Blogs from Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland, Europe - page 103

With only 1 and a ½ hours drive to get to Dublin, we certainly didn’t rush around in the morning to get out of Kilkenny. Instead, we headed to the Laundromat to do some much needed washing, and took in the city centre, including some more shops. At about 10am we decided to head to the big smoke, and arrived there in good time. Our B and B had been pre-booked (thank goodness) because we soon realised something BIG was happening in Dublin this weekend - the National Gaelic Games were on - Football and Hurling!! People were flocking into the city in the thousands, wearing their favourite team colours, and what would normally have been a 20 minute trip to the airport, to return our hire car (a Vauxhall Corsa) turned into an hour long ... read more

HOLler NOT MUCH TIME TO WRITE but hello, arriva derci. I read a quote today that made me lauuugh: No matter how great your triumphs or how tragic your defeats, remember taht approximately one billion chinese people couldnt care less. -abraham lazlo Thats very important. I had today off and yesterday. Got my hair cut for waaay too much $$, bought some stuff, went to st stephens park, and pub crawling tonight because i didnt last night. Well, last night i had an independent pub crawl. It involved me and some bulmers, in a pub, but then it ended because i didnt really like the bulmers, and it made me feel ungood, so i had some wonton soup which definitely doesnt qualify as a pub crawl substance. Thought you should know. I move in in exactly ... read more

Geo: 53.3441, -6.26749Before beginning today's entry, we have to make a slight adjustment from yesterday. On the way back from listening to some great traditional Irish music, it rained on us. So, we did have to pull out the umbrellas. ***We decided to start today by splitting up for the first time. Jake and Jeannette headed to the National Library to try and dig up some old potatoes (that would be family history research), while Rich and Barb took a historical walking tour led by a Trinity College history graduate. No luck on the potatoes, but Rich and Barb learned quite a bit. Barb adds that this was a very typical Dust vacation day because there was a lot of history and very little food.We regrouped for tea just as the rain started to fall on ... read more

Tomorrow is the last day of class for Ireland: Study Abroad. Students have an exam in the morning, and we will use the afternoon for any personal siteseeing in Dublin. We fly out on Saturday AM and all head off in different directions. One group of students will go back to country they started out their summer study abroad experiences, either France or England. Another group takes off with me directly from Dublin to Boston. Mike will stay for a few days to work on his dissertation. It's been a great trip, but I sense we all are anticipating with some excitement our return home. The last section of the course covered the events of the past century. This includes the War of Independence, Civil War, The Troubles, and the Celtic Tiger. As part of ... read more

Howdy hi! I'm back in Dublin again after a wonderful weekend away on a Paddywagon Tour seeing some of the green Irish country side. We had a really good time, though we thought it was going to be a disaster as it poured with rain for the entire first day. On Day 1, we went to Phoenix Park (a huge Park on the outskirts of Dublin where there are wild deer roaming around!), a whiskey distillery where there was free tasting (surprisingly, I didn't have to work too hard to find someone to drink mine for me), a Bog (just as appealing as it sounds; a great big mud pool pretty much), a huge monastic setlement called Clonmacnoise, and onto Galway for the night. Galway is in the middle on a Cryptosporidium outbreak in their water ... read more