Thursday, February 19, 2015
I am completely crazy...
Here is my lovely explanation for why I haven't been posting for around two weeks, besides being generally lazy. I got back from Cork late on a Sunday night and left for Portugal long before dawn on Thursday. I had to get myself prepped to miss school until Tuesday afternoon. I was mostly buried under books or or in class or asleep; I am here to study after all. There you have it folks. Now I'm going to write up each day of Portugal trip individually because there is a lot to tell. My dry spell of posting should conclude with about 7 new posts in the next couple days. Tons of pictures should be coming along as well!
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Cork
So I'm one lazy blogger and I've haven't written anything for a while. Here is what I did on the weekend of the 6th. I promise I have decent reason for not updating. I took the train down to Cork and stayed for the weekend. It was a lot of fun and I proved to myself that I can travel by myself. Cork is the other city in Ireland that has a program with CU. I'm glad I chose Dublin. Cork is a lovely city but it has a very sleepy feeling. I love the energy of Dublin and the feel of it. Cork is a walking city. I mean I walked everywhere, even got a couple blisters.
The center of the city has several streets that are pedsitiran or at least very low traffic. They were a great place to wander and see the life of Cork. In this area was the English Market, which was an giant indoor market place. There were stalls selling everything from fish to baked goods. It reminded me of the market in Rome. The similarity to Rome continued in the amount of churches scattered about. They were everywhere and, although they weren't as ornate as you would see in Rome, they were beautiful. I also stopped at the Crawford Art Gallery and spent a couple hours wandering through halls of Irish art. My favorite exhibit was a set of drawings that were the schematics for stained glass windows. I saw the cathedral and the city jail. I spent a ton of time wandering around the city just looking at street art and architecture. I even went an saw a movie. I spent Saturday night in the Hostel bar listening to a band, chatting with the locals and drinking hard apple cider, my drink of choice. This is probably no the due this trip deserves so I may come back and edit this later but I have more things to add.
The center of the city has several streets that are pedsitiran or at least very low traffic. They were a great place to wander and see the life of Cork. In this area was the English Market, which was an giant indoor market place. There were stalls selling everything from fish to baked goods. It reminded me of the market in Rome. The similarity to Rome continued in the amount of churches scattered about. They were everywhere and, although they weren't as ornate as you would see in Rome, they were beautiful. I also stopped at the Crawford Art Gallery and spent a couple hours wandering through halls of Irish art. My favorite exhibit was a set of drawings that were the schematics for stained glass windows. I saw the cathedral and the city jail. I spent a ton of time wandering around the city just looking at street art and architecture. I even went an saw a movie. I spent Saturday night in the Hostel bar listening to a band, chatting with the locals and drinking hard apple cider, my drink of choice. This is probably no the due this trip deserves so I may come back and edit this later but I have more things to add.
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Glendalough
On Saturday I went on tour to Glendalough (pronounced glen-da-lock). It is one of the most beautiful and most photographs places in Ireland. On the trip, we stopped to take pictures in several places and even drove by Bono's house. We had lunch in a traditional pub, I had mince and onion pie, which was delicious. towards the end of the tour everyone got a shot of Jameson, except the driver of course! Our guide made a special stop in park that overlooked the whole of Dublin as well as a good part of the coast. It was an incredibly fin and exhausting day.
Phones and ancient gold
I've been lazy the last few days in updating this so sorry for that. Here we go:
I only have one class on Friday's and it's at 9 so I basically have the day to do whatever. I decided it was high time I got a phone working. Instead of missing with the card in my iPhone, I bought a cheap flip phone that does three things: call, text, and pick up FM radio. But it suits my needs.
I also went to the National Museum of Archeology. It was incredible. Like the Smithsonian, the national museums are free here. There was this unbelievable book that they recovered from a bog. I was considerably less thrilled by the bog bodies, however. I'm not overly fond of bodies and decapitated mummified ones are significantly worse. There was also a bunch of gold and other precious objects.
I only have one class on Friday's and it's at 9 so I basically have the day to do whatever. I decided it was high time I got a phone working. Instead of missing with the card in my iPhone, I bought a cheap flip phone that does three things: call, text, and pick up FM radio. But it suits my needs.
I also went to the National Museum of Archeology. It was incredible. Like the Smithsonian, the national museums are free here. There was this unbelievable book that they recovered from a bog. I was considerably less thrilled by the bog bodies, however. I'm not overly fond of bodies and decapitated mummified ones are significantly worse. There was also a bunch of gold and other precious objects.
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