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The thoughts of Daragh Mc Grath

Browsing Posts published in July, 2003

Oh my gawd….look at this picture, isn’t it just soooh cute!!

I was talking to Cella last night, and we decided that we’d definately stay in Manhattan for 3 nights, the Saturday I arrive, the Sunday, and the following Wednesday before I fly to Chicago on Thursday, so I’ve just booked the Hotel Pennsylvania for those night’s. Cella says I really should head down to Montauk [...]

Tis a hot sunny day in New York today, 26 degrees, 70% humidity and sunny, can’t wait to get there. Just grabbed the below image of Times Square from earthcam.

I’m not often swayed by advertising (at least, not knowingly anyways), but I’ve just been around the shop, and in the fridge I saw one of the new Snow Fruit Crumble yougharts that Ryan Tubridy has been talking about all week. Snow were sponsoring the competition on the Full Irish and I decided that I [...]

Quotes

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Ok, I’ve decided to add a quotes section to the blog. I’ve missed out on a loadc of classic’s of late, that I really should have blogged, but I’m only going to start it from now going forward. No-one is going to be safe, friends, customers, hell, I’ll even quote myself if I come out [...]

I found a great hotel in New York, The Hotel Pennsylvania is central (a few inutes walk from Macy’s and Times Square) and cheap. One of the girls here in work has stayed there, and says that it’s clean and comfy, albeit a wee bit basic, but given all as I’m going to be using [...]

I just realised last night (it kinda hit me in one of those ‘Oh Shit’ moments) that I’ve got less than 3 weeks to go till I head to America, and I need to get organising hotels and travel from New York to Chicago. I also need to organise my 21st before I go away, [...]

I see in today’s Irish Times that Aer Lingus have announced new routes to Toulouse and Tenerife which sould help out with the travel plans over the next while. From:ireland.com Tuesday, 22nd July, 2003 Aer Lingus has announced two new routes to Toulouse and Tenerife. The new routes which will begin on October 26th are [...]

New Machine

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Woohoo, I finally got my new machine in work, a lovely shiney new black Dell machine, running Windows 2000. Ok, ok, not Linux, but it’s still a huge improvement over Windows 95. Gonna go and get it all set up the way I want now, but to say I’m a happy chappy today would be [...]

I’m sure I’ve blogged this before, but worldsbestbars.com really is an excellent source of information no matter what city your travelling to. Such a pity I didn’t read it before I went to Belfast yesterday…lol