{"id":4894,"date":"2013-01-30T12:50:13","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T20:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/studyingabroad\/?p=4894"},"modified":"2013-01-30T12:50:13","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T20:50:13","slug":"trips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/2013\/01\/30\/trips\/","title":{"rendered":"Trips!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I never thought about travelling outside of the UK while I was here. \u00a0I realize now that this is something a lot of people planned on doing when they were thinking of places to study abroad. \u00a0After all, Europe’s only a hop, skip, and three-to-five hour plane ride away. \u00a0Classes still matter but the homework load is roughly ten times lighter than I’m personally used to, and for a lot of people on this program their grades don’t affect their GPA. \u00a0That’s a pretty sweet deal if you decide you want to pop over to Italy for the weekend.<\/p>\n

I decided to travel to the beach this weekend. \u00a0Baby steps.<\/p>\n

Actually, I went to two beaches this weekend. \u00a0I went to Dun Laoghaire (“Dun Leery”) and Howth (rhymes with “oath”), villages respectively to the south and to the north of Dublin city.<\/p>\n

Dun Laoghaire was really easy to get to! \u00a0I’m figuring out the bus system here and there’s a city bus that goes there directly.<\/p>\n

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It looked like it was sunset all the time there, which was kind of strange because we got to Dun Laoghaire around noon. \u00a0We wandered out to the lighthouse, one of the two that Dun Laoghaire has. \u00a0They said there’d be ice cream there but they lied.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>All in all, it was nice to get out of the city, smell salt, and feel the wind. \u00a0It started raining just as we left, too, so it was good timing on our part!<\/p>\n

The next day, I had a full Irish breakfast before I took the DART (a train for short distances north or south of Dublin city) to Howth. \u00a0This is what it looks like (at least at the restaurant where we went):<\/p>\n

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<\/a>This consists of two slices of toast, a poached egg, a sausage, a mushroom, a tomato, two slices of Irish bacon (somewhere between Amurikan bacon and Canadian bacon, so it’s tolerable),\u00a0black pudding<\/a> (don’t look at that link if you’re vegetarian or disgusted by animal products),\u00a0white pudding<\/a>, and you can’t see it but there’s something I think was called Irish soda bread but I kept calling Lambis bread because I like LotR and I think I’m hilarious. \u00a0Guess what?<\/p>\n

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<\/a>I ate it all. \u00a0It got difficult towards the end but I did it. \u00a0So long as I didn’t think about it, the black pudding was delicious. \u00a0It was a heavy start to the day but I’m glad I tried it at least once.<\/p>\n

Howth has an outdoor farmer’s market on Sundays and oh my goodness, the goodies they had to offer. \u00a0They had something called chimney cake that was amazing–a long loop of pastry with cinnamon sugar on it. \u00a0Delicious! \u00a0This is one of my flatmates eating hers (with apple cider that was lava-hot):<\/p>\n

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<\/a>We barely made it out of Howth alive, though. \u00a0We were walking down the street when it started pouring. \u00a0The wind was actually screaming, it was so strong! \u00a0I was laughing my head off because I love storms. \u00a0This is the only picture of Howth itself that I managed to get before we were attacked by the weather:<\/p>\n

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<\/a>It has the same weird sunset kind of lighting. \u00a0I wonder if that’s normal in Ireland. \u00a0I’m definitely going back, though. \u00a0There’s a ferry you can take to a castle on an island and I still have yet to touch the sea here. \u00a0I love the beach so it was delightful to experience an Irish coast. \u00a0Two excellent day trips, one after the other! \u00a0And next weekend, I’m going to London! \u00a0I don’t plan to make travel a habit here but I want to see this country (and the one just over there, to the right, the big one with all the actors and authors in it).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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