BowlingJoe

After a three month hiatus, maybe it’s time to kickstart this blog again. Not too much has been happening since my last post in November. ...

As a fan of good real ale , you didn't think that I'd pass up an opportunity to dedicate a full blog post to all that the UK and Ire...

We said goodbye to Scotland (for now) on the morning of September 26th, taking the train to London via a change at a small station in the to...

My late uncle, Earl Clark, once told me after a vacation in Scotland that he felt like he was going home. I was excited to be finally going...

In my youth, whenever I heard the word “ Belfast ” on the news it was usually preceded by adjectives such as “divided” or “war torn”. We w...

Galway, Ireland is a vibrant city of around 70,000 people and the third largest in the Republic. We chose to visit because of its reputati...

Was he or was he not? That was the question on the news, as we woke up on September 15th, regarding the sobriety of Irish Prime Minister (c...