Tuesday, October 20, 2009

"Make sure to *blank* before you leave!"

Stole this idea from someone, but it's brilliant.  It's a list of things that I compiled before I came to Dublin, and while I've been here.  I'll cross them off as they happen, and hopefully write a little about each.  Feel free to suggest anything else!
  1. See the Book of Kells
  2. Cross the Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge
  3. Kiss the Blarney Stone
  4. Visit St. Patrick's Cathedral
  5. Drive the Ring of Kerry
  6. Pet a sheep
  7. See the sun set on the Atlantic Ocean
  8. Visit all four Irish provinces: Ulster (Belfast), Munster (Cork), Connacht (Galway), and Leinster (Dublin)
  9. Visit Newgrange
  10. Drink Guinness at the Guinness Storehouse
  11. Be the Jameson Whiskey taste-tester
  12. See a Gaelic football or hurling game, live
  13. Run the Dublin Half Marathon
  14. See the Belfast Peace Line
  15. Learn the Irish language
  16. Read Ulysses
  17. Experience a literary pub crawl
  18. Visit an Aran Island
  19. See the Irish Sea
  20. Ride each form of public transportation: Luas, DART, Dublin Bus, horse?--nah.
  21. Hike Mount Brandon
  22. See the Dingle Peninsula
  23. Visit the Cliffs of Moher
  24. Visit the James Joyce House
  25. View Louis le Brocquy works in the Irish Museum of Modern Art
  26. Read a play by Synge
  27. Climb on the the Giant's Causeway
  28. Pick up a brogue
  29. Be able to leave less than seven foam rings

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