Let's go to the Beach!

Dear all,

now I've been already for a bit more than 4 weeks roaming through Dublin.

Friday evening started with a proper pub visit at O'Reilly's to which my fellow German interns and I went. We met a few nice Irish guys with whom we shared the table.

On Saturday I headed to Dún Laoghaire, as one of our standard busses always drives there.
Blessed with sunny weather, I was ready to explore Dún Laoghaire's vast piers and it's lovely city centre.

 I walked along the eastern pier and had to notice the many Eddy's Ice Cream stores. I also got myself a scoop at the tip of the Eastern Pier. I ended the day with some Singaporean Noodles at Mao's.

On Sunday I more or less spontaneously decided to do the Bray - Greystones Cliff Walk and therefore headed to Bray with the DART.

I was really excited to finally see some real deal beach in Ireland, though Bray's beach sure is pebbly! But alas, I helped myself with some fish and chips, sat on the beach and listened to some live performed Elvis cover songs. After that, the real adventure began - roughly about 6 km along Ireland's eastern coastline and some nice sunny weather. By the time I was about to reach Greystones, I had to hurry a bit, as I was supposed to meet up with some fellow German interns to see Suicide Squad in Dublin's heart around evening. 

In the end I got sunburned again and made it in time back for the movie with some time left, that I used to do some household chores :)

Bray's Beach

View on Greyestones

Greystones

Greystones Beach

Oh and I got some really cool tasks at work as well! I am currently working on a SEO and a Marketing Campaign with another French intern and an Indian colleague. I was also finally able to hold my presentation about paperless offices and got treated with some pizza by my mentor.

Until the next weekend,
F

Returning to the World of Wizardry

Dear all,

this weekend has been a bit less packed with activities.

After spending the week with transferring business card data into an Excel spreadsheet and scanning another few invoices that I found whilst bringing some sort of order into a few other offices, I went to the Dundrum Shopping Centre. I explored some clothing stores being tempted by the huge sales signs. I have to admit that I only found some interesting things at Urban Outfitters and HMV ( I really wish that we would have the latter in Berlin as well...). My last stop was then at Jamie's Italian - one of the best decisions so far, haha. I chose the Homemade Lemonade, a small Prawn Linguine and Raspberry Rippled Pavlova.

As I didn't carry my DSLR camera with me, the foodie pics are a bit more blurrier this time, sorry guys!

Saturday turned out to be the most exciting day this week. I only had plans to go to the Phoenix Park, Dublin's biggest one at which one can also find Dublin's Zoo. As I was passing Hodges Figgis, a rather large bookstore, with the 46A bus, I saw that they would held a Harry Potter Party that day for the release of J. K. Rowling's newest book and that it could be preordered it with 50 % off. Therefore I spent less time at the Phoenix Park (which also couldn't completely satisfy me) and drove back to the bookstore to preorder my copy.

It was quite surprising how many people came for the event, but than again, I don't think we had something of this sort in Berlin so far. As the store itself became more and more crowded, one could engage in some activities that the staff had prepared. They hold a small Quidditch game, an owl race a quiz and costume competition whilst one could enjoy a local band until it turned 0 am. Around that time, the first copies found their new, happy owners. I ended up missing my last bus and had to walk home again... (though it was completely worth it!)

I spent my Sunday again in the city centre doing some shopping and eating an ice cream at Gino's Gelato (Raspberry Yoghurt, Macaron, Pomegranate Sorbet) before I went to the cinema with two other fellow interns of my group to watch Star Trek Beyond.

I'll probably spent this Bank Holiday updating my blogs, reading Goethe and watching The Returned S2/Nana.

Until then,

F