Well I didn’t get very far with the “political” post, so I’ll save it for another time. My constant travel continues, and I’m taking a short pit-stop in Manchester, before heading for the Netherlands for a week, and then crossing Central Europe and the Balkans to get to Greece.

I was in Dublin for the first Inter-Isles Young Greens get-together, which was great fun. We managed to achieve the perfect balance between socialising and serious stuff. Highlights included going on my first Pride march, and developing a taste for Guinness. The next event is in Edinburgh, later in the year, so I’m looking forward to that.

While I was in Ireland, I managed to squeeze in a trip over to Co. Galway to visit family. Rural west of Ireland is quite a contrast to Dublin, shown most clearly in the difference between a pub in Cong with DJ Eamo (bored looking man in the corner with a laptop plugged into the speakers), and pretty much any pub we went to in the capital.

Anyway, ’twas all fun, as, hopefully, the rest of Europe will be.

Once again, i’ve gone far too long without posting anything here. I’m in a strange period of lots of travelling at the moment. This weekend there’s a family party, which should be fun, and next week I’m off to Dublin for a young greens event. So I’m finding myself on trains rather a lot. Considering my summer holiday is going to consist of taking the train to Bosnia, it is a feeling I should get used to.

Anyway, I’m partly writing this to try out a new version of the software that runs my blog, and partly to fill in the gap before I put up my next post, which I’m thinking will be a “political” thing.