A few of my favourite things:

• Bruce Springsteen's live albums Live in Dublin and Western Stars—Songs from the Film

• My Letterboxd top four: Life is Beautiful, Monsieur Lazhar, The Death of Stalin, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

• New Haven favourites: Ricky D's Rib Shack, Sandra's Next Generation, Icaru Peruvian Restaurant

• The monastery and puffins of Skellig Michael off the scenic Ring of Kerry

• If you call the tourism office in Mons, Belgium, you can go see the neolithic flint mines at Spiennes