Prague Property

On the first day of the year I try to imagine where I am going this next year. I write down what I want then I see it in my head, I take a couple of hours to do this and sometimes I get quite detailed. Often though it is a just reminder […]

Now in response to all of the above a friend of mine would say to me - why can you just not leave anyway? I have had several answers to this at various times and they all come down to me feeling like it would be rude in the particular situation. His answer […]

I smoke about twenty five per day and have done mostly for about 30 years. I keep trying to stop, trying being the pertinent word. Once I stopped for 18 months then I started again when I found out I had colitis – as I though stupidly it would help the colitis go […]

AerLingus has recently started to aggressively sell insurance every time you now buy a flight. Instead of the usual on site offer for an insurance quote there are now three little buttons hidden within the flight booking process where you have to opt out of having an insurance quote sent to your email address […]

I have just set up mobile broadband. I have had it running for three days now and I am amazed. I have been using Eircom for the last year and it sucks - I think it has to be the slowest broadband in the whole of Europe. The speed was 824kb per sec. […]

According to the latest Local Development Ministry data mortgage banks on the Czech market granted 83,344 new mortgage loans worth over Kc142bn to individuals in 2007.
In Prague alone, mortgage banks provided 24,000 loans worth Kc54.5bn and in the second largest Czech city, Brno, Kc13.4bn worth of them.
Overall, the volume of mortgage loans granted to individuals, […]

As the crises deepens on the world financial markets, share prices on the Prague Stock Exchange (BCPP) sank to the lowest level in over fifteen months. The PX index lost 4.62 percent to 1,489.6 points, according to the bourse results.
Power company CEZ, the most traded title on the bourse, shed over 5 percent to Kc1,170.
Dealers […]

I have lived here on and off over the last ten years and Ireland has been good to me. It was hard in the beginning moving country, not knowing people, not having friends here, but that has changed and this feels like home.
Anyway I was playing around with a domain name for the last […]

Saturday Morning and I sit as usual in front of my computer. I have a new site on Glendalough which is doing well and I like - that last part always seems to help. Writing these days has been hard going - I would much rather be out walking than building my websites […]

Just a photo from one of our visits last year to the West coast of Ireland. It can be a wild place - great for getting away from the city. I kinds feel like that kind of break could be due very soon again.
Came across an interesting blog recently. The Rambling Traveler […]