Category: travel
For as far back as I can remember, my mom has been a fan of Waterford crystal, so we were pretty excited that our tour of Ireland included a trip to the Waterford Crystal Factory. Fun fact: Look at the Waterford Crystal logo (below) – you’ll notice that the seahorse’s tail ((A seahorse was chosen […]
What trip to Ireland would be complete with kissing the Blarney Stone? Yes, I know that it’s a very tourist-y thing to do. But seeing as I was a tourist and all, I didn’t have a problem with that ((See also: this photo.)). The story goes that if you kiss the Blarney Stone, you receive the […]
Sometimes, it’s hard to believe I’m of Irish descent because, in addition to not being a fan of Guinness, I’m also not much of a whiskey drinker ((I *want* to like scotch. Because it seems so sophisticated. But that peaty flavour – gah!)). I did, however, develop a taste for Irish coffees while on my […]
The thing about beer in Ireland is that if you don’t drink stout, you are SOL. Wherever you go, you are guaranteed to find Guinness on tap, but if you don’t want to drink Guinness, your options are basically shitty American beers ((i.e., Bud or Coors Light)) or Heineken. In the southern part of the […]
One of my favourite things of all the things we did in Ireland was visiting the Cliffs of Moher in County Clare. The photos just cannot do justice to the spectacular views of the 700 ft shear drop into the Atlantic Ocean. You really just have to go there to see if for yourself. My […]
My frogs, as you know, have a castle in their tank. But I had never had the opportunity to stay in a castle until I got to Ireland, where I stayed in no fewer than three of them. I guess they had a lot of castles in Ireland and since they are no longer needed […]
One of the nicknames of Ireland is “The Isle of Saints and Scholars”, due to its monastic culture and missionary work to spread Christianity to Britain and continental Europe in the Middle Ages. Which I had no idea was a thing that happened. This would be a trend for me throughout my trip to Ireland […]
I think of all the museums I visited on my holidays, I liked the British Museum the most. I got to see the freaking Rosetta Stone! And this awesome scarab: A smaller version of which my aunt bought for me: I think I’ll make it into a necklace. We also went to the Victoria & Albert […]
I noticed pretty much as soon as I got to England that they use the word “cock” a lot. My first experience was getting on the Piccadilly line at Heathrow and seeing this sign: Because of where our hotel was, we took the Piccadilly line a fair bit and so repeatedly heard that we were […]
This is the first of a bunch of blog postings that I’ve been putting together from my trip. Rather than going through chronologically, as I’ve already done a quick chronology of the trip, I’ve done these more detailed postings by themes ((Or by clever titles that I thought of and then came up with themes […]