After many gruesome flights to New York's JFK airport, I finally arrived in Dublin on Tuesday morning, June 16, 2008 at around 9:30 am. I joined three other students and shared a charter bus for the very bumpy, yet beautiful 2 and 1/2 hour drive south to Waterford. Waterford is the oldest city in the Republic of Ireland as it was founded by the ...

Yes as in Waterford crystal. But there is more to it. It is said to be the oldest town in Ireland, it was founded by the Vikings 1,100 years ago, it was key to the development of newfoundland in the 1700s, and of course the modern method of bacon curing was developed here. A pretty impressive list. Of course we had to start at the Waterford crys...

So I have to catch my train at 14:35 (2:35 for the layperson). I had around 2 hours to just wander around the city and then make it to the train. So what did I do? I did what any Kodiak would do, I screwed around so long that I was SPRINTING to the train. I knew it left at 14:38 and it was 14:34 when i entered the station. Well guess what, it di...