I'm staying at a hotel called the Park Plaza Riverbank on the Albert Embankment. It's not near the Thames, it is on it. I'm just down the street from the Vauxhall underground station and just west of the Lambeth Bridge. I walk out the front door and have a view across...

As for the women in Dublin, I left wondering where they keep the ugly ones. I can only assume there is a town or village somewhere on the island where they banish those who don’t quite measure up.

You can tell a lot about a city by its airport. Las Vegas has slot machines. Boston sells live lobstahs. Kansas City sells barbecue sauces. Dublin sells whiskey. Cheers!

The flight to Dublin finally left JFK around 11:30pm...a full hour late. We rode in a 767-300 wide-body, an ultra slick aircraft with TVs in the seat backs and all the cutting-edge mod-cons you only find on international flights. I had cashed in some frequent flyer...