Bike....

Pub: 0 ; Alcohol Units: 0; Activities: Bought a Bike

Finally, I've bought a bike in Ireland, hopefully I should be soon be able to cycle to work... but not tomorrow because of the Indoor Climbing Initiation and not Thursday because there's Salsa....
I've also realised than there is a lot of topics I want to discuss in this blog:
GAA, Hurling, Gaelic/Irish, W.B.Yeats, Irish 1916 events, sailing....

I discover this fantastic website : http://www.chronique-gaelique.com/index.html while I was trying to find the origin of the famous french song "Les lacs du Connemara" from Sardou ( just to prove that Michel Sardou never put a foot in Ireland...)

Killarney Lakes ....

Sunday
Pub: 2; Alcohol Units: 3 (1 Guinness, 2 Murphys); Activities: Bicycle, He or She, Seesighting
Heading to Killarney with M&N... rent some bike and cycle around Killarney Lakes...
Ross Castle:

Muckross Abbey:

The Waterfall:



There was an exhibit of vintage tractor/farmer machine:

Some quite old:

On the lake watching the making-of of a ninja movie....

Evening: Restaurant and few pubs in Killarney

Night: youth Hostel without any swedish girl ....



Monday (Bank Holiday)
Pub: 0; Alcohol Units: 0, Activities: Seesighting, beach, car

Leaving Killarney, through the Upper Lake and the Gap of Dunloe (Black Lake), and then afternoon on the beach.... Kells (Part of the ring of Kerry)

Where some people enjoyed wrestling:

• Global Thematic of the Week-End: SpongeBob SquarePants
• Things learned:
  
1. Marsupials are mammals.
2. Chicago is not near New York
3. Women are complicated
4. Do goldfishes have a memory longer than 3 seconds ? Yes...Busted myth according to the Mythbusters
5. Claude Francois did not write the song "Cette Annee la", the original song is "Oh What a night" written by Robert Gaudio and Judy Parker.

• Unanswered questions:
• Is the memory of a goldfish a conscient act or an inconscient one ? (Asked by Patrick)
• Quotation of the day:
  "I reject your reality and substitute my own!" – Adam Savage from Mythbusters

Paella....

Pub: 0; Alcohol Units: 2-3 (sangria, vine); Activity: ??

Nice and international party at Laurent House to celebrate his wedding. And thanks to Ruben who cooked a fabulous paella....

Fun, when I came back from, I check out Flickr and saw that someone put a comment on one of my Lego pic, and linked it to the Adventures of the dinosaur and the robot.... LOL !!!!

And here's the blog of the guy who posted the comment: http://dunechaser.blogspot.com/

Tomorrow Killarney....

Lego - Day

Pub: 0; Alcohol Units: 0; Activities: Shopping, Garden, Lego building
Main activity of my day: build LEGO numero 7903.


UPDATE photos removed from FLICKR

FYI:

• LEGO has a new service Lego Factory, you build your model within a CAO software and then you can order the pieces you need to build it in real.
• Mindstorms .... are coming this summer.
• LDRAW a free CAD software for Lego
• Adult Lego fans: http://www.legofan.org/brickjournal/
• Stop Motion Movies with Lego http://www.brickfilms.com/

Except that, today was a lot of shopping, and I've started to grow some plants in the garden (mint, thyme...)

Lazy day

Pub: 0 ; Alcohol Unit: 0 (good friday) ; Activity: Mown my lawn.

A bit of culture with some of the differents local Beers you can drink in Ireland:

• Beamish : stout, Brewery: Beamish and Crawford (Cork)
• Guinness : stout, Brewery: St James Gate (Dublin, Diageo)
• Murphy (Murphy's Irish Stout): stout, Brewery: Cork
• Smithwick's: Brewery: Smithwicks (Kilkenny)
• Kilkenny: Brewery: Smithwicks (Kilkenny)

Some beermat (coaster):




And finally tonight TV movie: Ghostbusters , in summary: "Do not cross the streams !"

Something like Bridget Jones...

Pub: 2 (Daffy's +++, Glen Tavern ++) ; Alcohol units: 0 (yes, 2 orange juice) ; Activities: Salsa

New idea for the blog, copied from BJ.... see where it ends....
About alcohol, irish people tend to take the booze quite seriously : MEAS ?!?!

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