Update! In May 2011 I upped sticks once again and moved from Drogheda to Dublin. You can take the girl out of the city but it’s hard to take the city out of the girl! But that’s not the reason why I left small-town Drogheda for Ireland’s capital; I chose to go up to the “Big Smoke” to move in with Mountaineering Man, who I met and fell in love with last year. So here begins a new chapter of my life in Ireland - thanks for joining me on this fantastic adventure!
An American in Ireland is a blog dedicated to my new life in - you guessed it - Ireland! In March 2010, I moved from Los Angeles to Drogheda, a town about 35 miles north of Dublin. Why? I wanted a change. I was growing weary of life in busy LA and was feeling very unfulfilled. I figure there’s no better way to shake things up than to put myself in a completely new environment, far away from everything I know. While visiting friends in Ireland last year, I fell in love with it. I’d been looking for a place to venture off to for a while, and this just felt right.
I am a freelance copywriter and journalist with a slight infatuation with all things food. Though my experience has allowed me to write about everything from celebrity profiles to education issues, what interests me most are food and travel. I’m lucky enough to do it for a living, and luckier still that the Irish government has granted me a business permission to pursue my freelance writing here.
I hope you’ll share in my adventures as I settle into my new life abroad. It’s not always going to be easy; I may be crying myself to sleep on occasion from missing my friends and family. But change always brings challenges, and I’m ready for it. Here’s hoping that I’ll write some good stuff, learn how to make the perfect boxty and brown bread and have the time of my life doing it all. What was that saying about the road less traveled? Well, here I go…
Contact: clare@AnAmericanInIreland.com
Read my previous food blog here.
