<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Last leg or last legs? There is a real feel of travel weariness pervading the air. Hours of travel seem to have reduced the excited expectations of reaching a new or a final destination to nothing more than silent anticipation. … soon now. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Day 547, Last Leg’ 3.2 … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Changi Airport Singapore is renowned as one one of the worlds busiest transit hubs. Quiet moments like this are however just as common when transits take you through the early hours of the morning. Most shops are closed, and a weird sense of serenity invades the daily mêlée transforming the cosmopolitan … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" My favorite seat when flying is an aisle seat but on the short flight from Cork to Heathrow having a window seat made for great cloud gazing. There is something magical about being above the clouds. With land and sea now out of sight, all sense of being in a plane … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" It seems somehow fitting to leave this beautiful green isle with a final gorgeous sunset. We came here to an Ireland of blue skies and sunshine (the locals reckon we brought the sunshine with us) to get married. We created history and memories which will remain with us, our families and … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Well stocked indeed but there is something obvious missing. Where is the bartender? Where are the guests? There is a simple answer to odd state of affairs. It’s the end of a big night out and we have out drunk all the patrons who have left. The bartender has finished for … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Once upon a time in Blarney there were great woolen mills known as Mahony’s Mills which manufactured woolen products and employed hundreds of locals in all manner of roles. Nearly 150 years from the day it was built the mills ground to a halt due to declining demand and production. 500 … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" In every town we visited or passed through we found a grotto with an effigy of the biblical Mary. While traveling through the town of Charlieville I noticed something different, this single statue in the courtyard of an old church. In it I saw a small child playing and leaning over … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Down the tower steps, on to the plush red carpeted guests landing and finally those grand banistered red stairs down to a kingly Irish breakfast. We have brought back many wonderful memories of Dromoland Castle but by the way this image brought those memories flooding in I’d say red carpeted stairs … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" If this were a Grimm fairy tale I could imagine myself calling up to my beloved Rapunzel to let down her golden hair so that we might be together. But this is not a story book tale. It is my gorgeous bride standing watch for my return from the the old … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Walking through the main doors of the Great Northern Hotel is like stepping back in time. 62 years ago Jennifer’s newly wed parents Gerard and Nuala stepped through these very same doors on their honeymoon. I wonder if they thought the very same thing conjuring up images of the late 1900s. … Read more