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Oh…Porto!

Looking across to Gaia (the focus of the port wine industry in Porto) it’s truly odd to be standing in the heat of a Portuguese city seeing enormous rooftop hoardings with a number of quintessentially English surnames such as Taylors, Cockburn and Graham peppered across the length of the river bank.  Though, I’m not a big fan of encountering my fellow countryman [sic] abroad, on this occasion in…

Repeat Offender

Apart from visits to Amsterdam and Cork to catch up with the friends I made on previous trips, I rarely return to a destination I have travelled to before.  So, heading back to Copenhagen, the Danish capital ten months after first visiting was something out of the ordinary for me.  My first visit, in the autumn, was brilliant!  I fell in love with the city’s sights, the food…

Life…but not as we know it!

I was mesmerised the first time I saw it.  This was something that ‘spoke’ to me.  The main protagonist felt the way I did and still do!  I watched it again and again!  And, this moment of revelation?  Just a spoof music video by the Swedish house DJ behemoth, Avicii (and Nicky Romero)!  The song, ‘I Could Be The One’ is brilliant and one of many successive hits…