DUBLIN =)

Last weekend in March Roni (tudi Slovenka) and I went to Dublin.

In the morning I managed to wake up and catch the bus :). At the airport they decided to check my luggage which is always fun. Maybe more for me than them... Anyway...she - the checker (?) - saw my deodorant and decided I can't take it on the plane with me. (I'm pretty sure it was because it smelled really nice...and it was almost new!! She wanted it for herself... ;)). I told her that it wasn't liquid (although I know that gas is "liquid" as well...), showed her the ingredients... Nothing. So I asked her "Why??". Of course she didn't have an answer. She asked me "When you spray it, is it wet?". I said no. And then? Nothing again... Surprisingly apple (which has a lot of water in it) and chocolate with liquid filling weren't liquids. Luckily for me :).

The flight was really short! Almost just as long as I need in the middle of the night to get home by bus!

 

I will mostly post pictures...

Almost everywhere they have signs written in both languages. The English and the weird one (=Gaelic) ;).

Airport is only 30-minute bus drive away :). And we found our hostel really quickly. There we discovered that they up-grade-ed us to a 6-bed room (we booked a 12-bed dorm). And then...we were alone in the room! (The first night there were some people...but came very late and left early).

Dublin is really nice city. Cute. Small - you can walk around it. It almost looks like Amsterdam with all those narrow houses... And the river (Liffey)..

And here come the pictures :).

Chester Beatty library (which is NOT a library, but an interesting museum, gallery...), Dublin Castle (and the chappel?).

Some streets..

 

O'Connell Street - the main street in the city centre and is one of the widest streets in Europe. There are The Spire ("Spike"), 120m high landmark and the General Post Office (one of the last great public buildings of the Georgian era).

And there is tram going through the city cente. 

I mustn't forget to mention "The Hand", the famous monument ;).

Dubliners seem to love a great name...

 

In the evening we went to a pub to listen to some Irish music :). 

City of bridges:

On Sunday we went to the "East Dublin". East of centre, that is.

When we got almost to the sea (not really, heehh), someone gave us vouchers for "Dublin Eye" (I don't know how is it really called...and whether it has a name..). She said they (they were a family) won't need them. So we got to go there for free!! :))

 

From there we took the tram to the centre.

Fruit and vegetable market (was closed, looked like it was from Morocco), Christ Church Cathedral, The Four Courts, St Patrick's Cathedral (and the park infront of it):

 

Dublin doors:

On Monday, our last day, we went to Guinness storehouse. Because there's beer and there's Guinness ;). And GPs really used to prescribe Guinness!? 

I poured the perfect pint! :)

 

 Then we went to prison ;). Kilmainham Gaol. It looks really interesting. Like from a film. (anyone knows which film was filmed here?)

It was almost the end of the day...we walked back to the centre, pass all the bridges (from "West Dublin" to the centre)... We went to Phoenix park as well, but just for a short while, because we were getting tired.

Almost forgot about the Temple Bar, nice area...

 

And that was it. It was really nice trip!! :)

Oh, my way home from the airport was interesting too. Because the flight got delayed, I didn't catch the last tube, so I had to take 3 (!!) buses from the centre and a 5minute walk from one bus station to another, because the next bus didn't pass the 1st bus stop. I got home at 3am... Tired and ready to go to Uni next day...NOT, heheh :).

New posts coming...hopefully soon :).

And something to cheer at least someone up (yup, Elham, it's you! ;)), the weather forecast:

(2nd to) Last week on SoP

Writing again!! :) Missed me much? ;)

In the week before going to Dublin I had my final presentation at the British Medical Association house, at monthly CPPR (Centre for Peadiatric Pharmacy Research) meeting. Everybody clapped at the end of my (35-minute) presentation! :) And they were really impressed... It was soooo nice :))).

We had some more arabic coffee - this time with dates :). And at home I had black tea with dried kaki...mmmmm

 

On Wednesday that week Andrea and I went to Kate's, she was hosting a Buddhist meeting. So at first we chanted (= you just repeat the same 4 words all the time) for approx. half an hour and then we talked about hope... It was interesting.

