Wandering again

I didn't wake up as early as I wanted to this morning, naturally. But when I got out of here I went to the Elite Confectionery here in Maynooth. I got a "breakfast bun" which turned out to be bacon and sausage piled onto this thick piece of bread. It was okay. Weirdly salty. They have really good tea though. Whenever you get tea with something it's always "traditional tea" and I really don't know what it is. It was pretty cheap though, so I'm satisfied.


After that it was Dublin time. I'm going to make an itinerary for the next time I go. Today I just walked around aimlessly again. It's really fun though. I browsed some bookstores and did not buy anything. There's a problem with bookstores. All the ones that have a lot of classics are expensive, and all the second hand stores only have Penguin classics. I'm on the lookout for a Don Quixote that isn't 20 Euro. And preferably in Spanish. I might just have to wait and steal Whitney's when I get home.

I ran across a kind of farmer's market that looked cool and smelled really good. They were starting to close up when I got there though. There was Asian food and cheese and vegetables and jewelry and grilled meats and wine and quiche and wooden bowls. Oh yeah, some guy was advertising "straight from the farm: horse, lamb, ox meat."

I went into a Celtic touristy shop. It was interesting. They had a bunch of huge Celtic crosses and leprechaun everything of course. Cheaper postcards though.

I walked by "Occupy Dame Street." When I got back here I saw all the stuff about Rome freaking out. The demonstration here was really small--about ten tents and maybe fifty people standing listen to this guy talk through a megaphone about how to get involved. I didn't even see any Garda there. Not to say that it doesn't count...just that it's not dangerous here or anything.

It started raining pretty good as it was getting later, so I decided to walk toward Merrion Square which is the end of the bus line I wanted. I ended up on the end with the Oscar Wilde statue. It's in a weird place though--you can kind of make it out behind the gate and behind some shrubbery, but to really get to it you have to enter a park and there are only so many entrances in this fence. And today most of them were closed for some reason, so I didn't get any good pictures. But I'm positive I'll be back.

On the way back to the apartment I stopped at Dunnes to get some dinner things--2 dollar frozen pizza. Not in the mood for cooking. I did pretty well this week though. I always thought cooking was fun but I just attributed it to whomever I was cooking with, but it's still fun even by myself. Anyway, Guinness is on sale! 10 Euro for an 8 pack. It's usually 14 I think. I was disappointed when I got here and our big glass isn't in the kitchen. Some jerk has it in his room. I may have to buy myself one. Guinness isn't the same in a short glass.