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Larnach Castle

Posted by Jason Hussong on Wednesday, September 9, 2009,
Businessman William Larnach had his castle built high on the hills of the Otago Peninsula on the South Island of New Zealand between 1871 and 1885 as a residence for his family. To build the large manor home workers had to pull and haul stone up from the bottom of the hill, which is no small feat considering you could be breathless just from walking up it empty handed.

I arrived late at the Otago Peninsula Motel to check in and was dead tired from my drive down to Dunedin from Christchur...

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Ireland ~ 2003

Posted by Jason Hussong on Tuesday, August 18, 2009,
On my third trip across the pond I visited the emerald island of Ireland with my friends Brian and Erin Frederick.
We planned about a week to see some highlights in the country, and that's pretty much what we did as we drove most of the perimeter of the island.

My story comes from one of the last of the places we really stopped to visit, which was Cork, in the southern part of the country.

Cork is a good sized town that's most often visited for Blarney Castle to the north a...

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