So... its been about 2 weeks since I returned from Ireland and Germany and the aftermath is... my credit card numbers have been stolen and now I have several charges to both accounts for the opening of yahoo calling accounts so that these thieves can make calls via yahoo. Bitches.

Work was again much of the same. Phil arrived towards the end of the week and was immediately welcomed in true irish style by too many pints down at the pub with all the kooglers! I took Phil around Dublin to do all the sights again - yes it was still sunny and glorious! - and we even took  the Viking Splash Tour in a WW2 DUKW amphibian veh...

"Greetings from Dublin, where the weekend begins on Wednesday night, and ends the following Wednesday morning!"      Our Irish adventure truly did begin early, with a 5am wakeup call in Edinburgh. By breakfast yesterday, we were on the streets of Dublin, stumbling bleary eyed but excited to see famous Dublin. We had all heard...

Our stop over in Dublin is complete, and now for some insightful reflections... Day 6 After a quick flight we touch down in the capital of the Emerald Isle, Dublin. A preliminary meander around the town reveals the convenience of our hostel location, nicely in a part of town called Temple Bar... presumably the bars are temples rather then vice-v...

Na rozdiel od septembra ktory bol pre mna v znameni ciest na vychod (Rusko, Rumunsko, Bulharsko), oktober je pre mna v znameni ciest na zapad (Irsko, Anglicko, Holandsko, Morava). Do Irska som sa velmi dlhy cas tesil, ale nejako sa mi sem nedarilo dostat. No tak az teraz. Iri maju podobnu historiu ako Slovaci a to hlavne v tom, ze sa ich susedny...

History: The first early Celtic habitation was beside the River Liffey and the city's Irish name, Baile Atha Cliath (the Town of the Hurdle Ford) comes from an ancient river crossing that can still be pinpointed today. By the 9th century, Viking raids had become a fact of Irish life, but some of the Danes chose to stay rather than rape, pillage ...