Update

Hi, I've been pretty slack lately in writing anything about what I've been doing and in replying to emails. So this will have to suffice for both of those shortcomings.

 

I've been working a lot lately, 9.5 hours a day on average, because work is paying overtime and I am trying to save as many euros as I can at the moment. I even worked one Saturday (pauses for gasps from the audience).

 

I've been to a comdey club in the Temple Bar area a few times now. It's pretty funny, though sometimes the comedians speak too quickly so I can't understand what they are saying, but they still sound cool with their Irish accents.

 

Last Thursday Rose (whom I met on the Pamplona trip) came over to Dublin and we went out and 'tied one on' (that's apparently the Victorian way of saying had a few drinks). On Saturday I got up early and watched a game of league at the Aussie pub in town, it was Melbourne v Manly so not that exciting but it was good to see a game anyway. Then I went down to Kilkenny for the rest of the weekend. It's a nice little town, though it was pretty quiet on Sunday - all the shops were shut except for the pubs (it's Ireland after all) and we didn't really feel like drinking at 11:00 in the morning.

 

Tomorrow I'm going to watch the Dragons smash the Broncos in the first round of the finals!! Then in the afternoon I'm hopefully going to see a bit of the 'Liffey Swim' - people apparantly swim in the River Liffey (which passes smack bang through the middle of Dublin). Not so amazing that people swim in a river you might think, but there is a rumour that Guiness is made from the river water because they are both the same colour! Though Guiness smells a lot nicer than the Liffey does. That's just a convoluted way of saying that I'm going to watch what kind of people choose to swim in a disgustingly polluted river. On Saturday afternoon I'm hoping to buy a new camera and then I'm going out with some friends Saturday night.

 

Next Wednesday I am flying to London and bussing it down to Munich in Germany for the opening weekend of Oktoberfest (and don't worry mum - I'm not going for the drinking, I'm going for the cultural experience). I'm going down there with a few people I met on my trip around Europe and a few others I know are going to be there too so it should be a really good time.

 

I get back from that on a Tuesday night and then the next Saturday Aimee is coming to visit me in Dublin which will be good fun.

 

That's about all about what I've been doing / will be doing soon. Now to go and reply to some emails...