Blogs from County Galway, Ireland, Europe - page 43

This was the first unscheduled Saturday we have spent in Galway since we arrived on January 3rd, so three of us API girls headed down to the market in the city center. This market pops up every Saturday, and is an excellent display of the city’s constant energy. I don’t think I have ever walked around when the streets weren’t reasonably crowded (including random times like Wednesday afternoons), but the market was especially packed with both locals and other tourists. (I think I need another term - tourist seems to have expired now that I’ve been here a month, but I haven’t come up with anything better. Oh well.) Anyway, there were stands with jewelry, hats, scarves, and other such accessories - for those who know me, you’ll be glad to know I resisted . . ... read more

Finn, our director lady, arranged for a tour bus to come and pick us all up from Dunaras and take us on a trip throughout the Burren and to the Cliffs of Mohr. The Burren was absolutly beautiful. It was however raining(of course) for the majority of our trip, so I wasn't able to see everything to the full extent. Along the way, we stoped off at this cave, and a few of us decided that if you have seen one cave you have pretty much seen them all(plus we really didn't want to pay the like 6 euro to get in), so instead we went on a hike and attempted to climb the burren hill that was right behind us. We made it fairly far up, but never seemed to make it to the top. ... read more

We had to go in and get timetables for all of the classes we want to take. It is a very complicated and frustrating system that I don't really want to explain because for one I don't understand anything that is going on, and for two it upsets me. Well, later in the day we went on a tour of the campus which was nice. Hopefully now I can actually figure out where I am going. There is this building called the Quad which is so cute and old. The rest of the campus is pretty nice as well. Later that night, a bunch of us went to this Pub called Monroes. I have to say that it is probably going to be one of my favorites. It is small and has a big fireplace. A ... read more

We left the hotel early in the morning on a bus to Galway. There are something like 26 kids in the API group. Multiply this by two and you get the amount of luggage we had to squeeze onto the bus in addition to all of the kids. Lets just say it took a while. The bus ride didn't seem that long even though it was apparently like 2 1/2 hours. We got to Dunaras which is where we are all going to be staying this semester. They handed out our room keys, unloaded our luggage and we were off. Unfourtanetly for me, I live on the second floor and had quite a fun time carrying my luggage up the stairs. Also unfourtanetly for me, my key to the apartment didn't work. Caitlin(my new roommate) got ... read more

Day 2 - Galway & Aran Islands Europe » Ireland » Galway By clarkeyOctober 29th 2006Brian ClarkeToday was a much better day! In fact, it was the best day of the entire trip.... read more