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Today Liz and I went to an Aquatics swim class.in Coral Leisure Centre within Courttown. The building won an award for conservation of energy. So it included solar pannels near the pool and a wind mill near the entrance. There was a large number of swimmers mainly women. The class was pretty busy and it was a good size poll. The instructor was good and we did most of the ...
Ireland at last
Well we finally arrived in Ireland, staggered of the plane as my legs had just about frozen in the sitting position. We had been traveling for approximately 40 hours on the planes and in airports. The plane from Singapore to Dubai was held on the runway for about an hour prior to take off, not sure why but it made us late at the Dubai end so no duty free shopping for us just a run behind a very fast, short ( easily lost in the ...
Time with Liz (so far)
I said bye to Aaron today and went to Dublin by bus to meet Liz (Iona's mom).
Took the 14:00 bus from Cork station and it took about 4 hours to get to Dublin.Upon meeting with Liz we had dinner at Cornucopia (a vegetarian restaurant) and went to a pub. We had a 1/2 pint of Guiness with black currant and listened to some traditional Irish music. We then drove to Gorey (about 1 hour away from Dublin) to get to Liz's where I will ...
Gorey... Here I Come!
... and we mainly talk about the difference between the two cultures which is always fun.
Paddy Blues was just so much fun. Not only was it a nice relaxing bar, but in the back room there was a DJ who was playing music, so of course we danced! Most of the songs were one's I knew since they mainly listen to American music, like Jay-Z, Black Eyed Pease... etc. though there are a few British bands that we don't know, we knew a majority of the music ...
Renting an Irish Cottage
... that the ground was so frozen that the flow of water to the streams was reduced to a trickle. A deer stared at us from a forest trail, observing our progress with a nonchalant look before she suddenly turned and skipped over the ditch- not even a crackling of branches to indicate her exit.
As we climbed out of the valley the wind blew up – pushing great plumes of icy snow ...
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