Suzanne Visser

From 1824 to 1923 Cork had a prison at the north side of the river at Sunday’s Well Road. It is now open for the public to experience the prison life.
It was not as spectacular as I expected but still being in a former prison does something with you. It confirms how importance it is to [...]

On Sunday 17 January I went to Bantry. Bantry is a small village on the west coast of Ireland overlooking Bantry Bay. The area is heavily influenced by the Gulf Stream creating a mild climate with heavy rainfall allowing semi-tropical plant growth. With the ocean on one side and mountains on the other side this village [...]

As the snow and the ice melted away and the normal Irish weather (= rain) is back into place my stay is coming to its end. Six more working days at my internship place in University College Cork, 2 more weekends and 1.5 day and I’m flying back to Holland. A mix of positive and negative [...]

While winter stroke hard everywhere in Europe and parts of America, Ireland and Cork also tried to cope with it. Cork experienced its coldest winter in about 60 years. That meant that it was around zero during the day and a few degrees below freezing point in the night for more than a couple of days [...]

After the nice weekend with my parents a few weeks ago it was now my brothers turn to visit me. On Monday 28 December they flew to Dublin to rent a car there. In the mean time I took the train from Cork to Dublin, where they picked me up from Heuston train station. During the [...]