We leave Ireland tomorrow and I am so sad to go. This whole place and experience was amazing and I couldn't have asked for a better time. The people we met, the places we went, the things we did, all was wonderful. Thank you to Russagh Mill Hostel for an amazing 3 weeks, CorkXSouthwest music festival for introducing us to the best Irish people around, Ethan our favorite 16 year old tour guide, and anyone we met in between. SUCH GOOD CRAIC!!
You guys should check out Jessica's blog because she just put up pictures...
jessicabarcelona.wordpress.com
off to Budapest!!!
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Saturday, June 11, 2011
LOVELY IRELAND
Sooo I have totally failed at keeping up with the blog, but basically I am in love with Ireland and all its wonderful people. I am sooo happy we are here and everything has been perfect. I'm just going to write a top 5 list...
1. We are working at a hostel/adventure center near a town called Skibbereen in the south of Ireland. The place is awesome, our boss is this great English guy named Sean, the work is fairly easy nothing more than cleaning, making beds, and checking people in and out. We have been kayacking and swimming out on the sea lakes and hiking a bit!! The place is BEAUTIFUL!! They give us about 100 Euro a week for food which is more than enough and all of us helpers cook for each other. Right now we are working with 3 other american guys and an italian guy just left a few days ago.
2. We worked last weekend at a big music festival called CorkXSouthwest in exchange for free concert tickets. Best decision ever because they put us as "security" at the campsite so basically we did nothing, met all the cool people at the campsite during the day, and then spent the night at the festival with all the cool people we had met. It was hilarious and everyone was great. We learned how to riverdance in a field, went to drum circles, met band members, and also met generally the entire county of Cork.
3. We spent 2 nights in Dublin when we first landed and we fell in love. Everyone is so friendly, the atmosphere is super relaxed, and the pubs are hilariously fun. Everyone talks to everyone. And we had our first tastes of Guiness and to my suprise they were actually pretty good. We decided we almost prefer it to a lot of other beers. At one point we met some Scottish guys in kilts on the street and they ended up buying us pints and we spent a few hours dying of laughter with their ridiculous accents.
4. The weather is not a selling point. We definitely packed wrong and ended up having to go into town to buy long sleeved shirts the other day. It rains or is cloudy atleast once a day and is generally always cold. However, the sun does shine and when it does this place truly is magical. Its greener than green. And there is nothing more beautiful than seeing green rolling hills against clear blue skies. Ireland is soo peaceful. Such a change from the craziness of Madrid.
5. And finally, as always, the people we have met completely make the place. Last Monday we camped out with a group of crazy Irish kids who had come to the hostel on their long weekend to hang out and relax. This weekend there is a group in of 40 irish guys all here to play in a Warhammer competition- basically a big nerdfest where they paint figurines and get really in to this intense board game all the while getting drunk and causing a ruckus. We have been invited to stay in 200 different homes all over Ireland, from Cork to Kerry to Limerick to Dublin to Belfast. We have hung out with girls in a Polish punk band, a historian from Ireland, a group of cyclists from Wales, lots of hippies at the festival, Ivan- a security guard from Georgia the country, an Iranian candy man, Ruben Stone, an Australian guy who picked us up hitchhiking, the list goes on...
Last night I played electric guitar at a the bar where the Polish punk band played the week before. There was a guy we ran into at the bar celebrating his 22nd birthday who turned out to be the Aussie guy who picked us up 2 weeks ago when we first got to Skibbereen haha.
Gosh I love this place.
We go to Austria in a week!!!!
1. We are working at a hostel/adventure center near a town called Skibbereen in the south of Ireland. The place is awesome, our boss is this great English guy named Sean, the work is fairly easy nothing more than cleaning, making beds, and checking people in and out. We have been kayacking and swimming out on the sea lakes and hiking a bit!! The place is BEAUTIFUL!! They give us about 100 Euro a week for food which is more than enough and all of us helpers cook for each other. Right now we are working with 3 other american guys and an italian guy just left a few days ago.
2. We worked last weekend at a big music festival called CorkXSouthwest in exchange for free concert tickets. Best decision ever because they put us as "security" at the campsite so basically we did nothing, met all the cool people at the campsite during the day, and then spent the night at the festival with all the cool people we had met. It was hilarious and everyone was great. We learned how to riverdance in a field, went to drum circles, met band members, and also met generally the entire county of Cork.
3. We spent 2 nights in Dublin when we first landed and we fell in love. Everyone is so friendly, the atmosphere is super relaxed, and the pubs are hilariously fun. Everyone talks to everyone. And we had our first tastes of Guiness and to my suprise they were actually pretty good. We decided we almost prefer it to a lot of other beers. At one point we met some Scottish guys in kilts on the street and they ended up buying us pints and we spent a few hours dying of laughter with their ridiculous accents.
4. The weather is not a selling point. We definitely packed wrong and ended up having to go into town to buy long sleeved shirts the other day. It rains or is cloudy atleast once a day and is generally always cold. However, the sun does shine and when it does this place truly is magical. Its greener than green. And there is nothing more beautiful than seeing green rolling hills against clear blue skies. Ireland is soo peaceful. Such a change from the craziness of Madrid.
5. And finally, as always, the people we have met completely make the place. Last Monday we camped out with a group of crazy Irish kids who had come to the hostel on their long weekend to hang out and relax. This weekend there is a group in of 40 irish guys all here to play in a Warhammer competition- basically a big nerdfest where they paint figurines and get really in to this intense board game all the while getting drunk and causing a ruckus. We have been invited to stay in 200 different homes all over Ireland, from Cork to Kerry to Limerick to Dublin to Belfast. We have hung out with girls in a Polish punk band, a historian from Ireland, a group of cyclists from Wales, lots of hippies at the festival, Ivan- a security guard from Georgia the country, an Iranian candy man, Ruben Stone, an Australian guy who picked us up hitchhiking, the list goes on...
Last night I played electric guitar at a the bar where the Polish punk band played the week before. There was a guy we ran into at the bar celebrating his 22nd birthday who turned out to be the Aussie guy who picked us up 2 weeks ago when we first got to Skibbereen haha.
Gosh I love this place.
We go to Austria in a week!!!!
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