After Ireland-Dublin Station

This is Dublin railway station, I believe its been ages. If you look the left top with a Rome numbers, I can not rekon what's that, sorry folks.

Irish railway encourage all the tourists to purchase their ticket via Internet, they offer variety of discount on the fare, but if you purchase from their ticket office, it must be more expensive than Internet. As you can see above is their ticket machine, you can either purchase there or online, it's all up to you.

After Ireland-The Tomb in context

I can not recall where we headed, but I can tell is there is also a Stonehenge in the Ireland, however, it looks like Irish calls The Tomb in context.

I have to say Rome Empire must be really strong and powerful, as not only in this place, but also in Bath (Wales, UK), I have been visited the proper Stonehenge, that one is really massive and amazing, especially people don't really understand how it happened? However, based on those papers and documents, we people still don't believe that Rome can make it, as those stone are really huge and heavy, people wonder how? Exactly, how? maybe Rome have advantage technology and smart people to organise it.

Regarding this, some people assume it is sort of religious or manners, such as pray! I believe that's the most common acknowledge for this. But what I don't understand is were they really strong enough to carry on those stones, even orgnaise it, what a incrrideble job they had and left a such big fuzzy to us.

On the other hand, you can also wow Rome Empire was really strong in early thousands years ago, from south Europe to North Europe, but how about now?

After Ireland-Stoneman

Do you recon what it is? sort of stoneman, yeah? I did not notice this at the first time, but our tour guide stopped the coach and pointed to us, he gave us a brief story, but I have to say sorry, folks, I can not remember the whole story, but I can tell is this is kind of to protect Irland and scary the enemies. Be honest, I believe it works, don't you recond it is a bit creepy?

If our tour guide didnt show to us, I believe we may just pass by and never understand there is a stoneman sitting there and protect Irish for such a long time.

To Irish Stoneman~

After Ireland-Signs

As you can see, this is proper Ireland, even our tour guide who is an Irish as well, he told us that if our concil can re orgnaize these fussy signs, then guess what? We can get more tourists, yeah?

On the way to the cliffs, he used to ask us which way is to the cliffs? Be frankly, even I am local here, how suppose I know which way is to The cliffs of Moher?

Our tour guide said to us, you will never get it, turn right? or turn left?

Welcome to Ireland!!

Temple Bar

Temple Bar, one of the most famous vistors attractions


Basically, after dark, the Temple bar is a major centre of nightlife, where restaurants, pubs are all in this area.

We found out that there is a Temple Bar Gallery & Studio, but we didn't walk into and check. So I can not share any piece information to you all.

Next time, you must go over there and check it out, there are so many bars/restaurants awaiting you to explore.

Heading to Dublin

After staying in Galway city for 2.5 days, time for packing our belongs and move on. So we headed to Dublin as same as our travel plan.

Dublin, capital of Ireland, of course the largest city in Ireland. As you may aware of Dublin is a historical and contemporary cultural centre for the Ireland as well as a modern centre of education, the arts, administrative function, economy and industry.

So here is our plan, we stayed in Dublin for the rest 2.5 days, and we went to Trinity College Dublin, Ha'penny bridge, Temple bar, Guinness store house and few of main streets to check what are these Irish doing daily bases! I think this is quite important thing when you go travelling any of country, check how these local up to and deal with. We definitely can not get every single details, so we can only get these piece information through our eyes and ears, so drop everything you have got, just watch and learn. This is the purpose of the travelling, having fun and enjoy it.

Hence, following Posts, I will describe few places which we have visited in our trip, so there we go!!!

The Cliffs of Moher

Next, we moved to the next place, which is also the most popular attraction place in Ireland: The Cliffs of Moher

The cliffs rise 120 meters above the Atlantic Ocean and 8 km away, the cliffs boast one of Ireland's most spectacular views. From the cliffs you can see the Aran Islands and Galway bay. Our tour guide also told us YES, there are many people fall off the cliffs, so becareful. I was a little bit scary and shock the power of nature, it created this massive cliffs, it is really beautiful and amazing.

below is Tourist centre, which means you can buy the souvenir at there and also restaurant and coffee shop there. But, they will charge you 1 euro when your coach park at the car park, personally, I think this is because we join the travel agency, so the ticket has already included in the fee, that's why they call this is 'facility fee'.