I did some more charity work as well... Things I do for charity... ;). Yummy.. (I bought it and eat it, didn't bake it... But it was even better than it looks!)

On Friday (and it was still March!!) it was really warm, already in the morning - so Elham and I went to have coffee outside.

St. Patrick's Day, BRISTOL & Parkour

I think this post will be really short...mostly pictures :). Because otherwise I will not be able to get up in less than 5 hours to catch a bus to the airport... Which wouldn't be so great. Missing the flight, I mean. Oh, forgot to mention....going to Dublin! :)

So, on the 17th of March was St. Patrick's Day, so naturally we went to a pub to have some Guinness :)).

Then, on Saturday we went to Bristol! :D Really lovely city. It was sooo nice. You could smell the sea, it was sunny, warm...just like summer, really. It has a small old centre, so you can just walk around. Bristol is about 200 km west of London, if anyone wants to know ;).

 

Sunday was the day for the Cheese & Wine Festival and also for Parkour! :) At the festival they didn't even offer free cheese degustation?! [Kekci eni, heheh] But parkour guys were really great. Sometimes it was a bit scarry watching them. Like when they jumped to a rail from 4 (? maybe less, I don't really know...but it seemed far :)) meters away...especially when it was getting late, more humid, so the rails were getting slippery... Uff...
Anyway...here are some videos from the event: click
And the winning run: click no.2
There were girls as well (3). The best one: Luci (sadly not really good quality of the video...)
Wow, just found this: another click (this one is more for those, who have too much time hehhh, 14mins to be exact... but it's really the best one...I think all of the contestants are there... And one unfortunate fall which looked pretty awful and painful and because of which the best guy (in I think many people's opinion) didn't make it to the finals :( sadly...)

 

OK, this will be all...at least for now. Maybe I will add something later on. Or not :).

It's 4 hrs now...:(
Good night :)

Greenwich, Museum of London

On Saturday I went to Greenwich with Roni. When I left our house the weather was really nice, but by the time I got there, it was already cloudy. Because this is on the other side of the city centre. So it took me almost an hour and a half to get there! It was still nice though :).

On Sunday Andrea and I went to the Museum of London. It is really interesting, but sooo big! You can't see everything in one day. Unfortunatelly we just missed one exhibition, but.... I found it online :) Postcards from the Future

I am going to finish this post with my new roommate, who I hope will help me catch these annoying moths...:)

And another bug :). This one is from the School of Pharmacy.

Ladybug

I decided to end with something else. Like with the pancakes I made today :). It was a bit of a challenge because we don't have a mixer, but in the end the fork was OK too...

Yummy, yummy, yummy...;)

Pustne palačinke

So that there won't really be a three week gap between posts...:).

Sonček
Za začetek malo sončka... Tako kot je Elham navdušena nad dežjem sem jaz nad soncem - in ona me nikakor ne more razumeti, hehe.

že 100tič naš faks...ampak če je pa tako lepo...

Theatre

V roku zadnjega tedna sem šla dvakrat v gledališče. I liked both plays. The first one was An Evening With Dementia, a monoplay about a man with dementia, his feelings, how people look at him... And the second one was: One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest. They were both performed in an independent theatre... At the 1st one there was maybe just 8 people in the audience! The other one had a live band with them on stage - for the background music...

Shrove Tuesday, Pancake Day, Pust, Carneval...

Last Tuesday was the Pancake Day. They had a lot of games with pancakes, free pancakes... :). And because the weather was really nice (in most people's opinion ;)) we decided to make our lunch break a bit longer :). Unfortunatelly we missed all the games, but we did manage to get some free pancakes!

 

And I found this really cool-looking store:

In the evening I went to a travel agency, where they had a presentation about the Rio Carnival. They gave us Brazilian food and some coctails. Then they also taught us some of the samba steps that they dance in the carnival.

Za konec pa še malo idej za pust ;) Tukaj ga ne praznujejo, tako da (čeprav sem se hotela) se nisem nič našemila...

