Some traveling
- Last Friday: took the train up to Belfast. Didn’t stay very long (though I did get to see the most bombed hotel in Europe). It looks fairly similar to Dublin, except that it’s smaller, it has a slightly darker shade of grey, they use those funny British money, and their accent is funny as well (although I like it a bit better than ye aulde dubspeak).
- After Belfast, the next destination was Rathlin – this small, rainy island in the middle of nowhere – home of the Jigs and Rigs 2007 music festival (no link for that, but it was pretty cool). When I first heard about it I somehow compared it with Sziget, but this this was much smaller and retreated. Fun, friendly people, and so much rain that the Dublin weather now seems completely reasonable.
- I took a late speedboat back from Rathlin on Sunday, and this put me in the novel position of being stuck in Ballycastle with no way to leave (until the morning when the buses were running again) and nowhere to sleep (every single B&B, hotel, hostel, motel, whatever in the city was completely booked out). It all worked out when the owner of one of the B&B’s I tried took pity on me (thanks again, Ms. Jennifer :) ) and let me sleep on a couch for a tenner and the promise that I’ll have breakfast at 8:00 then fuck off (because “I’ve got the place full of guests”).
- I’m writing all this from Mountain View, CA – I just arrived after what has probably been my longest and least precise Atlantic crossing ever. I could rant forever about Delta Airlines, the wisdom of setting up US Immigration & Border Control in Ireland (!) or the various other things that made the trip last more than 6 hours longer than intended, but hey, I made it into one piece and I have all my luggage with me :) I’ll be staying here until the 27th of this month.
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Oy… Curajos Bill dacă a stat la cel mai bombardat hotel :P
Interested about that rant… The least precise Atlantic crossing? :P Cum aşa? Aţi vizitat şi America de Sud? Sau aţi ajuns prin Canada?
Hello.. was hunting the internet for rathlin images & found your blog, hope you enjoyed yourself on the island & all is well in Sunny California!
http://www.myspace.com/wwwthesessioncom
ooops sorry, not spam – if you take the “reCAPTCHA” off the link above you will find media and images from Rathlin Jigs & Rigs 07
Fixed – sorry for that, the captcha plugin screws up sometimes.
Thanks for the link :) I was wondering if there was anything with more info about Jigs & Rigs.