This summer, there is no place like home

WITH the recession worsening, holidaying abroad is a memory.

Holidaying at home is strange to me. I’m used to jetting off to Portugal, Lourdes, Sweden, Italy, Spain, and so West Cork or Killarney or Dublin are no-nos.

A holiday is a sunny country, on the beach, relaxing, forgetting your worries for a week. I can’t do that in Ireland, where I could be found by family if there was ever a problem.