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Friday, October 31, 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
A Fall Day
Haven't been up to too much lately. One of my classes just ended, so I've been working on a paper that's due Thursday night. Had to go into town today to take care of some errands and to get some research done in the library. Took the little camera today so I could take some pictures of the trees changing, and took some pictures of the cooler looking University buildings. Enjoy.
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Dublin, Ireland
Hello again. Haven't been up to too much since I last wrote on here, just day to day stuff. This weekend however, some friends and I took a trip to Dublin. We flew there early on Friday out of Copenhagen, taking a bus and a train to get to the airport. We took Aer Lingus, which is a discount airline out of Ireland. We met a cool guy on the plane that was working in Sweden, but was from Ireland. He gave us a couple tips and such on how to get into the city from the airport and good places to visit.
Once we landed we took a double decker bus into the city. The ride took a while because of construction and because the bus had to make a bunch of local stops. Once we got into the city we walked to our hotel, which was your standard Holiday Inn. Once checked in we found some very authentic fish and chips, which were coated in salt and vinegar. Very bad for you but very tasty. Then of course we needed to stop by an Irish pub to get a drink. Once we finished our Irish beer, we went and visited the Trinity College campus. Didn't get any pictures of that, because there were lots of students around, and we just pretended that we were also students.
After our wanderings we all felt like taking a nap, so we went back to the hotel and slept for a while. Later, we figured out a great place to get authentic Irish food, and the place had two old guys playing some really cool Irish music. After a while of relaxing there, we decided to go to the Temple Bar area to find some nightlife to partake in. We found a cool place that had good live music and several floors of entertainment.
The next day, we ended up getting up an hour earlier than planned, because the previous tenants had messed with the time, but we were all up by the point that we figured this out. Anyways, this allowed us to catch breakfast at the hotel, then make our way around town.
First we walked all the way across town to the Guinness Storehouse, which is their museum and tourism place. Very cool place, had a bar at the top that had a 360 view of the city of Dublin. You picked up your complementary Guinness up there. After that we made our way past a cool church and stopped by Dublin Castle.
About this time we stopped by a tattoo place because my friend Peter wanted to get a Celtic tattoo in Ireland. So he did. Its the tree of life. The middle is actually green, but it looks red because of his blood. After that we hit up Quiznos for dinner then made our way to O'Connell st, which is the main street for shops and touristy things to do. On the boulevard of this street, is a giant spire that is really tall. Looks like a giant toothpick. After we got bored of that area we went back to the hotel to pick up our bags which they had been holding for us. Then we made our way to a pub and chilled there until we decided to go to the airport and sleep.
We had decided that since our flight was at 6:40, we didn't want to pay for the hotel the second night, and that we would just sleep in the airport. Worked fine, except that we couldn't check in for a little while when we got there at 1:30 (we expected it to take much longer to get there, but we had a crazy taxi driver). Anyways, we ate some Micky D's and slept against a wall until we could check in, then we found some nice benches to sleep on until our flight.
It was a great trip and I had a lot of fun hanging out with my friends and seeing Dublin. Had a bunch of cool experiences, and everyone spoke english!
PS, I also went to the National Gallery, so I did have some culture, and if you want to see the pictures bigger, click on the slideshow to see the gallery.
Once we landed we took a double decker bus into the city. The ride took a while because of construction and because the bus had to make a bunch of local stops. Once we got into the city we walked to our hotel, which was your standard Holiday Inn. Once checked in we found some very authentic fish and chips, which were coated in salt and vinegar. Very bad for you but very tasty. Then of course we needed to stop by an Irish pub to get a drink. Once we finished our Irish beer, we went and visited the Trinity College campus. Didn't get any pictures of that, because there were lots of students around, and we just pretended that we were also students.
After our wanderings we all felt like taking a nap, so we went back to the hotel and slept for a while. Later, we figured out a great place to get authentic Irish food, and the place had two old guys playing some really cool Irish music. After a while of relaxing there, we decided to go to the Temple Bar area to find some nightlife to partake in. We found a cool place that had good live music and several floors of entertainment.
The next day, we ended up getting up an hour earlier than planned, because the previous tenants had messed with the time, but we were all up by the point that we figured this out. Anyways, this allowed us to catch breakfast at the hotel, then make our way around town.
First we walked all the way across town to the Guinness Storehouse, which is their museum and tourism place. Very cool place, had a bar at the top that had a 360 view of the city of Dublin. You picked up your complementary Guinness up there. After that we made our way past a cool church and stopped by Dublin Castle.
About this time we stopped by a tattoo place because my friend Peter wanted to get a Celtic tattoo in Ireland. So he did. Its the tree of life. The middle is actually green, but it looks red because of his blood. After that we hit up Quiznos for dinner then made our way to O'Connell st, which is the main street for shops and touristy things to do. On the boulevard of this street, is a giant spire that is really tall. Looks like a giant toothpick. After we got bored of that area we went back to the hotel to pick up our bags which they had been holding for us. Then we made our way to a pub and chilled there until we decided to go to the airport and sleep.
We had decided that since our flight was at 6:40, we didn't want to pay for the hotel the second night, and that we would just sleep in the airport. Worked fine, except that we couldn't check in for a little while when we got there at 1:30 (we expected it to take much longer to get there, but we had a crazy taxi driver). Anyways, we ate some Micky D's and slept against a wall until we could check in, then we found some nice benches to sleep on until our flight.
It was a great trip and I had a lot of fun hanging out with my friends and seeing Dublin. Had a bunch of cool experiences, and everyone spoke english!
PS, I also went to the National Gallery, so I did have some culture, and if you want to see the pictures bigger, click on the slideshow to see the gallery.
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