After Living and working in Dublin I can also conclude that the housing in Dublin is expensive, and if you have a reason to move there be prepared for the cost and difficulties of finding a place is all im saying, though i think that as a Nordic person, it is only for the experience and adventure of it all as the salary is generally very low compared to Denmark, Sweden and Norway, this is at least my experience and might be different if you find a job with more responsibilities and higher up in the chain of work.  

But it is not all work and negativity, the people there are super nice and i loved how they say thank you, in buses especially. 

So I will definitely go back to visit the people that I met, and see some more Irish nature and history. It is a great place for people who love hiking and have yet to visit the Giant Causeway and hike Ireland’s highest mountain which I only just walked near to because of my limited time in Killarney.   

Working and living in Dublin has also giving me a better sense of who I am and what I need to work on, which is why this experience has been one I couldn’t be without with all the bad and the good.

Kilkenny, Bray, Killarney, Howth and Galway

Killarney so while in Ireland I visited a few places, all had their charm. I absolutely fell in love with Killarney, the home of Ireland’s biggest saltwater lake and also their highest mountain. The small town charm with lots of cute eating places to find you dinner, lunch or maybe just a coffee or tea for a little from all the exploring you will be doing there.

Bray, the first place I visited its about 20 minutes outside of Dublin by train and went there to meet up with a bunch of CouchSurfers for a festival on the beach. Wasn’t there for long but had a great time.

Kilkenny was one of the first places I visited whilst there, it is famous for its medieval building and castle. It is also known as “Marble City”. I took the tourist bus taking me to the original Hollywood, the birthplace for the Hollywood we know in LA. We also visited the nation park in Glendalough, with the ruins of the monasterio de San Kevin. Here you can also spend a good day walking around the lake. We then found our way to Galway to see the famous cliffs of moher and then I got dinner in town before heading back to Dublin.

Howth the end station, 2 stops from where I ended up living for the majority of my time over there. There is a nice hike up the hill where you can get a view over Dublin and the ocean.

So thank you Ireland for the great experience and hope to see more of what I found that Ireland can offer.

Belfast is the capital of Northern Ireland, and throughout its modern history it has been a major commercial and industrial centre. Also the place where titanic was designed, build and launched.

When there I recommend to try the market first as it isn’t open for that long, it’s a great place to find your lunch and a lot of great stuff to browse through so watch out you might some money here.

After we went to take a black cap to learn some of Belfast history (told from the Catholics side) but a very good time and they also go through the Protestant side so you can see it but in a more drive through way. And just go to the tourist office near the city hall, as some of the offers on the internet is not to be trusted.

The city’s history have occasionally seen conflicts between different political fractions who favor different political arrangement between Ireland and Great Britain. Since Good Friday (Lang Fredag in Denmark) agreement on April 10th 1998, the city has been relatively peaceful and major redevelopment has occurred. It ended most of the violence of the troubles and ethno-nationalist conflict that has been happening since the late 1960s.

It is a wild story, and our guy spoke things like being imprisoned like it’s life which it was, luckily not so much anymore. Now he spoke with a very Irish accent which was great for the authentic of it but a bit difficult to understand. But we saw the freedom wall, the Murial and visited a museum where we saw a little of how was, how people snuck in cameras and newspapers.

After we went to the city hall but it was about to close so browsed trough pretty quick but had a very nice interior and then lastly Victoria square to see the view from top, this also gave us and idea of why all the souvenirs had two yellow cranes on them.

We didn’t get to see the titanic museum, which wasn’t high on the list as none of us was that big fans of the film I mean it was nice an all but very mainstream. And then you can also kiss a big fish statue thingy which is near the museum, and is supposed to give you wisdom, it is also called the salmon of knowledge and is based on the story “the boyhood deeds of Fionn.” About a fish that ate some hazelnuts that had fallen into the well of wisdom, and gained all the knowledge in the world. According to the tale, first person to eat the fish would inherit all of its knowledge. It was constructed in 1999 to celebrate the return of the fish to the river Lagan.

And that was my first trip to Belfast, a great trip with no expectations as we planned it a day before and ended up going with my at that time Danish colleague who were going back to Denmark to study.