The quote from Shakespeare is “parting is such sweet sorrow”, I like “bittersweet sorrow” better. These past 3 months in Dublin has been a trip to remember for a lifetime. I had made friends in Dublin from all over the world. Worked in a scientific setting, and presented my research in a new country. The…
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Ireland Week 10
Dinner in Dublin, and hiking in the Wicklow mountains (hills)
Rebel County, Ireland
Spent my last weekend in the County of Cork Ireland. It was a nice city, smaller then Dublin of course. It’s called the Rebel County because it used to be a rebellious city, and they think they’re still the ‘real’ capital of Ireland. I visited a neighboring town(village) called Kinsale and it was supposed to…
Ireland Week 8
Short week in Dublin this week… I took a walk around the City taking pictures, and I went to the Science Gallery in Trinity College, and I found a Thermin! Brings back all the horrid memories of ECE 137B once again… but the instrument is still very cool!
Dublin, City of Literature (Baile Átha Cliath)
I’m late in updates…but the weekend of the 24-25th of July, I went to the festival of world cultures in Dún Laoghaire (south of Dublin), and up to Bray (North of Dublin), but I won’t be posting about that, if you want to see pictures, go to the Ireland week 6 photo album. This past…
The Megalithic Passage Tomb at Newgrange
The name sounds more exciting than the actual tomb… O.o Lol, well we finally made our trip to Newgrange this past Saturday, and the tombs were over 5000 years old. They’re really old rocks. So apparently the tombs are built obviously for the dead, but also to follow the way the sun moves across the…
Darkaqua Chronicles 