Recent content by Bladez

I totally agree. Great train service, fantastic scenery. But it's just so expensive, that it would put me off going there on a longer trip. A couple of years ago I cycled around Lake Konstanz and everything from accommodation to food was at least twice as expensive as in the German or Austrian...

I always found it crazy that a foreign language is not taught through the language itself. Maybe it has changed in the meantime, but even up to Leaving Cert everything would be explained through English. I think if the class was conducted completely in the language, it'd be much more effective...

I went to De La Salle in Churchtown, probably the least posh of all the rugby schools in South Dublin. I hated the place. Everything revolved around the cult of the rugby team. I remember a bunch of us being reprimanded for not trying out for the team. Then there were the half days so you could...

I remember when the first traffic lights in the county as a whole were installed. They were in Letterkenny where High Road meets Upper Main Street. I was a kid at the time and living just outside Letterkenny. It would have been the mid 80s.

It depends. If it didn't damage the tooth when falling out, they can normally just stick it back on. This has happened to me 3 or 4 times and it takes them 5 minutes to glue it back on. This should be in the 'getting old' thread :-(

I've been listening to the Global Communication record on repeat over the last few days. It still sounds fantastic.

Tim Simenon (aka. Bomb the Bass) runs a restaurant selling meatballs in Prague.

I think you have to do something that you naturally enjoy and doesn't feel like work. I find reading great. I usually start with simple books on the Kindle and use the integrated dictionary function to quickly look up words by just tapping on them. Having a paper book and having to look...

I was also surprised it sold so many copies. It reached position 16 in the German charts and 6 in the Austrian. I'm not sure if that clip is actually the official video.

The embedded player works fine for me in Chrome. I tend to use the Mixcloud app on my phone and just search for the title. The one annoying restriction with both the browser and the app is that the jump backwards function is disabled in the basic version.

Yeah. I've had Aer Lingus do this to me multiple times recently. I think, due to a lack of passengers, they are packing all their flights into one early morning flight. And probably the early morning airport slot is the cheapest.