Yeah, another grand weekend with the IAESTE trainees! We'd loads of craic as the Irish would say :-)
Take a look at the pictures!
Last week Nina and Corinna visited me for a few days here in Dublin. Arrived on Sunday night and went back home firday moring. On monday I showed them the beach in Dublin and we went to Malahide castle. I never had such a bad guided tour, which was rather an audio tour than a guided one :-( Tuesday they did the Wicklow Mountains trip and were really impressed about that! And got totally wet on that trip, well, that's Ireland ;-) Wednesday and Thursday sightseeing in Dublin.
My first IAESTE Weekend without working :-) Bradley and me joined the IAESTE Northern Ireland Weekend going to Scotland for four days. Two nights in Edinburgh and one night in Glwasgow. And of course, I was there in a mission, playing a spie how the SR guy from IAESTE NI does his work :-) No comment to that....
Besides that we had a great time, Edinburgh is really worth to visit! Take a look at the photos and see by yourself!
We didn't get known to a lot of the trainees from NI since they were 40 people and nothing was organised to meet... except the things I organised : Haunted tour and Whisky distillery. And hey, I met Anna, IAESTE girl from Leoben :-)
On Saturday we took the train to Glasgow and stayed there till Sunday afternoon. Sunday was no lucky day at all: We went to the airport in Glasgow and found out that we're wrong here. Ryanair departs from a small airport outside the city, so we were forced to take a cab to go there, which costed us 100 Euros!! So no more money left for shopping. And last but not least, the flight was 1h delayed, so we arrived back in Dublin at about 1am on Monday.
Jipeeeee, we have a great group of trainees here, what a great weekend! Take a look at the pictures and make up your own opinion :-) Weather was perfect, too. Tried to do kayaking for the first time, and it was great. Maybe also because of the gorgeous surroundings.... fantastic landscape ... fantastic people ... fantastic city, definitely worth to visit. Dublin's just lound and so busy, so I definitly enjoyed getting out there :-)
Program was: going out in Cork on Friday, I met most of the trainees there for the first time, but short time after meeting them, I knew, this will be a great weekend with them! Did a lot of dancing and chatting. On Saturday we went to Skibereen, an acitvity center 1h away from Cork, to do archery, climbing, abseiling and kayaking. In the evening we stayed there and crowmed the best blower Bradley ;-) On Sunday back to Cork again with sighteeing and finishing with bwoling. Great weekend, just in case I havn't mentioned it yet :-)
Hihi, the first actinism came through the clouds, first time since ages.... Was a nice touristy weekend. I ended up as a whiskey tester (notice the e in whiskey *g*) in Jameson's distillery... think they didn't like me there since I was to only one of us four testers who decided that Jameson's not the best ;-) Well, hard job to be different *g*
Great! Wasnice to see some of my friends again and I really enjoyed having summer, sun and sunshine. Can't tell anyone how much I missed that! I thought I would not mind having bad weather and rarely any sunshine, but in fact, I do. I missed it, so layed all the time around in the sun, didn't mind about getting a sunburn. I needed the energy :-) And of course, having lovely food again, good bread, lactose free milk, no sandwiches or fried stuff...... Ahhh I wanna stay here and don't go back!
Next day trip outside Dublin. Unfortunately not a lot of trainees joined, but we had a great day anyway and could experience gorgeous landscape with typical Irish weather: rain and fog.... as usual. But I should not complain, otherwise the island would not be called "The Green Island", thinking of that helps a bit. By the way, the tour guide was funny and did a good job.
Great day outside Dublin. Howth is a really small suburb of Dublin, about 15 min with the local train, but worth to visit. It's where all the rich are living :-) And I saw a seal! Juhuuu, but didn't find my camera in my bag as quickly as the seal swam under water again :-(