That pitch doesn’t look playable…

Friska Viljor FC v Östersunds FK (Svenska Cupen) So after doing my...

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Getting back in to a routine

It’s hard to have anything resembling a routine when you are studying...

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A buffet of pizza, Champions League and Bulmers

Yesterday was Wednesday and that means one thing in Umeå – Pizza...

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A year of blogging!

…and what a hellacious year it’s been.  Well no, not really.  As...

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That pitch doesn’t look playable…

Friska Viljor FC v Östersunds FK (Svenska Cupen) So after doing my online training, I set off for my first assignment as a live sports reporter.  I took the train and headed down to Örnsköldsvik, a city about 100km south of Umeå.  Luckily there is...

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A year of blogging!

…and what a hellacious year it’s been.  Well no, not really.  As you may have noticed there has been a theme to my blog over the last year.  Write a post saying how excited I am to be blogging, then don’t write another one for...

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Absolutely deadly…. at blogging

I have spare time, quite a lot of it lately actually but I never find the time to write this blog.  Maybe because it just feels like i’m talking to myself.  But at the request of a five year old girl trapped inside a rather...

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Getting back in to a routine

It’s hard to have anything resembling a routine when you are studying abroad.   I’ve found myself in the last week slipping into the trap, that if I didn’t have an appointment in the morning, I simply wouldn’t get up.  The final straw was on...

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Back to the Blogging

After a woeful first attempt, I’m going to give the blogging another attempt.  One of the main reasons I set up the blog was so that I could track a new adventure that I am about to embark on… and that is me establishing a...

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I think my friend has worms…

What does your average trip to McDonalds involve?  Perhaps a Big Mac, fries and drink, or maybe 7 cheeseburgers, a McChicken Sandwich, Fries and a drink “without bubbles”.  Let me introduce you to Tiphaine.  So just in case you didn’t get that, that’s 7 Cheesburgers, 1 McChicken...

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A buffet of pizza, Champions League and Bulmers

Yesterday was Wednesday and that means one thing in Umeå – Pizza buffet.  The place we go normally sells a slice for 50sek (€5) but on Wednesday they decide that a better strategy would be to charge 60sek (€6) for an unlimited amount of slices....

I’m Irish and I’m not meant to have a blog

I’m sure there are many Irish people that have blogs, but there is just something very un-Irish about them.  I know the mere fact that I have started this blog will have many of my Irish friends feeling embarrassed for me, and on some level...