Merry X-Mess

4:00am 

feliz navidad

...or "Merry from Belfast Christmas"

 

Sinn Féin

This weekend we had our last trip and it lead us to Belfast and the Giant's Causeway. The Hostel in Belfast (Paddy's Backpackers) was pretty dissapointing. The radiators were more like decoration than heating devices and as you can see on the picture the residual environment was totaly up to date!

Anyway, the city was very intresting especially regarding the history of the irish conflict.

Hence the police cars were more like tanks than cars. A little scary.
But for compensation they had a very nice christmas market in front of the city hall. Even with a "German Bierzelt" and a lot of "Glühwein"

On Sunday we went to the Giant's Causeway, it's an amazing place on the coastline of Northern Ireland. It's a big field of hexagon shaped stonepillars direct at the shore. See more pics of this place on my "Erstwohnsitz" 

Galway pigeon

 

3xGER+NL+GB+ITA = IRE

Just a few visitors from the rest of europe

Gravity Bar

Chrysler fondling

Turk's Head 

"Pfropfen"

One weekend ago we've been to Cork and Kinsale with nearly the whole Erasmus-Society. Actually I expected Cork to be a little more interesting, but anyway, we had a nice stay there. One of the highlights, regarding to the sights, was the St.Finbarre's Cathedral seen above.Later that day after a huge dinner (lots of pasta) we went out to the "An Brog" a nice pub where we occupied one of the two bars completly. Later after closing tome we met these two fellas, I can barely remember it, but my camera could... still a nice pic, even tough I can't remember shooting it.
The next day we cured our hangover in a nice little town called Kinsale, which is meant to be the little irish St.Tropez (as a french travel guide says). Well it was a nice little town with a lot of restaurants, but most of them were closed on Sunday aftrenoon. A nice place to stay, as we found, was the Charles Fort, seen above. One of the best preserved hexagram-shaped forts. A very green, quiet and peaceful place, the complete opposite of that what is was build for.
Returning from the fort, we had the typical fish and chips for dinner (ever tasted crumbed and fried smoked salomon?!) and made our way back "home" at around 6pm... Thanks to Pablo we watched a very very old John Wayne movie on the Bus - "Back to Bataan" - a perfect tranquillizer... 

mein reden

(c) Spiegel online 

let it flow

Today we had a nice little foundry lab. We created our own moulds and casted them with aluminum... quite nice playing with sand again. 

most mounted sign

On every construction site, every new or renovated building, every new rails... on nearly everything whats more or less new you can find this sign. But we still have to pay the f*** expensive fees for the busses and trains... I don't get it - we already did! 

Back to the roots

Last week we had a nice paitball match (my first), nd I didn't expected the ammunition to hurt that much. Well, we had 4 matches (15vs15) in the forest. It rained the whole day that means crawling through mud, leaves and roots. I was the decoy in the 3rd match so I brought a lot bruises back home. Nice ring-shape... Whatever, it was fun and now my shoes are completely ruined.

On the 31st we had a nice lill' helloween-party at a friends place.

First I didn't want to go, but after I heard all the fireworks round here, I felt a little sad, so I went to have some beers with the others... I didn't regret it. We had a nice Night!

But the time has come to return to the basics... I'll come back to Hamburg from the 17th to the 29th December... 

from Glendalough to Wicklow

Today we had our first trip within the International Culture- a.k.a. Erasmus-Society. We went to a pretty nice place south from Dublin - Glendalough ('the valley of the two lakes')
Honestly there were just some old ruins and an old cemetery but the surroundings were very beautiful - maybe a little spooky
We enjoyed not only the flora also the fauna
After leaving the old ground we started up to Wicklow. After a rollercoaster like drive through the mountains, while nearly everybody was sleeping, we just settled down on the beach and let the day pass by... with several Guinness and some Rum-Coke of course :)
 

Final destination Tramway Court

I hope this will be my last movement here in Dublin. The internet connection is still not 100% working but better than nothing. So I try to manage it to give my reports a little more often...

This weekend was so exhausting. On Friday we have been to the city centre to the Trinity Pavilion and enjoyed the 2,- Beer offer pretty good, subsequent to that we found a good old freind of mine - Jägermeister - and that killed me. Thanks to German liquor!
Next day after 3hrs of sleep the mess continiued and I got to know "Kalimotxo" - actual it's just redwine and coke, but combined with stupid teenage drinking games it's killing. Anyway, we had a nice party again in this student accomodation and even less of sleep. But as always it was worth killing the Sunday therefor... 

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Still no time to relax, but we are moving again...

25, Tramway Court
Old Blessington Road
Tallaght Village
Dublin 24

I hope it will last longer this time! 

lifesigns

Still no f**** broadband at home - I apologize for the lack of new pic and information. I Hope that will be fixed soon... Cheers