Technology, church music, bicycles, and life in Ireland
I complete packing for our camino trip this morning. We’re doing the last 110km of the Camino Frances (or French way) from Sarria to Santiago de Compostela. I think I’ve got everything I need, but if I don’t then I’m sure I’ll cope. After all there are shops in Spain, so I can buy anything […]
It’s just over 3 weeks until we head off to Spain to walk the last 115km of the ‘French Way’ of the Camino. As the date approaches fast, I’m getting a bit worried about my physical ability to do this walking. We’re not planning on pushing it too hard on the walk, but we are […]
Ever since I watched the Martin Sheen movie ‘The Way‘, about a man who walks the Camino (or The Way of St James) to Santiago de Compostela, I’ve been intrigued by the idea of walking it myself. I’m not driven by some deep religious longing to go on a devotional pilgrimage, but rather I’m drawn […]
With online booking comparison sites (I like to use CarTrawler) and increased competition in the car hire market, there are some great bargains to be had. But when you turn up to hire the car, you can often be stung for some very expensive extras. Earlier this month, we hired a ‘compact’ car in Salerno from […]
Yesterday was the end of term, and the cathedral choir are now on summer holiday for the next 8 weeks. Not that it feels like summer. It’s been throwing it down with rain for weeks on end, and it’s also unseasonably cold and windy. And there appears to be little sign of an improvement in […]
It may be interesting for some people not involved in cathedral music to learn that choirs normally operate around academic terms. The involvement of children as boy and girl trebles, and also of young adults as choral scholars, means that choirs very often have to work in sync with schools and universities. The autumn (Michaelmas) […]