Libanonka + Ugly Betty/Geek :)

African Prints, Westfield, Another Presentation

About 2 weeks ago Judit and I went to a presentation/workshop on West African print making. They make all these beautiful prints on the fabric from which they make their clothes (now mostly for funerals...). And we got to try it ourselves :)). We had a lot of stamps to choose from - they make stamps (the genuine ones) from some sort of a pumpkin.

Everything means something - for example:
turtle = adaptability
the bird that looks back but goes forward = remember your past; use the knowledge, experience from the past (? something like that)
the round sign = mightiness

 

Ta (=2 tedna nazaj) teden sem imela še eno predstavitev za našo NONMEM skupinico. Ker smo vsi mislili, da bom že končala (in predstavila končne rezultate)...ampak kar še vedno nisem. Vedno se pojavijo novi in novi zapleti... Prejšnji teden sem bila skoraj vsak dan več kot do 6ih na faksu! Upam, da ta teden res končam...da imam potem malo časa za zaključevanje in razmišljanje o pisanju naloge... No, predstavitev mi ni bila ravno zelo všeč (se mi je zdelo, da kar še VELIKO stvari ne vem..). Elham mi je pa takoj po koncu rekla: "Wow, really nice presentation!!" :) Mogoče je zaradi tistega efekta, ko več kot veš, več veš, da ne veš ;). (If that makes any sense, hehe). 

Prejšnji vikend smo šle Slovenke (Kaja, Roni, jaz) malo v Westfield. Westfield is a huge shopping centre with a retail floor area of 150,000m² (~ 30 football pitches). At the time of its opening (2008) it was said to be the 3rd largest in the UK. There are really a lot of stores... But I missed some benches or chairs or something to sit down. Because you can get tired of all that walking really soon :). But it is a nice centre. And the smoothies they sell are soooo yummy... :)).

Zapleti s sostanovalcem...in....nov sostanovalec
Ja, prejšnji sostanovalec je imel nekatere čudne navade. Npr. ko je dal kaj kuhati, je potem včasih kar šel ven (za kakšno uro in pol??). Tako se je enkrat kuhinja skoraj zažgala! Na srečo sem bila doma in vohala dim v svojo sobo...šla pogledat dol... Potem sem ga vprašala, če je pozabil, pa je rekel, ne, samo v trgovino sem še šel vmes. OK?? Ja, pa tudi ponoči je bil zelo glasen - butal je z vrati, tekel s čevli po stopnicah... Enkrat sem se mi zdi da kakšne 5-krat skoraj zaspala, ampak nisem.. Potem sem šla dol v dnevno sobo in mu rekla: "#$%#&@?!??! Stop with that or I will kill you!!" (Well...of course I didn't :) But I DID want to...). Niso mu podaljšali najemne pogodbe, tako da se je moral izseliti.
Prejšnji vikend pa je prišel novi sostanovalecc, Tom. Za enkrat je vredu. Upajmo.

This will be all for today :). I will try to post something sooner than in 3 weeks time ;). In the meantime, write some comments, emails...:).

Nighty nite

Flamenco, Contemporary, Portobello

A bit more than 2 weeks ago I went to see Flamenco show. Eva was performing, so I knew she would be great ;). Ooo...ampak res je bila zelo dobra!! In tudi band, ki ga je imela sabo.. Pa tudi ostali trije plesalci, ki so bili z njo na odru.. Včasih se mi je zdelo, kot bi bila kje na jugu Španije... hehe. [Drugače je njeno celo ime Eva Yerbabuena, če koga zanima.]

 

En dan pred tem je bil spet sončeeek :)). 

Contemporary dance: Ja, končno se mi je ratalo spravit spet do Pineapple Dance School. Šla sem na ta klas... (zdaj sem šla že 3x). Saj je kar zanimivo, malo drugače.. Edino, kar me moti je, da stalno govori leva roka tja, desna tja....in preden se spomnim katera je katera... Potem je velikokrat "the other left". Hheh... Je pa ta, ki ma klas, tudi taka zabavna, se stalno nekaj zafrkava...

On Saturday we went to Portobello Road market. I think it would have been nicer if it hadn't rained.. But then it would probably be too crowded.. This market is close to Notting Hill Gate Station. And it's actually a long street with a lot of stalls with antiques, jewellery, second-hand clothes...