our apartment

This is looking from one end to the kitchen end. The stove is on the right and the washing machine/dryer is on the left.  It is the same machine which is very strange.  After it washes, it starts to dry....well attempt...We bought a drying rack today.

This is showing the middle with the kitchen table in between the lamp and the shelves of dishes.

Now you can see the table. The love seat is on the other side.  We have 2 love seats.  The hot water and the heat are on only certain hours. This will be interesting as I am always cold!!

Our bedroom. Not one picture anywhere in the place.One bureau but 2 drawers under the bed.

This is the other end of the bedroom.  Our work area. At the moment David is using my computer since his died a couple of days before I arrived. Mart to the rescue!  Now you have an idea of where I live.

traveling to Northern Ireland

We started out renting a car and just wondering the country side. We started in Limerick and our first stop was Galway. WE actually just drove through as there was no place to park. We went along the docks that was full of coal and oil. Next onto Sligo. Again we didn't stop. - just roundabouts a couple of times.
The stop that we did was Donegal. A very nice place. We walked along the water edge. unfortunately everything was closed. So we walked along Donegal castle. This castle has been restored some. A cute little town. Our final stop for the night was in Andara which was off the beaten path towards the most western point.Our hotel was 183 years old. Can you imagine???

The next day,yesterday, we pushed on after going in every possible direction trying to find the right road out. We moved on up to LetterKenny and passed a tractor parade of about 150 tractors of all sizes! Next stop- Derry/Londonderry. We took our time here and went on a walking tour. The tour was in the walled city,about 30 acres. Here were many battles.
this is where Bloody Sunday took place. I was amazed to hear all that had happened here. I always thought most of the fighting was in Belfast.

Onto Belfast today to find out what happened there. Oh and we didn't even know when we crossed the border!! only sign was the speed changed to MPH from KM cheers :)

My 2nd day in Ireland.

Hi,
The 2nd day was an adventure...We decided to go downtown to pick up a few things..no problem riding the bus or even figuring out the money but....the stores are a different matter!

Nothing seemed logical and which is the way my mind works. We ended up in a store kind of like our wall mart-food and clothes together only mixed up and set up like a department store..They have no cloth napkins- don't have wash clothes--they don't use them.. But the biggest challenge was shopping for food.

You can find something like what you want, maybe, but again there is no logic in placement. for example spices are found in a couple of places--and not with the baking things- one kind was with the crackers and the other with condiments. The shortening comes in a foil in the refrigeration section and eggs aren't refrigerated. This is going to take me awhile to figure out.

Our dinner was suppose to be with meeting the students and having pizza but the pizzza was gone before everyone came. So we walked to dinner which was more than a mile down the road.

arriving in Ireland

Hi

My first day here I arrived at 6AM with about 15 mins. of sleep on the plane.
The day was cloudy with a little rain but then it stopped for the rest of the day. I couldn't find where I was living or David, and a course I didn't know where his cell phone number was or if I even brought it with me!

We (the security) found him and all was well. I think I was in the flat for about an a half an hour before I was on a walking tour of the campus...began to drag with no sleep or food.
David went to class and I proceeded to unpack, arrange, clean and hook up the computers. I was afraid if I quit doing something, I would never get up....

With everything settled, it was off to get something to eat. We were suppose to have pizza with the students in the village but when we got there 5 minutes late all the pizza was gone! So off walking a couple of miles for dinner. I have been broken in to the Irish ways!

Bed finally at 10:45 :)