Burren Guided Walking Tour

Next day, we went to New coach station in order to join the day tour, the reason we would like to join the day tour: first, this is not easy and convenience for us to travel these famous places, however if we do really travel there by our own, it must cost us a lot of money, consider of this condition, we decided to join the local tour agency.

There are four main tour agencies there, you can go over there around 9.30am to 10.00am to check these 4 agencies, or you can also compare online, as they offer 10% discount online booking. However, personally, for my experience, DO NOT book online, this is because if you do book online, then what is done is done. I mean, you can also negotiate with them, see if they can offer you much cheapest price, sometimes, these agencies will provide you a very good deal to ensure you go with them, you know, it's business, so it's up to you indeed.

After a careful consideration, we joined Burren Wild Tour, host by Healy agency. In fact, I prefer join this, this is becuase there is a local guide guide us into the Burren Mountains.

Please note, you may confuse what different with these 2 agencies, personally, I think they work together. This is because if you read their leaflet carefully, you will find out one has the TOUR, but the other one doesn't. The doggy thing is they will put you all together and take you to first stop: Burren, so if you don't book walking tour, the coach driver will try to persuade you to join the walking tour, of course you need to pay for it, 7 euros. That's right! 7 euros, so why not select the walking tour initially, save the money. Again, cost cost and cost, money and money, these 2 key things are the priority.

This guy is John, who has a BA degree in Irish Heritage, plus he and his family have already live there for 200 years, as he told us so, unless I didn't catch properly. ^^

We stayed @ Burren around an hour, John guided us a lot of information. We also visited the traditional Irish Farm, saw the cows and sheep, John also explained they will move their cows and sheep to top in the winter time, one of the reason is because Ireland is barely snowing, so they used to move their sheep and cows to top of the hill. Second, I guess this is because of their particular geographic, so as you can see this photo, do you notice any different points? Ha....there are so many rocks(stones), normally should be the grass not these stones, yeah? However, in Ireland, especially Burren, this is their unique geographic.

Below, these cows are belongs John's family. These cows are pregnant and awaiting giving birth.

You can see Glaway bay at the top of Burren mountains.

This is a wishing tree, John also asked us do we have wishing tree in Taiwan, we said YES. John then said, this is interesting, some Taiwanese say no, but he believes we have. We just confirmed his question.^0^

Please go visit their website for further information:

Burren Guided Walking Tour

Healy tours

Galway City Centre

Galway city, the third largest city in Ireland, but the population of Galway city, is around 85,000, according to our tour guide. You may wonder how on earth a city just only 85,000 citizen can be said the second largest city in Ireland, so I check Wikipedia, there are only 4,460,000 population in the whole Ireland. What a surprised? The population of Taiwan is more than Ireland, we have 23 millions people in that small island.

In fact, Ireland is developing their tourist business, so they invested a lot of money on their Tourist Information centre, New coach station and other public building or upgrade their transportation equipments. Above is their new Tourist Information Centre, you can collect loads of information you need regarding Galway city or buy some souvenir gifts at there.

Following photos are part of city centre, I noticed that the most common colour is green, so when you walk into any of the shop, you can find out the most common colour is green, on T-shirt, souvenir gifts, all green colour.

Compared with Royal mail (Post office), Postbank in Ireland, the represent colour is green, the royal mail is red.

When I first saw this sign, I was totally shocked. That is really ridiculous, 1900 euros Fine, oh my god, that's why we figured out that the streets are much clean than London, indeed, people don't want to lose their money on this, even me as well, especially at this point: recession.

Overall, this is a small city centre, I believe. However, people who come to visit or stay in Galway city, I can tell this is all about the The cliffs of Moher or Burren. As this is a kind of transmission station between Burren and The cliffs.

Next, we will move to The cliffs of Moher and Burren.

