/travel/ireland/Sligo, Sugarloaf, Christmas, New Years
So my sister asked me what happened to my blogging, which prompted me to fix it up and post something. November and December just kind of disappeared into busy-ness and life and stuff.
There's
some photos posted of a trip we took to Sligo in north-ish west Ireland. We climbed
up Knocknarea, a big hill/small mountain, where there's a c. 2500BC burial
mound. It's huge, and crazy. We also visited one of the largest stone age
burial grounds in the world. Stone circles and little Portal dolmen all over.
It's just in a big field, and they've rebuilt one of the mounds to look how
they thought it was original.
The next weekend I went hiking with a couple of co-workers,
and climbed Great Sugarloaf. It was a nice climb with a nice view back
over Dublin.
Christmas was good...it was strange to be away from my family, but I had a good time. Clare's relatives mostly got me food and kitchen stuff, which was remarkably successful given my general scrooginess. Our flat is pretty well kitted out now, just in time for the lease to run out. I had a little tussle over rent a while ago, so I'm not sure how amicable the landlord will be.
I've been trying to follow the Canadian election from here, but it's not easy to get the vibes. I haven't arranged my voting yet..need to do that soon. Still not sure who gets my tick mark. They're all crap.
I went back to Tullamore castle for New Years, and it was done up pretty slick. Wasn't in too much of a partying mood, but I never am for New Years.
I went for a run this morning; while I do it often enough that I can pretend that it has nothing to do with New Years resolutions, I'm not sure that would be entirely honest. There were a lot of people out, though...way more than I've seen before. Funn-ay.
Today Clare and I cycled out to Howth. It's one of the two main heads that form Dublin Bay, 'bout 40km round trip. We had a snack out there in the slowest restaurant in the universe, but it was tasty, so that was okay.
There's some kind of 70s week on RTE2. I'm watching Saturday Night Fever, and Taxi Driiver was on last night. Not movies I would normally watch. They seem alright. :-)
So there's an update. Hope folks had a good Christmas/holiday/New Years.
I'll be in Halifax, Saskatoon, Edmonton, San Francisco, and Chicago between January 26th and February 26th.
