Bubblin´ in Dublin

It´s been a good couple of weeks since I´ve written in this thing. I hope nobody has been bereft. Went to Dublin this weekend (for only $60!), here are some highlights: the pleasantly sour earthy smell that pervades the country, amiable people, minifaldas, touching the 800-year-old corspe of a Crusader, getting mildly drunk at the tour of the Jameson whiskey distillery and walking through the city at sunset, traditional Irish music (jigs and all), the hilltop view in Howth (small fishing town outside the capital), amiable Irish people that are actually willing to talk to you! Also we may have had a pint or two.

And in Madrid I made a new friend, Santi, the man with el chocolate.

Spring break plans are dragging on forever, especially after the company I booked a flight with turned out to be, um, a fraud, more or less. Let´s just say they were operating an airline (supposedly with a fleet of two planes) out of some guy´s parents apartment/dental practice. So now it looks as if I am stuck taking the bus to Paris, which if you read that sentence in a complaining tone, sounds really obnoxious. Yeah it´s 17 hours each way (and STILL costs $170!), but hell, its freakin Paris.