It’s been a busy week since I left Belfast, and leaving Belfast proved no small challenge.

Last Monday Carol left for Prague for the New Year celebration. I too was supposed to depart, but because I had stayed up the entire night before scouring the Internet for flight deals to Bangkok and various other travel tips I stayed behind an extra day. Sooo… Tuesday morning I woke up bright and early and headed down to the store to grab the rest of the money I owed Carol (she spotted me to buy my flights) and to get some batteries. Getting back…

Alright… so I think I’m about to rush the computer with such force that my noggin and the monitor will disprove all known physics regarding two objects occupying the same time and space.

I was up all night (no not half the night) trying to sort out aspects of my trip. Things got pretty complicated for a while there.. but I think I’ve got it sorted now.

I had (wrongly) assumed that ferries operate frequently from Ireland to France. Turns out this is only true during the warmer season. The last ferry leaves port on January 2nd. That was ok though as…

What do you call two Canadians in Dublin? Doesn’t matter, they’re too drunk to care.
So, what an interesting time Dublin proved to be.

I arrived Friday afternoon on a 16 quid/return bus from Belfast. The ride down went quickly, and it was with much amusement I sat and listened to some very loud locals sitting beside and behind me (I swear one day I’m going to just sit beside the cute girl that is ALWAYS on the bus before me, but because there’s so many open seats, I just sit alone and end up having some whiny, smelly or loud old…

Yep.. that’s about as creative as I can get for a subject line right now.

Just wanted to post quickly and say that photos will be coming soon (well, when I get back to Belfast). Dublin has been awesome. Seeing Julie and Gerard has been great! And I met a very cool, very cute girl named Joey that is assisting in showing me what Dublin is all about.

Ok… gotta run, only 2 minutes left on my Internet cafe time.

Peace.

Hey, so today officially marks the One Month Away point. And let me be the first to say, it’s flown by.

I figured that perhaps now would be a good time to share some of the wisdom I’ve learned so far.

A) Travellers are a community unto themselves. It is like a club and once you join, you are a member for life.
B) For some reason dryers never caught on in the UK.
C) Fortunately radiators did, and so when visiting someone for the first time, you usually get a great glimpse of their gitch collection laid out to dry.
D) Though you are…

A panoramic view of Belfast. A little handy photoshop work and presto!

Well, I’m about four days into settling into Ireland for the month and I’m having quite the time!

Friday night Carol took me to her friend’s place out in the country where I ate TONS of curry and drank LOADS of Guinness. I’ve waited until Ireland to have a drop of Ireland, and with the amount of pubs I’ve visited since my journey began, it’s not been easy. We basically just sat around and shot the shit, which was quite cool.

Saturday Carol and I got up “early” (I think we…