Park House Galway

... 30th.<br><br>Next I'll spend 3 weeks in New Zealand, mostly on the South Island, and fly from Auckland to LA on May 22nd. <br><br>After a final 3 weeks in America I will fly from New York to London on June 17th.<br><br>I have bought and scrounged everything I need to take, and I have typed up more notes than I can handle. I'm very excited to finally be so close to going, after years of planning and hoping!! <br><br>My next post will be from India!!!<br>

... visited Trinity College and experienced an actual college campus. It was great to see another college campus and imagine what it would be like to go to school in a foreign country. We then stayed in a hotel where we had far less beds than people and I played a game of musical beds all night. Gratefully, our room stayed up late talking so that the lack of sleep was easier to comprehend because I didn't have any space on a bed. <br>

... at a pub between 7-8pm, wondering why places were starting to switch from serving dinner to bar time. In Spain, dinner is generally between 8-10pm (since lunch is 2-4pm). We were a little confused when we found out that the Irish eat between 5pm and 7pm. I think I'm going to have some serious culture shock issues with that when I go back to the US. In any case, we were finally able to find a good place to eat around 8. I had a veggie ...

... the carlsbad caverns, but i guess thats me just being spoiled. Then we went on to the Cliffs of Moher and what a beautiful site! I have to say that we could not have picked a more perfect day! It was a bit cloudy when we first got there but the sun came out quickly and It was absoloutly gorgeous. In Palos Verdes we have alot of cliffs, but they really have nothing on these bad boys. They were absoloutly HUGE! (215 meters high to be exact) It was ...

... for its September Matchmaking Festival. We arrived in Galway and stopped at the Tourist Information office to get our bearings. They ran a price comparison search of Galway-area accommodations for us, and we booked a B&amp;B in Salthill. Salthill is a (mostly) residential area across the river from Galway proper. Salthill is considered kind of a beach resort area, since it is right on the Atlantic ...

... were first introduced to Galway by the Normans and were used as food. Of course, now it's illegal to hunt them. There is also a large number of eels in the waters. They import them to other countries. <br><br>Another castle ruin that I pass by everyday on my walk to school was also pointed out on this cruise. It is called Terry Land Castle. (Isn&#8217;t that great?! I tried to get a good picture of it for you, Terry.) I also ...

... address. While on the way there I was thinking that really should get my hair cut and with not a lot on today I really should take advantage of that. I had been thinking I&#8217;d get it cut when I got back from Carcassonne in a few days time while I wait around, but Cecilia warned me that Bishop&#8217;s Stortford is a &#8220;boutique&#8221; town and the cheapest haircut is like 35 pounds ($70).<br><br>So I detoured into Ennis, and found that there was a ...

... broke my heart and I have decided I need to SOMEHOW make it back to Athens even if it is only 4 days So i was looking up flights in May and I found one there and back for 150 euro- not bad I guess I am going to harass my friend Thanos who I worked with to let me sleep at his place! I just MISS Athens so much and would REALY like to go there one more time before I leave just to see all my friends to see the Acropolis and everything one last time- I ...

... I actually had an AMAZING nights sleep and slept for almost 10 hours! I only work up once in a sweat (the 3 nights prior I would wake up 3-4 times completely drenched in my own sweat ripping off my wet clothes and sheets! What a mess in know disgusting!) BUT not last night only ONCE and then only woke up one more time when Dave called and that was it! AND I feel so much better today!!! I hope it keeps up and I can smell so that MUST mean that I will be ...

On Monday morning Katherine and I moved into the long-termers' room so we could get the cheaper rate (&euro;70 a week, about half-price). 6 people in 3 bunk beds in a room the same size as the one we'd been in, which only had 2 bunk beds and we'd had it to ourselves anyway, plus we'd been there for so long we'd spread out and claimed it as ours. Now that was depressing. Excerpt from my diary: "I had a shower (no water pressure, too hot) and dressed nicely in my best pants ...