dublin Posts

03Aug
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Updated: Dublin, Spain and “Fun Signs”

I’m almost done updating all my posts with pictures! I even added the fun signs I found to the appropriate page. Now all that’s left to do is Paris. But I’m tired and want to nap, and Paris wasn’t my favorite place, so I’ll do that later :)

Dublin: Winging It

Updated Spain Posts:

El Mar

A Nutella and Pants Sandwich

An Inflatable Raft

Ancient Ruins

Ongoing Observations

NEW Spain Posts:

Viva Espana

Festival of St. John (the Baptist)

Flying Solo

Museum of Catalan History

Misc Other Sites in Barcelona

Of course there are other adventures in Spain, but I didn’t have pictures to go with them, so those posts are not updated

Again, Paris stuff later. I’m tired of adding picslol

Enjoy :) :)

Posted by Caro in THE trip 2009, Travel and tagged with , ,
07Jul
1

Ongoing Observations

I have the craziest journey back home. It involves 3 flights, thus 2 layovers. Of course, one is 10 hours and the other is 7. I don’t know what I was thinking when I booked this, except maybe “who cares! I’m going to Spain!”

And now that I’m in the middle of a 30-some odd hour journey from Spain to the US, I’m bored. Solution: blog about the things I see lol

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Posted by Caro in Discoveries, Random, THE trip 2009, Travel, weird and tagged with , ,
05Jul
1

English

A couple of weeks ago J and I had a conversation about my skin tone. Although I am no more than 10% English, we decided that if I didn’t speak I could pass as a Brit. Random but ok cool.

For some reason I decided to share this info with Petra. Not 2 hours later I found myself in a souvenir shop in the janky bus station. The guy working there asked where I was from – England?

I smiled, thinking of these recent convos and said no. Ireland? No. Scotland? No. Though I was thinking tp myself this guy is doing a really good job of naming off 3 of the 5 countries that comprise my ethnic heritage lol.

He finally asked where I was from. I thought about saying Canada but realized Americans aren’t hated in Spain so I fessed up to my US passport. He was like “Oh America! (though he did look confused) Well then you must want …” and started pointing to some junk on the wall.

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04Jul
1

An Inflatable Raft

Upon our return from Paris, Petra noticed a man sleeping on an inflatable raft at the airport. The kind you would use in a pool or a lake or something to just float on. I’m not sure if she was joking or not, but she knew I have 2 long layover ahead of me, and said I should get one.

I totally wanted one. Yes, this is a BRILLIANT idea. I will just get one back in our little beach town.

Finding an inflatable raft became quite the mission. It seems the stores in our town sell pool noodles, swim wings, inner tubes, inflatable dolphins you can ride, and even inflatable pool sets if you’re weary of the beach. But no simple little blow up rafts to float on.

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22Jun
1

Winging It

When I travel I like to have a general sense of what I’m going to do. I usually buy some sort of book and pick out cool stuff. It helps me feel organized, which feels good. This was not the case on my way to Europe.

I pitched to J about my 9 hour layover in Dublin and came to realize I should go into town and sightsee. Mind you, this was decided the night before. So I few to Dublin, no guidebook, no plan, just vague idea of what I might do.

BEST layover ever! Turns out even though it was my first point of entry into the EU, I didn’t have to get all my luggage through customs. In fact, “customs” involved me walking through a door. I had been prepared to take a cab into town but found the tourism desk where I learned about the express bus. SCORE! I’m always down to save some money!

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Posted by Caro in Discoveries, Random, Rants and raves, THE trip 2009, Things to do, Travel, cool, fun and tagged with
17Jun
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Starting Out on THE Journey

Ok I’m super late to the game, but I’m going to start posting retroactive entries that chronicle the highlights (and low points) of my journey through the east coast and select parts of Europe. Hopefully I will catch up by the time I leave! Haha

Anyway these posts will mostly be from my phone and will more or less lack photos. I’ll try to add pictures as I can. Otherwise I will just edit from home.

Let the fun begin!

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