Blogs from Ireland, Europe - page 329

We got all way to the gate and were about 45 minutes before boarding when Robert remembered he forgot his wallet!! Oh my gosh, if only he had remembered earlier since we got to the airport 2 ½ hours before our flight and would have ha plenty of time to go get it. Poor guy - he really felt bad about that but we couldn’t really do anything about it at that point. Luckily we have mom with us and her American express card if we get into a jam. I didn’t bring mine since I knew Robert was going to bring his. Hopefully, my debit card will get us through this vacation. The really bad thing about it is he doesn’t have his drivers license and he really needs to drive us. I don’t want ... read more

Geo: 53.4129, -8.24389Well, we made it to Ireland. I almost lost Stacy on the Express train to the airport. The doors opened to get off. We let the other people get off and then got our luggage. The door closed on Stacy's luggege and we couldn't open it. A woman released the door just long enough for Stacy to get off and then it left with me still on it screaming for someone to open the door. Luckily, it came back to the same station after about 15 mins. Dublin was nice. We spent 3 days there before we left on our driving trip to Kilorglin. I caught a head cold in Dublin and then passed on to Stacy. See, we share everything. We went to the Dingle Penninsula and Killarney National Park. Both were spectacular. ... read more

We got wild in Wicklow. Well, we actually just took a tour bus there, but our tour bus was called Wild in Wicklow, ha. The first picture is a random of me and the girls that I intern with. They're both awesome, Laura from CT and Andrea is from FL. Interning at Geary Institute is now 5,000 times better with them with me. Once we met eachother we went out on the town and that's a picture from that evening! yay. Back to Wicklow...it's a smaller town about an hour south of Dublin--so still on the eastern part of the country. It was extremely beautiful, of course. This county was also where the movie "P.S. I love you" was filmed...so I was secretly looking for Gerry (or a guy that looked like Gerry) to bring back ... read more

Our experience in Dublin was about this quick... 1) Huge needle in the sky, we were told it was the Biggest building in Europe... but actually only in Dublin city center. 2) We saw Anna Freedman, which was awesome, eventhough she was our bartender. 3) Beer at noon. 4) On one hour of sleep and won't sleep til Paris. (about 30 hours from DC to Paris with 1 hour of sleep). 5) No leprecans.... read more

Yesterday I * walked around (mostly because museums and such were closed when I arrived) * for several minutes, chatted with a garbage man who - knew that Helsinki is the capital of Finland, but couldn't remember Stockholm - doesn't think he'd like having a lip ring - should consider opening a tourist information centre * couldn't understand how to get the key card system in hostel to work (locks seriously dislike me!), here's hoping I'll manage today * was really annoyed at one girl in the dorm who didn't whisper when people tried to sleep, and accordingly lost one of my earplugs, and realized my ears are too small for them anyway * took loads of photos of buildings. So pretty! * came across soooo many Finns (all of them probably took the same plane ... read more