There are other services like this with many having better features but this is part of my Google account and ten to one the data I enter here is aggregated into the overall Google Maps database.
Now if only Google would get some good maps of Ireland. Microsoft’s Local Live has much better maps of Ireland.
Perusing the Oscar nominations list I realised how living in Waterford has pole-axed my cinema habits. Back home in Cape Town I had the choice of 7 or so cinema complexes all of which were good quality. Here in Waterford we have one dingy complex that I have been to two times too many. I saw more films at the cinema during my months holiday to South Africa than I have seen in over a year here in Waterford. Supposedly Dungarvan has a nice cinema but driving 45 minutes for a cinema is crazy.
Waiting for DVD is now my habit.
Of the Oscar list I have seen just 8; The Devil Wears Prada (good), Cars (entertaining), Pan’s Labyrinth (brilliant), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (entertaining), Children of Men (very good), United 93 (good), An Inconvenient Truth (very good) and Superman Returns (disappointing.)
Waterford’s Spraoi festival ended with a bang on Sunday night. A brilliant parade of macabre monsters and a pretty decent set of fireworks. I got a video of the fireworks (I would put it on YouTube but the “clever” system doesn’t like the portrait format of my video and auto-rotates it to landscape format. Which is daft.)
We then headed for the pubs and drank into the early hours.
Spent a fantastic Sunday with Fi at the infamous Croke Park in Dublin. We watched Waterford take on and beat Tipperary in the Hurling Championship quarter-final.
We all had a good night out at Waterford’s local dog track, Kilcohan Park. I have never been to the dogs, or horse racing for that matter, before and it was an interesting experience. 11 races in quick succession with betting on each. I struck out on the first 9 races and then bet right on the last two, recovering some of my loses. Thankfully we were betting a max of 5 euro a time, usually just 2. At the end of the night I was down 17 euro on winnings of 8.
Last night the Shelekabookys played their first mixed-social Irish Tag Rugby Association game down in Waterpark, Waterford against the Sun Life team. We lost (10-0) but had a really good time. We had trained only twice and only two of us on the team had ever played Rugby before.
One thing I learnt was that you have no chance without boots. On wet Irish grass you either go spinning off the field as you go full tilt in runners (takkies for us Saffas) or you end up only going at 50% to avoid slipping. A couple of the lads on the Sun Life team had boots and could dodge and weave around us with ease.
Our next game is this coming week and it should be even better.
