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An evening with the Belfast Giants


This week was up on the previous day and again amazingly uneventful. Yesterday I was with Shannon (our new roommate from March, who lives until further notice once in a college dorm) and Corinne in Belfast, where we looked at a hockey game against the Belfast Giants, the Edinburgh Captials. I must admit: Compared to football Hockey is a lot more eventful. It makes it much more fun to watch because it is much faster and it takes hours not felt until a goal is scored, even if the game according to the Canadian pro-fans that I've seen the game thought that the players under- played at NHL level have (NHL is the professional hockey league in the U.S. and Canada). Again, I have once again taken more Canadian than Irish culture, even if we have seen the rest of the Ireland rugby game against England in a pub in Belfast (Score: IRL 20-16 ENG). Incidentally, one should be careful where you cheer for whom, when it comes to England against Ireland in Belfast. But back to the game: Because that unfortunately did not as planned. Because it was found in the second third of a hole in the ice that is unfortunately the game had to be canceled. Over time, we then had in any case we still have gone into a Belfast club.

Corinne and Shannon in front of a Canadian pub in Belfast

My overall impression of Belfast is very positive, I'll stop by in any case, once there, for Belfast is not only beautiful, but also from people you meet very nice. What seems a little strange is the "Little-Big-Ben", which you see here in the photo, because the acts a bit like a copy of London, although the Northern Irish version is wrong. Also, the Replica of the Millennium Eye, the giant Ferris wheel that one finds in London on the Thames, there is a smaller version in Belfast. But also a replica of a Dublin landmark, we have found, you could say that Belfast is a mixture of Dublin and London, although one should never say such a thing while you're sitting there in a pub.

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Five months

Today I am going for five months in Dublin and that is, for most of you, and you see me again in four months. This is a nice feeling, especially because I know that it will be summer when I come home. Even if the Winter here can not compete with the hardness of the winter in Germany, it is still less pleasant. Whatever the case, I thought of my five-month I list here at once, which to me in Dublin's underground (well, bus ...) so everything is back to driving. Here are the top 5 (which are in the back seat found excrement excluded from the competition):

number 5 : Every morning, occupying the first four rows in the first of two buses, which I suppose to work. Ireland Gipsys (nice: Travellers). Many of them speak organized beggars, the perfect English, but which is the only English word "change" (change) is on the lips. Thanks to the somewhat stricter odor they fill the ranks and always alone.

number 4: I once sat on the bus, when a 25-year-old has apparently been dredged 16-year unremitting. I will not play in detail below, has spoken of what exactly the guy, because we want to maintain the decorum. But she was "not amused" and he proposed to her than to fly to his home in the Caribbean "to the beautiful white beach" they refused with thanks. One of the few moments on the bus where it is sometimes worth the music off.

number 3: One thing that can not be missing in the top 5, is Lucas's and my meeting with a somewhat drunken Irishmen older generation, who told us about the question of our origins, that the Messerschmitt was great, Hitler had hidden all right and the Irishman with joy Nazis, because we bombed the unpopular British. The latter is true even. Ireland was officially neutral, but unofficially has not only a Nazi found protection here ...

number 2: The horse. There is a woman who takes the same bus every morning as I get to work (the second time) and since one and a half years, I have my say on demand, has an incredible Räusperzwang. So you can see how some passenger moves ever the place if they are behind them sets and starts to cough. It is even so popular that it sounds for their siginifikanten the nickname "The Horse" received from our team.

No. 1: Secret smokers. Time and again it happens that you can have in the upper floors with heavy smokers, the pitch to drive in the bus who think they remain unobserved if they infect one. Most of it does not seem to care. Probably because it overlaps Busgeruch terrible, but it is a nice change to see if one is caught by those times. Thanks for the surveillance cameras on buses!

That was my update for this week, tomorrow I upload a few photos of our House party tonight high. I wish you a great week.

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And I lost my heart to Galway ...

Ok, the title is from the song "Girl Galyway" stolen, albeit slightly altered. But it is true, Galway's great. But more on that later. Since I have not written two weeks, I have to go back a course for the first time a bit: In the period in which I have not written, I was at the doctor twice. (The first time, more or less a false diagnosis, the second time my beloved angina, which I visited once again). These two doctor visits to Polish doctors in my area have cost me about € 200, I get replaced, but fortunately. By the way, about German Dublin: When my doctor asked me where I come from because, Sven is not a British or Polish name (I will explain my name, always with the sentence "As only seven without the first e") and I told her that I was from Germany, she started broken, but good German to talk to me ... Incidentally, the name Wasserthal in English is really impractical. But, since I had to learn to work anyway more or less the military alphabet in English as in German: Whiskey Echo Sierra Sierra Alfa Romeo Tango Hotel Alfa Lima. But only at the margins.

Last Friday, I then Niki and Luci picked up from the airport. The weekend we spent more or less with celebrations and a little sightseeing. Monday, however, are We drove for three days to Galway. Galway is about two and a half hours and you take the bus once completely around the island from the east to the west coast. Buses are way better cars here because the rail network is not developed great and the buses cost and often. Locally we were in a really cheap hostel located right in the center. Galway has a population of about 75,000 inhabitants and is the third largest city in Ireland. The city center is really nice and once one is there, you should also get out a little confidence, because it is the landscape has to offer in this corner lot. So we can lead us on our second day in Galway, the Aran Islands visit, which are full of walls from the Celtic period to which I have found on the universal source of knowledge of our time on Wikipedia, the following statement:



"The Aran Islands are of small-scale gardens shaped, surrounded by stone walls. These gardens were on the previously barren rock islands created in arduous work. This was stranded kelp and sand spread on the floor. was through the walls prevents the extracted soil from the next rain or storm washed away or blown away was.

The walls can be admired in these photos:



On the second evening we have with other "swaps" (term for people who work and travel ) make a hit in Lokalbar. There were three German, one from the states and twenty Canadians. Canadians seem to have a special connection to Ireland, presumably because their families either come from Holland, France, Ireland or Scotland. In addition, Canadians are generally more active than people traveling from the States. Wednesday, we moved back and Thursday I had visits from angina, which has kept me around all day in bed. But thanks to the expert handling of my Polish doctor I was Friday on his feet again and so we have to Corinne the "Dandelion", a club in the city center paid a visit. On Saturday, we have Jo's Burger paid a visit, the best burger place in Ireland. And we all agree, a better burger had no one of us.



Now it is Sunday and tomorrow it goes back to my routine. I wish you a nice week and thaw to Germany!

Oh, and here finally: