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Julia at the Port of Cork

Brian Clayton — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 12:33:30 +0000

river lee hotel reflections

Brian Clayton — Wed, 25 May 2011 15:53:33 +0000

the river was lovely and calm the other morning.

Cork looking lovely in the sunshine

Brian Clayton — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:04:19 +0000

the weather in Cork is fantastic. A couple of camera phone snapshots:

UCC Quad:

St Fin Barres Cathedral:

mostly frozen lough

Brian Clayton — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 09:37:24 +0000

The Lough is thawing, but still mostly frozen over.

big stretch of open water when the sun hits it:

snowy Dublin

Brian Clayton — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:31:41 +0000

I had a short trip to Dublin- arrived yesterday and left today. There was just enough time for a couple of photographs.

The window displays in Brown Thomas look great:

The lights in Dublin look much better than Cork. It pains me to say it but it’s true. Rather wonderfully it started to snow as we walked up Grafton Street looking at the lights.

Stephen’s Green looked brilliant in the snow and ice.

these were all taken with a Nokia N8 cameraphone btw. I’m starting to really like it

montpellier and paris taken with nokia n8

Brian Clayton — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:34:03 +0000

I’m just back from a short trip to Montpellier and Paris. I decided just to bring my new Nokia N8, to see if you really can just take a mobile phone on holidays.

Montpellier is a lovely city, with beautiful architecture and clear signs of a Roman influence.

There are plenty of parks in the city – which leads to wonderful sights like people practising tightrope walking!

If it’s raining, or even if it’s not, the aquarium is well worth a visit.

The fountains must be lovely during the heat of the summer months.

We were fortunate to be there for the start of the Christmas lights.

We spent a day and a half in Paris. We did not climb up Notre Dame!

The Christmas lights were switched in Paris on the night we were there. The whole Champs Elysses is bedecked with lights, and a brillliant Christmas market.

So, realistically can you just use a mobile phone as your camera on a trip?
You tell me! I’ll do another blog post with the quirks and things to watch out for when using your mobile phone as a camera.

waves at the front strand in Youghal

Brian Clayton — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 19:20:06 +0000

there were lovely waves rolling onto the beach this morning:

it didn’t stop the locals getting into the water though!

the world at Cobh

Brian Clayton — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:24:22 +0000

Luxury liner The World visited Cobh today.
The unusual thing about this liner is you can buy a residence on board and live on the ship!

calves week in Schull

Brian Clayton — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:32:31 +0000

I took a couple of days off this week to visit Schull. Good food, wine, company and weather.

The village was jammed for Calves Week.

valentia harbour

Brian Clayton — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:26:05 +0000

I took a road trip to Cahersiveen and the Ring of Kerry yesterday. Beautiful weather and countryside.