Walk on the Eyre Side

Hello, from Galway for real now! It's lovely here, but it does rain about 98% of the time. Since this will be more fun to look at than read, here's what my walk from apartment to campus is like:


Everyone has nice flowers growing in their lawn, I don't know what type these are but I like 'em.


There are at least four ponies living within two blocks of our place, many more pictures of them will follow...

These are some kind of strange watertower or water treatment formations. The inverted cone is a good landmark when I have no idea what direction I should be going (a.k.a all the time).

Here's a little leg of the River Corrib, which we have to cross to get to campus.

This is also a little tributary of the river, and there's a lone swan who's always hanging around. See that white speck? That's him.

So, I have an awesome walk (when it's not raining) to school and the apartment is really nice as well. We just had an incident with the washer/dryer, which decided to flood our kitchen but it's not the end of the world. The repairman's wife, however, just went into labor so it might be awhile before we can do the washing here.

Last night I went to a great pub called the Crane. There were some older guys playing traditional music and everyone hanging out. We met another American who was on vacation for a week from Queens, NY, and the bartender was from Australia and had been in Ireland for about 7 months. Apparently down the street another place had Blitzen Trapper playing for free, and Okkervil River is going to be there sometime soon as well!

Other than that, just orientation stuff and me getting lost around campus. Classes start Monday so I have to weekend to figure that out, and our Irish housemates should be moving in soon too. Hope you all are doing well!