I was overcome with a sudden panic; to have come so far only to have to turn around and go back, unable to keep up with the local dialect, a distinct and lilting mixture of my own native tongue and a leprechaun’s mystical chatter.

Thus my nephew Vinnie Byrne, a native of Pining And Pothorst Land, currently making a grand tour of Old Europe. Wisely, he has decided to write a blog about his travels, and very good it is too. I urge you lot to go and read it.