2nd Roadtrip (the North)

Time always passes by much too quickly and there are so many thing I would like to talk about but I simply don't have the time...So here is just a short overview about what had happened here since my last entry.

2nd Roadtrip, North

First of all I went with Eveline, a very good friend of mine from Switzerland, and Petra to the North, for another Roadtrip. This time we only left for 2 days but we decided to rent a car because we would be more flexibel. It was great fun! We drove around in the countryside just outside of Dublin, trying to find the Hills of Tara and see some nice places on the way (like the gravehill where you had to ask the farmer for the key..) but we got lost and did a nice detour.

But we met many nice Irish people who showed us the way, explained it to us, drove in front of us or simply tried to help us get out ;-) It sounds bad now but it actually wasn't. It was funny and amazing to see how friendly those people are and it made us all think whether this would be similar in Switzerland (and somehow we all doubted it..). But we finally made it to the Hills and decided to drive over the city of Trim to visit the castle (where the movie Braveheart was filmed) and had lunch.

We afterwards followed with our trip up North. As there is no border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland (which belongs to the UK) it is very hard to realise when you've crossed it. But the prices for gas and the speed sign were different (pounds and miles). It was fun to drive with speed sign in miles if your car only has a tachometer in kilometres. We spent the night in Belfast but we didn't see a lot of the city. We went to eat in a pub/restaurant and ordered a drink at the end. They however showed a price for a glass but brought us a pitcher and said that didn't have a glas. When we showed them the menu where the price for the glass was listed they gave us the pitcher for the price of the glass! So we had a nice and cheap evening :-).

On the second day we drove trough the countryside and along the coast to the giant causeway. This natural stones on the shore look like a giant "way" and the legend goes that a giant wanted to build a way to his love who lived on another island. Here are some pictures.

Weekend with my parents

Last weekend my parents and Laurence came to visit me. It was very nice seeing them again and showing them around "my" city! We had a great time altough it rained for the first time in 3 weeks. We did some sight-seeing and a musical pub crawl which was great fun. Here some picutres

Exams

At the moment I have exams. That't the reason I need to study and don't have a lot of time for blogging. But I promise that I will write about a couple of other (funny) things that happened here in Dublin.