I have just spent seven wonderful blissfully lazy days at Kellys Resort Hotel in Rosslare. It may only be 90 miles from Dublin and may not have the cachet of exotic locales such as Bondi Beach, Phuket or Miami Beach, but for me it was just heaven. Nothing to do, and all day to do it. Lovely food. Lovely weather. Marred only by the fact that I had to take some work with me. But fortunately, not too much.
I spent the time profitably catching up on my reading, managing to get through The Zenith Angleby Bruce Sterling, Blind Lake by Robert Charles Wilson and Market Forces by Richard Morgan. Ironically, I finished reading Market Forces just as the Mark Thatcher news broke. Market Forces is set in a future Britain where investment banks invest in armed conflicts around the world. They try and guess who's going to win and compete with other investment houses for the right to finance and arm the side they have chosen. In return, they get a slice of the country's GDP (provided their guy wins of course).
I also got through most of The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.
The high point of the week, however, came on Thursday as I walked through the hotel lobby. I caught a glimpse of one of the other residents reading my article in the Irish Independent's E-Thursday section on a company called Micksgarage.com.
Anyway, it's back to work time now.
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