Ireland was just as amazing as I've always believed it was...! Just everything about it, weird enough i felt like home... So i do hope that I'll be able to study there... Or work in/run a pub there, that would be the dream...
But yeah, we did have a few problems before we came to Ireland, when we came to Copenhagen, all of a sudden we had to take a plane to Frankfurt and then Dublin, so we lost 6 hours there... But at least we weren't travelling with children, felt really sorry for 3 of our fellow passengers, but the kid was great, didn't hear her cry once...But yeah when we arrived at Dublin airport we got some more bad news...our backpacks were still in Copenhagen...a bit bummed...but there was nothing we could do about it anyway, so we filled out the form, and since it was so late we took a taxi to the hostel...
The next day we walked around Dublin, got to see Dublin Castle, Trinity College, and the Book of Kells..and being us of course we did some shopping.. :S bought a few books and gift for the family..:P When we got back to the hostel we waited one hour or so, then we got our luggage, and we were soo happy..:P Freshened up a bit, then we went to Temple Bar to see the match...:P It was the UEFA the week we were there, so we had to watch..:P Even got to use my polish! yay:P hehe started talking with a polish guy, he was working for Ryan Air... after the match we got some live music, was really great..knew two of the songs..:P "Fields of Athenry" and "Whiskey in the Jar" but it was good fun! Or great craic! :P
The next day we went to see The Chester Beatty library, that was neat! Later that day we were going to Cork, it started pouring down so we took a bus to the bus station:P didn't quite figure it out at first, but a sweet old lady helped us out..:P We were actually the first norwegians she met:P her parents were irish, but they lived in Boston until they were 6, then they moved back to Ireland... We got to the station and took the next bus to Cork, we didn't have a hostel here, but trusted our "bible" the lonely planet..:P and ended up at a fairly nice hostel, but the rooms almost felt like a prison cell, it was 8 beds, and just enough room for two people passing eachother sideways... Really felt sorry for Alexander then, and knowing that it's even worse where he is... Since we just had 8 days in all we only stayed 2 nights in Cork, and the next say we took a sightseeing tour, first a city tour, then they drove out to Blarney Castle. Here we kissed the Blarney stone and achieved the gift of the gab..:P And of course with our luck, we came there at the same time as a bunch of americans that were on a cruise, so the line up the castle was much longer than it usually was...ah well, been through worse..:P (Eiffel Tower) when we came back to Cork we went to the pub to watch the match..:P And JB started making a plane out of paper...:P After awhile Humphrey and Eamonn came over, turned out that they had done exactly the same thing, so we had to test them...turned out JB was the expert! :P Both of them were from Kerry, but were studying agriculture in Cork. Sat there talking until the pub closed, surprisingly enough very early, but it was good fun :) even got to practice on my Gaelic..:P Conas ata tu? :P
The next day it was time to move on...Our next stop was Galway, we didn't have time to plan anything before we travelled, but Consi was nice enough to help us out with places to see ++ :)
and Galway was amazing! Might be the sun made it even better, but the first impression was very good, and it stayed that way..:P only thing was, we didn't have a hostel...and that turned out to be a problem, went to one hostel first, but they didn't have anything available, but they called another hostel for us, and they had two beds that night, but nothing after that...so we checked in for one night, and then went hostel hunting...:P was turned down 2-3 places before we found one, but then it was all good..:P walked around the town a bit after that, JB found a toy shop she just didn't wanna leave..;) and later we found a pub and got to see live music and the match...life was good..:P hehe
The next day we were ready for yet another sightseeing tour..:P yeah i know, but we wanted to see a bit..:P The driver was great, funny and knew a lot..we drove over The Burren, got to see Dunguire Castle, Cliffs of Moher, Poulnabrone Dolmen, Aillwe Cave ++ was great! The weather wasn't that great, but at least it wasn't foggy when we were at the cliffs, so then it's all good...:P
When we got back to Galway , it started pouring down, but ah well, we found a pub, and tried to watch the match, but this time it wasn't that easy, turned out to be stag/hen night, and at first they didn't believe that we were there to watch the game...convinced them later though:P After the match we started talking with some and had a fun night, even learned some sort of dance:P But we left rather early 'cause we were going back to Dublin early next morning...
Back in Dublin we just walked around, watched some street bands, one of them "Slainte" was really great! :) We were also back at Kinlay Hostel, this time we slept in a 26 dorm, but we were upgraded, to make a long story short, JB is a light sleeper, and she woke up, and thought she heard water pouring... but it was a guy urinating in the corner...she kept him awake (he must have been drugged or something) and i went down and told the receptionist, they came up and helped us out... Darn the strangest things happens at hostels, but it's weird though, we travelled around in South America for 2 months and nothing weird happened, but one week in Ireland... well enough said..:p hehe must be something in the air.. ;)
Well after 8 days it was time to go home....I really didn't want to, but there's one thing for sure, i'm definitely going back!!! at least once before Nicaragua, and hopefully study there...time will tell i guess... :) at least i got the dream...
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