To be Continued~~

Discover Ireland

Here is my plan, I am going to discover Ireland 5 days 4 nights, following my plan for your info:

1st day:
Arrive Dublin, then go to Galway by coach (Citylink). Then do some Galway city tour, find out what's happening there?!

2nd day:
Join day tour to Burren and The cliffs of Moher.

3rd day:
Go to Dublin by train (Irish railway)

4th day:
Visit Dublin the most famous place, such as: Temple Bar, Trinity colleage

5th day:
Visit Guiness storehouse, then back to London

Following the series posts, I will update my blog and show you this wonderful contry.

To be continued~~

Ready to discover Ireland

As Taiwanese don't have to apply for Irish Visa, then for our next trip, we decided to go to Ireland and discover this country.

We deicded to go to Dublin, the capital of Ireland, then move to Galway, we can also go to discover the cliff of Moher and Bruuen national country via Galway, quite a good place to stop and go to our next spot.

People requiring how we go to there? Actually, we take flight to Dublin, before I booked the flight, indeed, there are many options, such as ferry, railway. However, after a long discussion and consideration, we chose flight as our main transportation.

In addition, we would prefer start from London Heathrow instead of London Gatwick or stansted airport, therefore, we have to pay higher tax, although our ticket is FREE, that's right, 0 value for our ticket,plus, return, not single!! What a worth deal it is.

After that, we booked our hostel, this time we skip hostel, the reason is Travelodge offer a great deal, for instnace, we would like to stay in Dublin and Galway 2 nights each, it just only cost us 29 euros per night, not per people, that's right, if we stay in hostel, that will count per people per night, then that would be much expensive than hostel. Plus, we have our own room and bath and space, you don't have to share with other people, which you don't know, of course, you may meet nice people there, however, who knows?

Next, we are going to book the railway, singel 10 euros from Dublin to Galway, please note, if you do not book via internet, then you will pay higher price, which is really ridiculous, so why not book online, save your money!!

IRELAND ANNOUNCES VISA-WAIVER SCHEME FOR TAIWAN NATIONALS

Bravo Taiwan...

From Taiwan Representative Office in Ireland

It was announced today, June 24th, by the Irish Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform that as of July 1st 2009, the Irish Government will be extending to nationals of Taiwan visa-free entry.


Representative David Nan-yang Lee welcomed the Irish Government’s decision and said that it “would make Ireland a much more convenient and appealing destination” for Taiwanese nationals to visit. He stated his belief that the people of both countries share an affinity and “could now look forward to greater and more frequent interaction on a wider scale… I hope that the people of Taiwan will embrace the opportunity to visit Ireland and experience the warmth and hospitality that I have enjoyed here”.


While there is already a Taiwanese community resident in Ireland, it is anticipated that today’s move will see greater numbers visiting Ireland each year and an upsurge in students, tourists and businessmen with trade figures and co-operative ventures rising accordingly. Trade volume between Ireland and Taiwan has stood at a very considerable €1 billion, and while this might not be expected to increase immediately in the current economic climate today’s decision should go some way towards ensuring its future growth.

Sex Museum, Amsterdam

Just same as title, I would like to show you the most famous scene-Sex Museum, Amsterdam

The museum about a sensitive area of human sexuality is located in the busiest spot of Amsterdam, at the Damrak street, just in front of the Central Station, in the real middle of the traffic madness. You can find the museum easily, just follow the way to there or ask those citizens, I believe they will instruct you soon!!

very obvious model and poses just in front of the walkway in the museum.

The Fee: just only 3 euros, not that expensive.

Just walk inside the museum, you can open you eye wildly, you can see lots of funny and sexy tools, also massive dick, make love type, position, and aslo different muffled noises from the hidden speakers will accompany your visit. Besides this, I would like to advice you should see through the aesthetics of the presentation and appreciate the collection, which is rich and interesting. Just open your mind and eyes and enjoy these collections.

Address:

Sex Museum – “Venustempel” Damrak 18 1015 LH Amsterdam

Official Website: http://www.sexmuseumamsterdam.nl/