COREY TARATUTA co-hosts the Irish Fireside Podcast and Blog. The Irish Fireside has been covering Irish travel and topics of Irish-American interest since 2006 and just celebrated its 100th Episode. When not trekking around Ireland, Corey is a freelance writer and designer, and blogs about living and working from the road at On the White …
“A child at Preah Vihear in Cambodia. Preah Vihear is being fought over by Cambodia and Thailand. Around a dozen soldiers were killed near Preah Vihear in the month around my visit.” Read more on Gary’s Arndt’s blog, Everything Everywhere.
Nearly thirty years ago. I went off on a Zen sesshin, or week’s retreat, at a Benedictine monastery situated in the hills bordering the edge of Wuerzburg in the winemaking region of Germany. The sesshin ended with an early breakfast on Easter Sunday. I walked down to the train station with my backpack full of …
Okay, so it’s not the most in-focus, well-composed photo in the world but I took it at night while inside a van with darkened windows. The driver told me I could take pictures, but if any of the pimps on the street saw me, they’d break the window and abscond with my camera. Hence the …
For a child growing up in 1970’s England, New York was a revelation. It was shiny, glamorous, attractively packaged. And there was so much choice. Take the cereal. In London we had cornflakes, ginourmous boxes of weetabix from the cash and carry (actually the individually packaged biscuits were quite cool, but weetabix for months on …
Today I woke before the alarm went off with thoughts of work and what I had to accomplish today. A couple of week’s ago I woke to what I thought was the sound of a cement mixer. It turns out it was simply the snoring of my trip mates. I might be forgiven the mistake …