On Saturday I visited Howth (rhymes with Both) with a couple of people from BC and was blown away by the beauty of the seaside village. We were lucky to have great, sunny weather. The village actually reminded me of Sausalito, where I spent most of my summer. We went on a hike around the peninsula and stared over the cliffs that drop off into the Irish sea. I also had some amazing chowder that was quite unlike the New England variety I am used to. It had full clams in the soup! I will upload more pictures once I open up a flickr account for all of my pictures, but to get an idea here is a picture from the internets.
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Monday, September 14, 2009
Howth
On Saturday I visited Howth (rhymes with Both) with a couple of people from BC and was blown away by the beauty of the seaside village. We were lucky to have great, sunny weather. The village actually reminded me of Sausalito, where I spent most of my summer. We went on a hike around the peninsula and stared over the cliffs that drop off into the Irish sea. I also had some amazing chowder that was quite unlike the New England variety I am used to. It had full clams in the soup! I will upload more pictures once I open up a flickr account for all of my pictures, but to get an idea here is a picture from the internets.
Friday, September 11, 2009
My house in Rathmines
This is the house (black door) that is home for the next 4 months. It is a 15 minute walk to St. Stephen's Green and a 10-15 minute bike ride to the UCD Dublin Campus in Belfield. Rathmines is in Dublin 6, which is south of city center (an lar in Irish). It is dangerously close to convenience stores and pubs. There are 8 of us living not including myself, 4 from Boston College, 3 from Cornell, and one from Germany. All of us pitched in together to buy a grill, so there will probably be pictures of ourselves partaking in the illustrious Irish tradition of barbequeing in the rain.
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