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Published: March 9th 2005
Amazing...
Looking out at the blue sky, dark water, and green cliffs at Moher. Didn't want to leave... ever.As promised, it's the fantastic Ireland Trip Report!
I was nervous about this whole thing, jumping on a plane to a random contry you know not a soul in, hoping you've got a place to sleep, enough money in budget, and luck will bump you into some friendly faces. But wow- Now that I've done it, I can't wait to go everywhere else. One of the biggest eye openers for me was that there is a whole travel culture, people who just hop from place to place learning and exploring and making friends, for years at a time. I met people my age who have already been through most of asia, india, and europe. It's not as hard or scary as it looks to be, and you don't have to be rich or wait till you retire.
So... March 1st, I arrive in dublin, find my hostel, get settled and explore the city through thursday. I spend most of my time with a pair of girls from australia, who are on "working holiday." An unknown concept in the U.S, but common everywhere else, young folks pick up a special visa and live/work in diffrent parts of the world for a year
Hello Dublin
The busy, bright city. Double-decker busses rule the streets, while snack shops and wooden pubs fight for sidewalk space. or two. Short-term jobs are easy to find in the big cities, due to the tourist trade. Dublin is much smaller than Paris, and completley walkable. It has a river running through it (as it seems all cool cities do...) and is full of history and color. Also, there's pubs. I learned so much about the country's difficult past from the locals. Many say they can't remember a single happy day growing up. But now, for the first time in centuries, things are getting better. There are plenty of jobs, and reason to be happy. It lifted my spirits to be able to smile in the streets again, without getting a strange looks.
I had covered most of dublin in two days, so it was time to get out and see some countryside. I found a good deal on a backpacker's bus tour, and left Friday morning. So glad I did this. Dublin is a little easier to handle than Paris mostly due to language, but it is still a big, busy, fast-paced city. I'll let the pictures do the rest of the talking from here... enjoy!
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Wonderful
...awesome...breathtaking. You will probably never want to come back home...ever! - Dad