UK & Ireland

It was smiles all around today as Queen Elizabeth II, the 86-year-old monarch of the United Kingdom, held out her gloved hand to shake hands with Martin McGuinness, former IRA commander and current deputy first minister in Northern Ireland. The historic handshake, unthinkable even a year ago when jaws dropped as the Queen visited the Republic […]

Belfast: An Impressionist View of City Hall

Adventures & Musings by Jennifer RobinsonJune 25, 2012May 24, 2018

Adventures & Musings by Jennifer RobinsonJune 12, 2012May 24, 2018

Best Bookstore in Dublin: Hodges Figgis

One of Ireland’s greatest gifts to the world has been to literature. James Joyce, Bram Stoker, Frank O’Connor, William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, C.S. Lewis, Oscar Wilde, the list goes on and on. A great way to pass an afternoon or two in Dublin is to stop by Hodges Figgis, the country’s best bookstore, […]