More islands: Eire
High time to visit Ireland. Workshop in Dublin, about tests for various codes in astroph. community, was a nice two-day event, and I took some time for sightseeing.
As usual, without some big previous knowledge, so it is highly personal view on this city. My only "preparation", in a sense of knowledge anything about Dublin was Joyce, whom I read few years ago, "Dubliners" and "...young artist" book and Ulysses, which was my introduction to English (when you read it through, and try to catch the words, you learn a hell of English...although, it is more poetical than fiction kind of joy, reading it).
Here we left the Continent, I think bay of Le Havre was below, as we were following Seine river:
It was my first sight of England, still waiting for me. White rocks Albion here, glowing gold in the morning sun:
There was a nice day in Dublin, Svjetlana picked me from the airport and we went to the city. Finally meeting on her terrain, we managed to meet in last 10 years, after Zagreb, in...Frankfurt, Pag and Tokyo, finally Dublin :-) . Fate of physicists, or rather all gipsy-like scientists.
The river Liffey is part of the city, nicely incorporated into it:
I went through the Trinity College, it was a must-see walk, as is the Grafton street nearby.
Campus is what you expect of such place, really a classical sight
Especially I liked the warning plate, the last note is: "Radios may NOT be Played":
Side exit from the campus-from this comes 'he entered on small door to the world of Science'?
Street from Trinity College towards Marrion Sq. DIAS is located in the Marrion Sq., OLD Victorian or so building, very nice. Lacks functionality a bit for something like COSMOGRID project, but it is not surprising, it is other generation of architecture.
Nice door all around square are famous, DIAS also has its horse in this race, although no fame lived in this house (as in some other around the sq.)
In the evening, driving 50 min to Svjetlana's house, I had chances to try a bit of ordinary Dublin life-here night impression-a bit impresionistic, but it's done by my palmtop camera, sorry for the bad quality.
Bus is double decker of London type, nice view from it, every ride is sightseeing tour
I like the colors on Dublin streets
Catholic country...has to take care of it's youth...brrr!
Guinness IS different here than anywhere else, I do not like it in mainland Europe at all, but the one I had here was excellent beer, almost as good as what was sold for 'dark beer' in "U Fleka" in Prague some...16 years ago.
We did not drink it a lot, only one visit in a bar just behind DIAS, but there'll be next times, I am sure. I like the place.
That you would not think I only did sightseeing and Guinness drinking, some proofs of work there. Pleasant discussions with nice people.
It was 50 min to Svjetlana's house, if lucky not to stuck in traffic jam. Traffic in Dublin is a nighmtmare. We make jokes about Southerners, but in Dublin they were not able to make tunnel under the city...for all the vechicles. For trucks, which are (going to ferry to the harbour) pain for this city, they made it...too low!
Sure, periferies of the city are much cheaper to buy a house than the city itself, and they build it obviously in the terrains of factories etc., as I saw in Melbourne also:
Yes, they look the same, as you see in movies, 200 or so houses around and along the lane looking the same, even to the detail of...this what is behind the house. People? Not the same, fortunately, at least not from appearance, not yet.
In Dublin I found really a great mixture of races and nationalities in the street, this was nice sight after rather monotonous mainland Middle-Europe. It seems I should think of this term as in USA is Mid-West. In the streets you could hear Polish and Russian almost equally often as English. Irish? Is it something to eat? Even in the train stations, names are given in English first, and then, in barely visible yellow colour, in Irish. Someone commented that Irish gave up their language after they managed in their fight for independence from England. Good for us, tourists, but for them...I do not know. But probably natural step in...dying out of an Nation-and incorporating it in some greater entity. Which? European? I would not say. It will have lots of slavic, yellow and Indian blood, from this what I saw on the streets of Dublin. And good :-)
As usual, without some big previous knowledge, so it is highly personal view on this city. My only "preparation", in a sense of knowledge anything about Dublin was Joyce, whom I read few years ago, "Dubliners" and "...young artist" book and Ulysses, which was my introduction to English (when you read it through, and try to catch the words, you learn a hell of English...although, it is more poetical than fiction kind of joy, reading it).
Here we left the Continent, I think bay of Le Havre was below, as we were following Seine river:
It was my first sight of England, still waiting for me. White rocks Albion here, glowing gold in the morning sun:
There was a nice day in Dublin, Svjetlana picked me from the airport and we went to the city. Finally meeting on her terrain, we managed to meet in last 10 years, after Zagreb, in...Frankfurt, Pag and Tokyo, finally Dublin :-) . Fate of physicists, or rather all gipsy-like scientists.
The river Liffey is part of the city, nicely incorporated into it:
I went through the Trinity College, it was a must-see walk, as is the Grafton street nearby.
Campus is what you expect of such place, really a classical sight
Especially I liked the warning plate, the last note is: "Radios may NOT be Played":
Side exit from the campus-from this comes 'he entered on small door to the world of Science'?
Street from Trinity College towards Marrion Sq. DIAS is located in the Marrion Sq., OLD Victorian or so building, very nice. Lacks functionality a bit for something like COSMOGRID project, but it is not surprising, it is other generation of architecture.
Nice door all around square are famous, DIAS also has its horse in this race, although no fame lived in this house (as in some other around the sq.)
In the evening, driving 50 min to Svjetlana's house, I had chances to try a bit of ordinary Dublin life-here night impression-a bit impresionistic, but it's done by my palmtop camera, sorry for the bad quality.
Bus is double decker of London type, nice view from it, every ride is sightseeing tour
I like the colors on Dublin streets
Catholic country...has to take care of it's youth...brrr!
Guinness IS different here than anywhere else, I do not like it in mainland Europe at all, but the one I had here was excellent beer, almost as good as what was sold for 'dark beer' in "U Fleka" in Prague some...16 years ago.
We did not drink it a lot, only one visit in a bar just behind DIAS, but there'll be next times, I am sure. I like the place.
That you would not think I only did sightseeing and Guinness drinking, some proofs of work there. Pleasant discussions with nice people.
It was 50 min to Svjetlana's house, if lucky not to stuck in traffic jam. Traffic in Dublin is a nighmtmare. We make jokes about Southerners, but in Dublin they were not able to make tunnel under the city...for all the vechicles. For trucks, which are (going to ferry to the harbour) pain for this city, they made it...too low!
Sure, periferies of the city are much cheaper to buy a house than the city itself, and they build it obviously in the terrains of factories etc., as I saw in Melbourne also:
Yes, they look the same, as you see in movies, 200 or so houses around and along the lane looking the same, even to the detail of...this what is behind the house. People? Not the same, fortunately, at least not from appearance, not yet.
In Dublin I found really a great mixture of races and nationalities in the street, this was nice sight after rather monotonous mainland Middle-Europe. It seems I should think of this term as in USA is Mid-West. In the streets you could hear Polish and Russian almost equally often as English. Irish? Is it something to eat? Even in the train stations, names are given in English first, and then, in barely visible yellow colour, in Irish. Someone commented that Irish gave up their language after they managed in their fight for independence from England. Good for us, tourists, but for them...I do not know. But probably natural step in...dying out of an Nation-and incorporating it in some greater entity. Which? European? I would not say. It will have lots of slavic, yellow and Indian blood, from this what I saw on the streets of Dublin. And good :-)
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