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Published: January 7th 2010
First of all, this is not the way I wanted this blog to come out. I wanted the pictures mixed in the text. Anyway, too long to fix. Next time...
Some part of this blog will be in english for my english speaking friends ... et le reste va etre en francais pour ceux qui parlent les deux langues de toutes facons.
Note : Ma famille et quelques collegues de travail vont visiter ce site. Il n'est donc pas necessaire de faire allusion a mon passe heroinomane-pedophile-mangeur de femmes.
Some familly members and work colleagues will be visiting this site, so there's no need commenting about my Law degree at Harvard and my Engineering one at MIT performed in the same time, or my Peace Nobel Prize and any other similarities.
So this is how it goes ...
After years of planning and hard work, and after convincing my mom and grandmother that I wouldn't get kidnapped during my trip, everything was lined up for me to finally do it ... J'ai eu peu de temps avant de partir pour finaliser mes preparatifs (je devrais encore recevoir des trucs commander par ebay dans les prochains
jours ... chez nous a Montreal) mais j'ai eu le temps de passer quelques bonnes soirees de qualite et memorables avec mon monde ... dont certains que je n'avais pas vu depuis longtemps ... (voire photos qui devaient se trouver ici).
After renting my condo, selling my car, dealing my 9 months vacation with the boss, getting my vaccins (sp?), insurances and visas, I was gone (picture with the bag and the door).
Transit by New York was about the 100th time I landed here in the past 3 years and finally convinced me that I was doing the right thing...
Dublin is a big cosmopolitan city where you have Burger Kings every 10 meters. You hear every language in the street and there's tons of shopping centers. It reminded me Sainte-Catherine Street between Crescent and University ... my favorite hang out place in Montreal. But in the same time, there's also pubs every 10 meters. And great pubs they are ... Leurs vieux styles victoriens et leurs ambiances chaleureuses te donnent toujours envie de boire une derniere pinte de Guiness avant de te coucher. (photo d'un pub tres accueillant)
But there's other things than drinking places in Dublin. With their rich history, you still can find some interesting places even if Dublin is the most americanized european city I've seen so far (calm down Jon!) (pictures of St-Patrick Cathedral, Anglo-Norman Church and Dublin Walls).
Aujourd'hui je suis arrive a Kilkenny. Tout le contraire de Dublin. J'adore ces villages (population 9000) ou il y a autant d'attraits que dans les grosses villes.
My trip really kicked in today as people here speak with a real stronger accent than in Dublin. Also eventough it is a little touristy here, I am the only tourist!! And this is because of the "Big Chill". It's their worst winter since the 60's and it's so funny to see them go. Le pays est comme en crise, c'est pas des jokes. Il manque de bouffe dans les epiceries et le transport est perturbe. Ils enlevent le demi-centimetre de glace/neige avec des pelles pour la terre et le peu de commercants sachant que le sel fait fondre la glace lancent du sel de table sur le trottoir devant leurs commerces.
C'est ca qui est ca. Je dois encore m'habituer a la conduite a gauche
et regarder du bon cote de la rue lorsque je traverse, sinon il y a toujours moyen de s'adapter (photo)
Next blogs will be shorter
With love,
Nikolas PS : Merci a tous ceux qui m'ont envoyer des mots d'encouragements avant de partir, que ce soit par message, en personne ou par email.
It's always nice to know that there's some people somewhere in the world that loves you ... sniff!
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Dude! j'suis jaloux de ta possibilité d'assouvir ta nerdité... c'est cool tes comments, enjoy le trip!