Blogs from Galway, County Galway, Ireland, Europe

Thursday May 24 Back to Galway - Today I went back to Galway again. The weather was perfect and even warmed up so much I had to take off my coat and shirt and wore my black T-shirt. I finished up visiting the exhibits at the Galway City Museum and walked up to Salmon Weir and back then back to Eyre Square to relax a bit. Another nice day.... read more

Today we began the morning off early and headed toward Dartfield for a day full of riding as well as being entertained by our wonderful bus driver Paul. We arrived to Dartfield around 9:30-10:00am and we were spilt into two groups for a bit of riding. The first group headed off while the other spent their time walking through the Dartfield museum waiting their turn to brag about riding in the beautiful fields of Ireland. I myself was in the second group and we were all very excited to saddle up and get out and do what we all love so much. For some of us this was the very first time riding period, some it was their first time riding in an English saddle while others had many years and experience in riding. We began ... read more

Surreal is the best word I can think of to describe the past three days on the Dingle Peninsula in a beautiful home on the coast that cost one fifth of something comparable in Seaside Park. Just saying.... "Sheep to the left of us, ocean to the right, here we are, stuck in the middle with ... No one" Even the dogs are nice. Out walking, we picked up an escort (think black Lassie type) who led us down toward the mussel (not muscle) beach when we were heading in the wrong direction toward the main road. Claire put her Cesar Millan dog whisperer skills to use when a pack of Dog bullies started a rumble on the beach with our pooch. Also got stuck behind a herd of cows on the way to be milked ... read more

Ireland day 3 Leamena castle (spelt leamach), the home of the dreaded Moira Rooah. Perhaps the person responsible for making Irish people supersticious about red haired people. She was a red haired woman who's husband died and she went into the local pub in town to get a new husband, took himuostairs to see the view from her castle and he had an unfortnate (or fortunate) accident within a week of being married and fell out the window to his death on the rocks below. Not dettered, Moira headed back into town for another husband, this one accidently slit his own throat while shaving....pattern developing? Perhaps a series of unfortunate events even? Haha Anyway Moira went through 20, yes 20 husbands in her time, not to mention the staff she had working for her which she ... read more

I'm sorry that I havent written about this earlier! I have been so busy with school work and time is just flying by! Last Wednesday (March 14) I went to Ireland. I left pretty late at night, so we didnt get to our hotel until about 11:30. It was actually kind of funny, because when we got to the airport and asked when the next bus to Galway is they said that it was at 8:00 the next morning. We slightly paniced, but because we had five people it cost just as much to take a cab. The next morning we got up very early and went into town. We were lucky because the tour company brought a bus to our hotel to pick us up for free! we made friends with the bus driver on ... read more

This is going to be a little bit different than what I’ve done in the past. On my gap year I did a play-by-play of pretty much everything that I did. This time all my writing will be shorter, and hopefully more interesting since I will just be focusing on the main events. I am studying in Switzerland for the spring with SIT, the School for International Training. The program is Multilateral Diplomacy and Social Justice and focuses on diplomacy, economics, political integration (EU), and many other topics that I’m still waiting to find out… :) We will have speakers every day that are professionals from different organizations so it will not be as cohesive a course as what I’m used to at Puget Sound, but more like a series of lectures and discussions. We have ... read more

Welcome to Galway! This only took 13 days to get up and running! Here is a lovely summary of the past 13 days. On Wednesday, January 4th, 2012, we arrived into Shannon Airport. Everyone was exhausted getting off the plane and once we went through immigration, we were greeted by our lovely Resident Director, Finn Geraghty! Most of us assumed that all flights had arrived, and that we would soon be on our way to Galway. Finn informed us, however, that we would be leaving around 11:30. It was only about 7 when she told us this. So we spent about 4 hours getting to know each other and of course trying to catch a small nap. Soon we were on the bus and on our way to Galway. We arrived at Gort na Coiribe in ... read more

Ni bilo prevroče, sploh ni bilo prevroče, sijalo je sonce in tudi dež je ogrozil moje kodre le na dan mojega odhoda. In na lepo sredo, ko je sonce nemoteno grelo kar celo, uro sem že slišala komentar it's too hot! Ne ni bilo 30 stopinj, moji prstki so čutili nelagodje in zmanjšano gibljivost na tistih 15 stopinj. Irci so za severni narod zelo zelo ležerni in ne vem, ali se to učijo od sončnih držav ali pa sem jim preprosto ne da. Galway je znan kot najbolj prijazno mesto na Irskem, mogoče zaradi študentov ali pa kar zaradi irskega karakterja. Ni hitenja, barska kultura zelo živahna, staro in mlado ob pivu Guinness, avtobusi zamujajo, vsi lepo pozdravljajo, nobene panike. V centru Galwaya na vsakem vogalu kakšna glasbena skupina, ulice ves čas polne, tako da mi ... read more