The University where I was studying is placed in Maynooth, it's mostly student small village near Dublin(capital of Ireland), about 20 kilometers, 40 minutes by train or bus. Buses are of course two-storey :) Almost whole life there is beacuse of student, there are 3 hipermarkets, Tesco, Aldi and DunniesDunnes Stores, so there is many possibilities to cheap shopping.
In Ireland it is typical, that there are many pubs and lounges. Some of them are realy huge, like many rooms, many floors, several bars. The biggest Pub in Maynooth is The Roost, it is also the most popular, every day, every night it was full, even there were queues in front of it.
Roost
In Dublin is quite the same, in the city center down the streets there are many pubs, all day they are full of people, it is even hard to get in to the pub, because for example the most popular and the most known Pub in Dublin, Temple Bar, is quite Small, I mean thin corridors, you must to squeeze through the people if you want to buy a pint of beer.
Ok as I came to Beer, it is the most popular alcoholic beverage, every one drink beer, ale the day :) And of course Ireland has its own traditional beer Guinness. The oldest factory producing this beer up to now is placed near the center. In old part of the factory, now is Guinness museum, where you can learn how beer was made, you can lear how to pure guinness beer and get the certificate that you can do it, as pouring the beer must be in a special way, because Guinness is a Draught beer, it is special dark and thick type of beer, pouring is complicated, you need to do a special order resulting foam had an adequate thickness and must be convex and protruding from the pint. The taste is also completely different than beer we know. It took me about one month to get used to it and after come back to Poland I miss that.
There buildings there are beautiful, many old building in very good condition, many parks, many palaces, castels and properties. It is realy amazing, of dazzling beauty like that building of Maynooth University, it is like from Harry Potter Movie, exactly, it is breathtaking, there are beautiful gardens nurtured every day.
Form Dublin it is few minuts to get to Sea, it is quite different coast than we have in Poland.
Practically there is no beach, the rocks are in most cases.
Do you remember tv advert of Dog in The Fog beer? in fact it is a english beer, but it is not the point, I mean about the weather. Yes, there may be a little exaggerated, but in reality it is almost the same, realy strong winds, at least for half a week's rain.
From what you write is clear that there is ideal weather for sailors. Moments of sailing and then sit for three days at the bar and tell how the wind rose, the sails. I feel like it. :) Can easily charter a boat there? You know if the Polish marine patents are valid in Ireland?
ReplyDeleteI'm maniac of sailing, but i didn't try beeind in Ireland :(
ReplyDeleteTraveling around the country, I saw some yachts in ports, but I can't remain if I saw any place where you could charter the boat. That was rather private yachts.
But it is only my guesses, I didn't try to find such informations.
But one of my dreams after comming back from Irealnd is to sail there from Poland, to the Green Island :)
I guess it must be beautiful... :)
About Patents I have no informations :(
But as I know, if you have polish patent, you can convert it into international pattent ISSA(if I correctly remember the name)
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ReplyDeleteOne picture with yacht from Ireland:
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Hehehe you must pay attention to the ebb :P
After seing the photos you posted I must say that it looks exactly as England. Not that Im surprised but your description can be pretty much applied to England as much as it applies to Ireland.
ReplyDeleteZillion of pubs everywhere, two floor buses, green all around and windy weather. I definitely agree on the rain bit as well. When I was in Leeds it could rain as much as five times a day.
I remember me talking with one girl there, we were talking about....weather...yes weather and I told her we have hot summer and snowy winters.
Her reply was something along lines of :
"Wow...thats reallye extreme weather!"
To which I said :
"No its pretty normal, now rain five times a day...THATS extreme weather!"
Also people in Great Brittan apparently think we have Polar Bears roaming about the streets and that we dont have street lights!