DUBLIN (Ireland)
10 July - 1 August
1998
I spent three weeks in Ireland with the
summer school. My accomodation was in the UCD Village, a magnificent campus near Dublin. There I met a lot of other students, expecially from Spain.
I was enjoying so much in the campus, that I didn't do a lot of excursions; I
just visited Powercourts Gardens and Kilmainham Jail with the school. I also
did't take any photo in Dublin.
UCD Village
UCD Village provides budget self-catering shared apartments,
located on campus at UCD (University College Dublin) and available for booking
throughout August.
Accommodation: Each apartment is
fully self-contained, with 3 or 4 single bedrooms, each having a work desk and
wardrobe/storage area, a generously sized living and kitchen/dining area and 2
bathrooms. All bed linen and a hand towel is provided. You can book an entire
aparment or just individual rooms, on a room-only basis (does not include
breakfast).
Location: Situated 4km south of
the city centre, on a regular bus route. Direct bus service to and from the City
Centre: take Bus 46A which leaves regularly from city centre (Fleet St, Nassau
St, St Stephens Green) to destination Belfield/UCD. Some 46A routes leave from
Dublin Airport and go to UCD via city centre.
Powerscourt Gardens
Located at Enniskerry, one of the worlds great gardens,
Powerscourt Estate is situated twelve miles south of Dublin in the foothills of
the Wicklow Mountains. The garden was begun in the 1740s and stretches out over
45 acres. It is a sublime blend of formal gardens, sweeping terraces, statuary
and ornamental lakes together with secret hollows, rambling walks, walled
gardens and over 200 variations of trees and shrubs.
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KILMAINHAM JAIL
Built in 1796. Witness to Ireland's turbulent passage
from the late eighteenth to early twentieth century. Prisoners from the
United Irish Rebellion of 1796, the Emmet Rebellion of 1803, the Great
Famine of 1845 to 1851, the Young Ireland Rebellion of 1848, the
Fenian Rebellion of 1867, the Land War of the 1880s, the Easter Rising of
1916, the War of Independence and the Irish Civil War were held and often
executed here. The jail is
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Spanish cooking tortillas - Franko during the transformation...
On the coast near
Dublin with Naiara
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"Aqui' estamos en el invidiable sport center pub rodeadas de
los italianos, y como no, unas cuantas botellas vacias para hacer ambiente" |
Naiara,Saioa,
Maria, Iratxe - Pedro, Franko, JuanManuel, Alvaro, Eduardo
My English School Class
The
goodbye
party
