Philadelphia – Streetrunner 🇬🇧🏃🏼‍♀️

A Monaghan, in Monaghan’s. ☘️

10th February 2025 Well what can I say about Monaghans pub? (are there enough fun words in the English dictionary to describe this awesome place??) A great local bar in Essington, PA 🇺🇸 Introduced to us by non other than our good Philadelphian friend Joseph Patrick Monaghan. A great Irish pub situated on the borderContinue reading “A Monaghan, in Monaghan’s. ☘️”

Peace Valley Parkrun – Doylestown, PA. 🇺🇸

8th February 2025 Up bright and early for breakfast in preparation for a 30 mile drive from Broomall to Doylestown, PA. It was quite nice going past the covered bridges and seeing some of the fantastic cycling infrastructure they have there (being an Active Travel Officer, by trade) It was a bitter cold day, soContinue reading “Peace Valley Parkrun – Doylestown, PA. 🇺🇸”

Running in Delco

7th February 2025 “In the day we sweat it out on the streetsOf a runaway American dream” – Bruce Springsteen. After an early morning Pep Rally, and a boring ‘dreadmill’ run the previous day, I was eager to get outdoors to do a run on second day of the holiday. I was also keen toContinue reading “Running in Delco”

Eagles Pep Rally

7th February 2025 Woke early to watch the news and was great to see everyone so hyped with all the excitement of the pep rally’s as the city prepared for one of the biggest Super Bowls in history for the Philadelphia Eagles. Little did we know at this point we were going to get onContinue reading “Eagles Pep Rally”

Fairfield Broomall/ Newtown Sq – a hotel that really is home from home.

6th Feb 2025 Of course no trip to Philly would ever be complete without an emotional reunion with JP! This man is the reason we keep returning to the Fairfield Broomall/Newtown Sq, time after time. I’ve never known such a friendly, kind, and conscientious staff member as Joseph Patrick Monaghan, always gives up the warmestContinue reading “Fairfield Broomall/ Newtown Sq – a hotel that really is home from home.”

Dublin – Philly ☘️🇺🇸

5th Feb 2025 So the Eagles were off to the Super Bowl! and I was off to Philly, for our ceremonial ‘watch party’ with my Buddies in Barnaby’s Havertown. This time, flying from Dublin (doing US immigration this end so as to spare us the faff of it all after a long haul flight!) SoContinue reading “Dublin – Philly ☘️🇺🇸”