"In other life, I was a rat"

Hi there,

I woke up with a terrible headache in the morning... it was the HANGOVER :-D Yesterday, I went for a drink with Miroslaw (my apartment mate). We where in a pub called "Czech Inn", a piece of Czech Republic in the heart of Dublin, where I tasted Czech beers and meal (a pancake with brie cheese inside, absolutely mouth-watering). When we were having dinner and talking about cheese, I spit the phrase "in other live, I was a rat" because I love eating cheese. I wanted to say "mouse", but in that moment I didn't remember it. It was very funny, we laughed aloud for a while.

After that, I showed Miroslaw the Ireland's oldest pub "The Brazen Head". It was more crowded than when I was there in February. Take note Javi, if you can go on Sunday evening, much better. We finished the night in other pub, drinking more beer. We got home at about 2pm. I really had a good time.

So, I got up late in the morning. By the way, it has been a sunny day! I went for a walk to the dock area and I discovered it's a nice new area. The beautiful Sean O'Casey Bridge was built in 2005. In one of its ends, there is a building like a merchant (Former Excise Stores I think it's called) with an amazing inside. I couldn't take any photo inside because my batteries finished. In the other bridge's end there is a quiet walk called "Campshire Walk", very nice as well. A few meters ahead, there is a building under construction, The National Conference Centre. It looks like a leaning cylinder. Great building :D

And that's all. Tomorrow more.

Paddywagon tours

Hi everybody,

These days happened anything interesting. I'm very grateful to everybody who have written comments in my blog or who have emailed me. Thanks a lot for that.

I've just booked in Paddywagon tours. I'm leaving Dublin on Monday morning. I'm very excited for that because I'm being with new people (the same people) for 10 days. I hope to get on well with them. It could be a success or a failure, who knows.

In the morning I went to a recruitment fair, and it was a failure indeed. If I want to get a job here (IT job), I have to be fluent in English. I didn't think I would.

By the way, I think I'm putting on weight. Too many fish fingers, too many fries (the hard potatoes I bought are really testy fries), and too many meat products. I'm afraid but I should go on a diet when I get home.

Anyway, I'm going for a drink with my apartment mate tonight.

Do you know who is the guy in the photo? More photos in the photo album. Bye.

Boring day

Rainy morning, cloudy and sunny afternoon, and windy and rainy evening. No comments :P

Walking to my English school, I came across this strange house with an artificial tree in front of it made with wire fence and dummies. I don't know how to define it, have a look better. There are more photos on the photo album.

By the way, I have other new teacher (the third one), and it's Irish at last!
He's from Cork so there's nobody who understands him :D

Transition day

As the heading says, I've done nothing interesting today. Wasting my time in Dublin buses in the morning, and English lessons in the afternoon.

The only interesting thing I did was inject my vaccine. I went to a pub (close to a clinic) before class to have a coffee. I asked to the waiter for the toilet, and when I was there, I injected it like a drug addict. It was distressing :D Otherwise, I had paid 50€ or 60€ in a clinic. The photo shows the pub where I went.

Pool and Howth Head

Yesterday was a great day. In the afternoon I met with my two Polish friends, Karolina and Jimmy, John (other Irish guy, not the John we know), and Fernando (a Colombian guy we met at Ron Blacks, in the language exchange). We went to have a coffee and next we went to John's place to see a movie in Spanish because they study Spanish. I know, I have to practice English not Spanish, but we speak in English too :D Anyway, the movie was "Tropa Élite", a Brazilian movie about drugs and police corruption at "fabelas" in Rio de Janeiro. It's quite good and violent, highly recommend.

After that, we went to play pool at "The Palace" (http://www.dublintourist.com/details/the_palace.shtml). This information is for you, Javi. I know you'll need it. In that street there are more pubs that you can visit. It's quite different to Temple Bar, with less tourists. I really had a good time together.

Jimmy told me about Howth Head, a peninsula in the North East of Dublin. I decided to go, and that is exactly what I've done today. After doing the washing, I took the bus 41 to the city centre and next the 31 (more information Javi) until Howth. I got off the bus at pier, where starts the promenade (new vocabulary :-P). There were some stalls with food, different kinds of bread, cheese, and even olive oil, "chorizo" and "serrano" ham. By the way, I brought a sandwich of "serrano" ham to have lunch, mmm mouth watering :D

Here you can see the route.

There are some photos in the photo album. I apologize for the poor quality but when I wanted to take a photo to some seals, I realized that I had forgotten the memory card in the laptop. What a pity! I took the photos with my mobile phone :-( In any case, the sceneries are amazing. I could walk along the cliffs, from the pier to the Baily Lighthouse (see the map). I went hiking! I can't believe it! :-D If I have free time and it's a sunny day, I'll maybe go there again.