Suzanne Visser

My first Christmas without family I spend in Cork. Ireland, and Cork, prepared already for a long time for this feast. Just the day after Halloween, so from 1 November, all shops were decorated with all sorts of Christmas decoration and also the streets were one by one transformed with lights and Christmas trees. Santa officially [...]

I am working now just over three months at the Centre for Research into Atmospheric Chemistry at University College Cork in Cork. It seems ages since I first arrived here in an unfamiliar city in an unfamiliar country. But now after living in Cork for almost four months everything is familiar. I know my way in [...]

From 4 till 7 December my parents visited me in Cork. They stayed in a bed and breakfast only ten minutes walk from my house. On Friday late in the morning they arrived and were welcomed with a high tea. In the meantime they notified me of their arrival and so I finally met them again [...]

Is it Ireland, is it coincidence; it is just very annoying…

Four weeks ago I was diagnosed with swine flu and had to take Tamiflu. After a couple of days I also got a bacterial infection which kept me home for one and a half weeks (after already missing the first week of my internship due to [...]

In my house here in Cork there is a changing of the guard going on. Last Sunday one of the Spanish girls left as she started as au pair in Kinsale on Monday. The other Spanish girl left today to Spain. She has no job yet but hopes to return to Ireland in January, but she [...]

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Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
Overnight Temperature: -2°C
A mix of cloudy and clear skies. Windy.
Morning Temperature: -0°C
Sunny with cloudy periods. Windy.
Afternoon Temperature: 3°C
Sunny with cloudy periods. Windy at times.
Evening Temperature: -2°C
Clear with cloudy periods. Windy at times.

How cold is -0 degrees Celsius? Or is this the Irish way of stating that it will [...]