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

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

I am going to lump several days together because 1) I didn't do that much and 2) photography wasn't allowed. June 29th On June 29th I went to the National Museum of Ireland - History and Archaeology. I couldn't take pictures inside but there are several things I saw that were amazing. The first was tons of gold objects that had been recovered from the Hill of Tara and the Hill of Slane (which I visited a week or so before). It was very cool to be in the area and then see the objects that were excavated. They had everything from prehistoric Ireland to Medieval Ireland. I also saw the three bog bodies that have been recovered. YUCK!! These bodies were recovered from bogs in Ireland. The bogs don't have oxygen in them so ... read more

I'm in Dublin Ireland. I'm typing this from The Globetrotters hostel computer. It's slow and theres only one computer but it works. The hostel is pretty nice and I'm staying in a 12 room dorm. We, Dre and I, walked all around the different streets and got some pictures. I have never heard of the spire but it is there on O'Connell street I believe. It is just this huge flagpole lookin' metal spire that sticks up. It's taller than all the buildings and is something to see. We also went to a pub (Can't remember the name, I'll have to go back and find out) and I got a Guinness. The bartender didn't card or anything. I got another one after that. We toured around some more and went to O'Shea's Hotel, Restaurant, and Pub. ... read more

I hope everyone is ok with all the flooding going on. The weather is going crazy everywhere it seems. Dublin is getting heavier and more actual rain than usual. The UK is also getting heavy rain. Southern Europe is having a terrible heat wave. Close to 120 degrees and people dont generally have air conditioning. Love Kirsten... read more