What is up, our first two days in Dublin have been pretty busy to say the least. After having arrived in Dublin, we quickly came to find that Dublin does not label their streets or bus stops like the rest of the civilized world making what should have been a relatively straight-forward bus ride into a logistical nightmare! Finding that we were two hours early for check in, EJ and I decided to acquaint ourselves with the city in true Dubliner fashion...needless to say, this primarily involved familiarizing ourselves with the local pubs around the Temple Bar area (a five minute [View Full Entry]

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I really cannot believe that it has been 19 days since my last post!!!! We have had such a crazy time, packing so much in! Well you will be glad to know that I resisited the temptation to bone that chich on the Friday, (and uncharacteristically deleted her number from my phone)....impressed Smyth? We then hit the road on the Saturday morning and haven't looked back since. We headed west from Crosshaven, past Cork Airport where the visit began and on to a cool surfing beach called "castlefreke". We surfed there for 5 hours, caught some crazy lefts. [url=http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&defl=en&q=define:adrenaline&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title] Adrenaline pumping, [View Full Entry]

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Hi All, This is my very first entry! Well its just a few short days before I jet off to start the adventure of a life-time, just got my shots done today and collected my foreign currency so the whole thing is starting to become real! As most of you know I've always had a great interest in travel and have been lucky enough to live in Spain, Greece and Boston for a few months each. But this trip is a once in a lifetime experience and I intend to make the most of it! Hopefully I will have some interesting [View Full Entry]

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Our flights were on time and fairly comfortable. I slept for about 4 hours and Mark slept for about 2--miracle, that, as he usually does no more than nod a time or two on a plane. We arrived at about 9 a.m. The weather was cool and showery, kind of what we had read in the forecast. Our bags were 3 of the last off the plane but we had them in hand and were in the cab to the hotel by 10:15. The cabbie was very friendly and asked us lots of questions about what we would be doing while [View Full Entry]

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well pretty much as the title says and not lol!! Well myself and Mr M have decided after much discussion over the past seven years that we'll just go for it so the saving in earnest begins and we are now looking at the atlas picking out places we want to go to and watching every show on the travel channel to get ideas. I've always wanted to travel from as far back as I can remember. My parents took us all over Europe when our friends in school were getting their two weeks in Spain and we had the best [View Full Entry]

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June 17th : I left Prescott, Arizona to travel to Ireland. There seemed to be so many sections to the travel: by car to the shuttle, by shuttle to the airport in Phoenix, a flight to Philly to meet Denise, and then an flight to Shannon. We would then pick up our rental car and drive to Bunratty. And, amazingly, it went just like that! Denise was waiting for me in Philly, having flown from Detroit. The flight to Shannon was long, and the movie was really stupid. We arrived in the morning on the 18th. June 18th: began without any [View Full Entry]

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Today was the first day of classes and the past four days have been a great deal of fun and great to settle in and get to know the City of Galway better. So far I am liking Galway a great deal more than Dublin, it has the hustle and bustle of a city with plenty of stone covered streets to walk on with many shops and pubs to check out. Yesterday a couple of girls in the program and I headed down to the coast, north of Claddagh and though I saw many little kids and families swimming (it was [View Full Entry]

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Alrighty then, here we go with another series of adventurous postings from the travels of Steve Knier. I would love to do a super lengthy one for the opener to really start things off right, but the internet cafe i'm currently in charges a euro per 15 minutes and for the folks that aren't very aware nor fluent in exchange rates, that a little under 2 bucks for 15 minutes which is bs. So far, the trip has been amazing, we've been very efficient and have done a fabulous job of conserving money while doing sweet things (this includes sneaking into [View Full Entry]

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Hi all, Well, it's finally come around and gone - our last weekend in Dublin. Hectic, crazy, drinking, cleaning, organising, dancing, cuddling babies - it's had it all really. We've been here for five months now and it's been great, but it's time to move on and see some sunshine (without the rain and howling wind that's been quite common here during June - boo!) We both had fun with our work mates on Friday then with Lindy Foat, Steffi and Cecile (housemate) on Saturday, then it was out to see the little cutie, Ava Niamh Curran (and Belinda, John and [View Full Entry]

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So here's our blog of the fun we had on our last weekend. Dave got a little bit out of hand - nice white chest buddy! Enjoy! [View Full Entry]

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