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It's half past one in the morning, 1ºC out there in the countryside and my friends S and J are putting on their coats to go and see the stars from the road in front of our house. We're in a small town for the weekend and it's freezing. So I'm waiting here, sitting on a cushion next to the window (one of those long windows from ceiling to floor), wrapped in a blanket and watching the low yellow half moon through a telescope :)

It's being a wonderful weekend and a wonderful break before the beginning of another stressful week~

Hi there!

Ah, vacations are over and here I am again, trying to regain some time while I prepare a lecture about domestic life in Rome for next thursday. But I feel good! And partly, that's because of this wonderful last month -I even visited the beach after coming from Ireland :)

Mainly, we spent the days in Dublin, in an apartment almost in the outskirts. We saw a great part of the city and basically behaved like your average tourist, buying shamrock's lollipops and stuffed leprechauns and, also, visiting the Guinness Storehouse. I even try to drink a pint, but what can I say, I don't like beer at all D:

Regretfully, our apartment was real far away from the center of the city and with no car of our own, we couldn't spend any night in a pub listening to live celtic music. But to make up for it I got a tin whistle *lol* -by now my neighbours might be a bit tired of me.

The last days we went to Malahide where we were supposed to visit a haunted castle. We didn't meet any ghost but the surroundings were beautiful: there was a forest before arriving the castle! ♥

Later we went to Howth. It's a cute fishermen town in the east coast with awesome cliffs and seals :3 And finally, the day before returning, we took a bus to cross the country. Three hours later we were in Galway, on our way to see a little of the west coast of Ireland.

The impressive sight of above is a part of the Cliffs of Moher, in the west coast. They appeared in The Princess Bride as the "Cliffs of Insanity", and actually the translation from Gaelic Mhothair would be Cliffs of ruin. We were told a story about a redhead woman who used to live there and killed one by one all her lovers and her husband throwing them to the void. I haven't found any legends like that about the Cliffs but it's true that people die here every year -accidents and suicides, even when it's one the most touristic places of Ireland. Truth be told, there's a little limestone wall which separates the "safe" part from the rest of the cliffs but everyone cross it anyway (me included).

It was great to leave behind the suffocating heat of Spain for some days to feel a bit of rain and fresh air, even when I wore layer over layer of clothes in August!

So there, have some pics of the epic vacation ;)

( Remember: no rain, no rainbows )

I bought a beautiful diary in Rome. It has leather covers and,on the front, one of the wings designed by Leonardo da Vinci. Lately I've been writing there all the things I didn't write here but to sum it up, I had a wonderful time in Italy -awfully hot, that's true, but wonderful all the same.

( More rambling about these past days )

Anyway the month was good and my friend, who kindly lent me her own room all for me (!!), was utterly lovely~


( Bonus: pics of angels from Rome -entry with general photos in the near future, I hope... )

So that's it. Right now I'm preparing everything fot another trip. This one to the usual place this time of the year: yep, excavation time -.- I hope to come back next weekend (and I HOPE to come back with no injury in my knee, please).


Traveling on and on
though I fall down dead,
clover fields
Kawai Sora



I think it fits my new diary :)

The return back home was as interesting as always. You may not believe it but the cheaper way to arrive here consisted in taking a plane from Bordeaux to London and one from London to Zaragoza with a stop in Madrid @_@ All that just because when I booked the tickets I didn't know the transport strike would finish by the end of november. So I did a France-England-Spain trip in one day *sweatdrops*. The great part was the book shops at Gatwick (and the Marks & Spencer's sandwich XD) but the security controls got on my nerves. The first advice on being careful with the luggage or it "may be destroyed" made laugh a bit remembering childhood cartoons with auto-destructive messages attached to things; by the tenth time I heard it, I had began twitching. And they didn't let me get in the plane with my laptop and my handbag! I had to choose one or the other. Even when I came from France with both of them in the plane! So they obliged me to put my handbag with my food and everything inside my suitcase -and later they lost that precise suitcase. By the end of the day I was kind of tired and INFURIATED.

Fortunately, all my baggage is here already and I can breath normally again.

That aside, I still want to draw angels so WINGS THIS WAY.
Now I think I'm going to try and make amends with my piano.

Right now I can see the sea from my window :)
This is very cool and different from everything I've seen before. The landscape is like a lunar desert but with mountains in the horizon; red and black stones and almost black sand everywhere. But the sea is bluer than any other I know and cacti -cause here cactus and palm trees constitute most of the vegetation- are green, yellow and red, and have all kinds of shapes.

Tomorrow I'll go to the beach and decide what excursions I could do -wanna see the natural park with volcanoes and camels! And I'll make sure I have my camera :3

*ehem*
I'LL BE IN LONDON NEXT WEEKEND!!
\^o^/

I was so so so bored I talked to a friend about me wanting to get away from here some days, maybe going to Rome or anywhere else. And she said "so why not?" So hell, yeah! Let's find a flight! And there was the idea of London. I've never been in London! Actually, I've never been in England ^^; I'm happy! *eventually, suffers drastic mood changes*

Hee hee, I really needed something like this ;)

Btw, does anyone know if next Monday is holiday there? Cause we're planning to stay till Tuesday thanks to the long-weekend here~

Bed now and Book's Day tomorrow (loves April) -hopefully my knee will let me walk just for a little while... and it must will be all good and ready for London :)

I found a place to stay in Rome!! At least one of my friends is going to be free this week and I can go to her place <3

Waaaa! I'll see old friends and walk the city again and buy the best ice-creams ever and revisit all the places I love and... XDDD

But I don't know if I want to visit my flat again. I think I'll go in the end (I still have the keys of the terrace roof *smirks*) but don't know if it's a good idea to check if Mina is still using the garden as her second home. I'd be very upset if someone told me they haven't seen the cat.

Try to finish with packing today: tomorrow I still have classes and on tuesday have to take the bus to the airport at 6,00 in the morning, meh!