AMSTERDAM & FRANKFURT

soooo.. amsterdam was fun..

really good to see martin in frankfurt too. didn't really do anything unique to frankfurt, but what is there to do there anyway?? we had a good time just wandering around poking about in fun little shops &c.

now in berlin. proposed to english guy called ash. he said he'd be okay with moving to galway. i'm not that keen on living in the UK.

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(later that night i was proposed to by a kiwi dude... this whole proposing to strangers thing must be part of some sort of quarter life crisis -ed.)

leaving notts

leaving notts tonight for luton airport.. we're going to spend the night in the airport, our plane for amsterdam leaves at 6am tomorrow.

nottingham is gorgeous.. we went to sherwood forest and met robin's band of merry men. ate lots of good food, drank some chai etc etc.

below: pauly in a tree in sherwood forest.

nottingham

just arrived in nottingham.. sitting in internet cafe waiting for llewella to finish work so we can head to her place. looking forward to exploring this place, drinking lots of chai tea along the way!

you can't fire me! I QUIT!

i quit my job. they didn't try to fire me at all, but they probably should have! i was doing terribly, not even making budget, and having a horrible horrible time of it. so i decided to leave, convinced someone else to leave with me, and we're going on a holiday! so all in all a fine start to the weekend.

toast and i are heading to belfast and giant's causeway for some sightseeing, then going to visit llewella in nottingham for a week or so, then heading to amsterdam to party for a couple of days, then heading over to germany, and i'm going to meet up with uncy martin there at the end of the month before heading back here to ireland to settle down in galway. very exciting! i'll be going to a few places i've never been to before which will be grand!

the money situation isn't ideal, but the worst that can happen is that i'll end up homeless and broke in a foreign country, and there must be a charity for that! i've probably fundraised for them, so i'll be fine :)

pics: my last roaming party, 1. family portrait, 2. the quitters!

the atlantic is cold in autumn

jumped in the sea in galway on saturday afternoon as an indirect result of australia losing to france in the world cup. it was very very cold.

lyndon, a guy i work with, is somewhat passionate about rugby. after watching the game on saturday he proceeded to get himself shamefully drunk, and so decided to strip off and jump in the water off the quays in galway. in an act of solidarity, a couple of other guys i work with jumped in after him. after watching them somewhat exasperatedly, i looked towards bec, shrugged my shoulders, and we both went after them. twas the beginning of a very crazy weekend... i'm still sort of recovering.

isn't the tree below pretty??? this is autumn! this is how the whole country looks!

finish this sentence: 'only in ireland...'

- do you find two road signs pointing in opposite directions saying exactly the same thing
- do people reach 80 having never left their own county
- do two houses and a pub count as a village
- can people use just their name and the name of their village as a full mailing address (because the mailman just knows everybody in their village)
- are there traffic lights in some small towns which are only turned on on sundays, for sunday mass rush hour
- are there 34 shades of green (there used to be 51... but global warming, yknow?)
- do people waste 50% of their conversation complaining about the weather (even when it's sunny... they can always complain about yesterday or tomorrow's rain)