New Pad

Last weekend was a busy weekend. First off, i turned 27 (on the 27th) years old. I think 27 is one of those inconcequencial years, and 28 and 29 will be the same...their importance is darfed by the big three-zero. Anyway, we drank lots of vodka and went to a fancy nightclub. But the main event over the weekend was moving out of The Happy House and into a new apartment. Two of my spanish roommates are leaving for spain (for good) this weekend and i thought it would be good time to make the swap as well. Without paying extra rent, i've managed to upgrade to a pimp apartment were i have my own bedroom/washroom, extra-king sized bed in a modern building in the centre of town. The area is a little more dodgy than my previous upscale neighborhood but i've also managed to cut my commute to work by 20 minutes in both directions. My new roommate is Soeren, a german dude who works for IBM in sales. All is well in dublin. Vistors welcome as always :)

The Burren Way & The Cliffs of Moher

So blogger, the blog engine i use to create my wonderful blogs has a new beta version that i've upgraded to. The interface looks slightly different, the spell-checker is improved (taken from gmail) and publishing is ultra fast...they also have some new way of customizing the look 'n feel of your blog...maybe it's time for a make-over. The interesting this is that they force you to consolidate your gmail and blogger accounts. This is cool, i imagine they will be able to come up with some need stuff once they have the ability to share data between the two services.

I just realized i haven't blogged for a few weeks...so much to talk about. Lets start with a long weekend a few weeks ago. Anna and i packed our bags with polish food, our tent, sleeping bag (yes only one), and headed out for the west coast of Ireland where we walked The Burren Way. This is one of Ireland's famous walks and is a total of 45km and it took us a little over two days to complete. The walk started in a small town called Ballyvaghn where we stocked up on some extra food at an outdoor market. We then spent the day walking through a desolate area called the Burren...think, small round mountains formed by lava with lots of cracks in the ground. That night we camped on the final hill/mountain. The next day we walked down from the Burren to a cute town called Toolin where we stopped for pints of guinness before continuing on along the Cliffs of Moher. These are the cliffs you see in all the Ireland postcards and TV commercials. Absolutely breath-taking...the highest cliffs in europe. The second night we watched the sunset over the atlantic with a group of billy goats. In the morning, we woke up to see the cliffs one last time and hiked for a few more hours to the finishing town. This was the first time to really test my new hiking backpack...a world of a difference compared to the crap i was hiking with in south america.

Another weekend was spent in poland at a wedding...nothing terribly interesting to report except for the fact that i drank more vodka in that night than in any previous week of my life.


Collecting flowers as we go


Famous Cliffs


My little pony


errr...green field