I NEED to go back to Ireland

So I really don't know where to start with my blog, so I'm just going to go through what's happened chronologically.

6 hour layover in Chicago

- Nothing eventful

- 4 hours into layover I realized I packed all my socks into

the suitcase I wrapped and couldn't really open until Prague

- an hour before takeoff Stephanie Mah (the good intelligent friend she is) reminds me on MSN that there is in fact a time difference between Calgary and Chicago and that my laptop time was incorrect and I pack up and hurry to my terminal

Dublin

DAY 1

-Take a quick catnap to recover from jetlag

- Hit up Dublin Castle, Chester Beatty Library, St. Stephen's Green, and Grafton Street (to buy socks, they were even on sale!)

- It's raining non-stop all day so I prepare myself for a wet week only to be pleasantly surprised by 3 whole days of non-stop sunshine

DAY 2

-The National Museum, the National Library, the National Gallery, Trinity College

DAY 3

-take the train to the town of Howth which is north of Dublin along the coast

-do the 4 hour "easy" hike on the cliffs behind the town of Howth

DAY 4

- Guinness Brewery, Custom House

- So I tried to go to Kilmainham Gaol which is an infamous prison on the outskirts of Dublin. Now my guidebook called this part of town "salubrious" which I took to mean "colorful" or like "eccentric". Actual meaning = SUPER SKETCH. I walked about halfway there and got sufficiently sketched out enough to start walking back towards the non-sketchy part of town. I turned around after I got to a mental institution. No joke.

My favorite picture of the trip was my view from the top of the Cliff of Howth where I took an hour long break and had my "picnic" lunch.

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I will post more later about my adventures thus far in Praha.