Last night Alina and I got hungry real late (9pm) and figured that the only thing that would be serving food was McDonalds. So I went and got us some french fries and sundaes for dinner while Alina made her plans to leave for Italy in the morning. We then stayed up a little bit and talked to a Polish woman, a French guy and a Spanish couple. It ...

My what a weekend it has been! My week was pretty boring so I don't really have anything interesting to talk about there. All of my roomates had papers to write so no one really wanted to do much. I just worked a lot and hung out around the house... nothing exciting! Friday however I left work early and made my way to the airport to head to DUBL...

Baile-ath-Cliath, literally means the Town of the ford of hurdles.

It is crazy here. It rains on and off non-stop. I can understand why people drink so much. "Things You Don't See At Home" Something else here that puzzles me: It's 6:30pm, and I'm walking down one of the very busy shopping streets. I mean there are 1000's of people around. And nearly every store is already closed, and has been since about 6. I f...

Hello all my family and friends missing me in Canada and around the world. Today is officially one week in Ireland and things are slowly coming together..I hope. I started work yesterday through the temp agency that I've registered with. The sent me to a solicitor's office to fill in for a receptionist that was at home nursing her hangover...act...

I had a lovely day in Dublin today. Slept in, met up with some of the tour group and had lunch in the sun at St Stephen's Green, did a walking tour through Trinity college and saw the Book of Kells, and looked through the souvenir (?sp) shops. Then headed out for a night of comedy at the International Comedy Club - lots of laughs. So it is actua...

It's been a few days since I wrote, but basically we have been working everyday for about 14 hours a day. It sucks working but there has been some highlights! On Sunday we worked all day and ended up going to another town for dinner. It was really nice, until it got dark at 11pm, and then we had to find a bus to take back. We walked about a mile...

Hopefully this will be my last entry from Ireland as I'll be flying off on Monday week to Mexico. After all the nonsense in Bootsy Brogans with Sheldon and Jon saying how good it would be to go travelling again, it feels strange to be actually going. But very exciting all the same. The last couple of weeks have been mad busy. Playing with my nie...

So, what did I do in Ireland? For about the first week I did a tour of Ireland with a brief foray into Northern Ireland with Stray (www.straytravel.com). Basically it's a backpacking tour that goes from hostel to hostel and stops at the sights along the way. You can get off the bus wherever and get back on another later. They call it "A unique c...

Got up after the first goods night sleep since I got here. I had arranged for the taxi to collect me at 6:30am even though the bus isn't 'till 7:35am. According to the guidebook taxis often just don't show up. That way I should have time to make other arrangements (ie start walking) if it doesn't show up. The taxi actually showed up! Did I menti...