Red Cow Moran Hotel Dublin

Ireland is really pretty, even in the “winter”. It’s not as green as in a lot of the pictures right now, but its still rolling hills, a lot of farmland and farm animals. Ashley got to see Irish sheep, so that was exciting (as it is one of her things to see whilst in Europe).
Anyway, we left Buffalo on time at 6:11 PM and t...

The drive to Dublin took about 4 hours on very good highways. We tried to avoid the M50 because it was a barrier-less toll road. Cars don't stop or slow down at all with this type of toll. As a matter of fact you don't know you've been on a toll road at all. However, the license number of each car is recorded and you have until 8:00 pm the next ...

July 1st Dublin - Day 2: A Good Look at Grafton Street

I had left my Timex "Indiglo" wristwatch on the nightstand in anticipation of waking up in darkness and wondering what time it was. When I first stirred awake, I was surprised to see it was only 4:30am since it was already getting light outside. That makes sense considering Ireland...

The day would be spent walking throughout Dublin, a city that is home to 1/3 of the population of the country. Interestingly enough, half of this population is under the age of twenty-five. Maybe that is why there are over 700 pubs here. To start the day our right, we grabbed a quick breakfast consisting of a blueberry muffin and a delicious lat...

Okay sorry. So here's the update from Thursday through Monday. And it's probably gunna be brief (well, brief by my standards) cuz I want to get the main points down and get some reading done. Thursday I had no class, which was wonderful. I got to relax a bit and walked around campus by myself - I had finally gotten to the point where I knew wher...

Hello everyone!! Well, I have finally managed to upload the photos of my recent travels, and since I can't remember where I was up to with the lists of photo links I've sent you, here's all of them!! I'm trying to get some on email you those of you that cannot access facebook, so if you want to see some photos (not many...and it will take time t...

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I promised I’d write if I did something interesting, *nd since it is now summer *nd school is out for * few weeks, I h*ve been up to my usu*l shen*****ns, tr*veling the world *nd wh*tnot. I’m not sure how long this letter is going to get bec*use there h*ve been * couple of trips now to write *bout, *nd lots of thin...

omg what a mess. Really. So I reassembled my bike at the airport. The front brake/wheel/something got misaligned in transit, and it just looked deformed. So the front wheel wouldn't roll smoothly. Then as I'm rolling the bike along on just the back wheel, I feel resistance there. I check the back brakes, and that one of the back brake was rubbin...

Dublin, what a great city. What a great weekend... My trip started early on Friday morning, January 25 at about 6:30 when I woke up, showered, and got ready to take the 8:30 bus to Dublin. Kelly and I made our way to the bus station fighting the deadly wind with all our gear just in time to catch the bus. We were slightly confused as to what we...

I've decided that this blog is going to replace my journal. I can't really write in a journal anymore beause my hand starts to hurt from writing, hate it. Anyway, that's the reason for the details, but perhaps it's entertaining anyway:) So here we are: Yesterday we arrived in Dublin in the morning after a 6 or so hour flight from Philadelphia. B...