Blogs from Limerick, County Limerick, Ireland, Europe - page 9

Advertisement

Europe » Ireland » County Limerick » Limerick July 19th 2008

For my job at Van Oord we had to do some measurements on waterquality near the Limerick tunnel construction. Here are some photos made during this interesting week. On this project the Aegir (cutter suction dredger) was responsible for dredging and deepening in the Shannon River. We only had a short time to participate in this project hopefully in the near future I can work longer a broad. it was intresting to go with a boat in the returnwater basins and measure how the sediment particles sedimentate and clean water could be released in to the river.... read more
Measuring Vessel
Dozer in de avond
The Shanon Shamrock Castle

Europe » Ireland » County Limerick » Limerick May 9th 2008

Left JFK in New York at 10:15 pm (on Thursday) and flew through the night to Shannon Ireland. The airplane was at 100% capacity and we were in the last row. After very little sleep, we landed at 9:30 am local time (4:30 AM EST). Drove 1/2 hour to Limerick and checked into the Patrick Punch's hotel and napped. Drive to downtown Limerick in afternoon, walked around the town and had dinner. Very mild day, no rain and 60 degrees, a perfect day for sight-seeing. We are still recovering from lack of sleep and I am trying to get over a sinus cold. Looking forward to Dingle tomorrow. Not a great day for pictures, as we mostly stayed in town.... read more
Hotel Room
River Shannon
House in Limerick




Tot: 0.058s; Tpl: 0.003s; cc: 7; qc: 24; dbt: 0.0259s; 1; m:domysql w:travelblog (10.17.0.13); sld: 1; ; mem: 1mb