
Although at times it can be a bit of a bummer (cramped trains, endless queuing, rotten winters, short summers, a disturbing obsession with class, the occasional damp personality), for the most part, living in London is pretty awesome. Before leaving Ireland to live in the Big Smoke, my Dad, taking inspiration from Samuel Johnson’s quip that…
A Supposedly Fun Thing I Should Never Have Done in the First Place
On any a Sun holiday it is a near certainty that you will – at some point or other – be confronted with awful music, unsatisfactory food stuffs, overpriced drinks and intolerable people. With proper care, some solid preparation and a certain amount of luck, these annoyances can be somewhat avoided. In the case of…