Sunday, August 26, 2007

アイルランドの物価

たまにはアイルランドについての情報も、、、ってことでアイルランドの物価です。


コカコーラ500ml  1.2ユーロ(約192円)

ビックマックセット 5.9ユーロ(約944円)

ビール一杯     3.8~5.5ユーロ(約608~880円)

バスの最低運賃   1ユーロ(約160円)

ハウスシェアの家賃一か月分(平均) 450ユーロ(約72,000円)

インターネット一ヶ月 24ユーロ(約3840円)

りんご一個     49セント(約90円)

地下鉄       そんなものありません

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まあざっとこんな感じです。来る人がいたらぜひ参考にしてください。
あと、食料品とかのスーパーは日本とそんなに変わりません。
安く抑えようとすれば、抑えれます。抑えてます。

Friday, August 24, 2007

Sweden-Denmark-Germany

I'm back from 5 days trip to Sweden, Denmark and Germany.

This time, I started my journey from the south of Sweden, then went west to Copenhagen which is the capital of Denmark and finally got the train to Hamburg which is the Second largest city in Germany.

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-Day 1-

I arrived at Malmo belonging to South part of Sweden afternoon, then got on the bus to Copenhagen. I stayed at Youth hostel. My bed was old and made really big noise.

-Day 2-

I walked around Copenhagen visiting most of tourist attractions. The harbor was beautiful and I realized that there were so many people who bike. It was like china.
But I thought it's nice that everybody bikes. it's good for the earth and everybody.
I walked kinda too much. I was exhausted and went back to the hostel.

-Day 3-

I visited Malmo again. It was during the festival so there were lots of street shops and that made me so satisfied. I also visited some tourist attractions. The buildings were beautifully made but what I liked was the back street. There were small but lovely houses decorated with lots of flowers along the street.t I really liked it.


-Day 4-
I woke up early to get the train to Hamburg. It took nearly 4 hours. During the journey, the train itself went into the ship to cross the sea! so I could enjoy a short cruise, too. I arrived at Hamburg around noon. It was rainy. I walked around the city as much as possible but it was so big city so I used subways finally.
I found lots of canals in the city and there were some old ones.

-Day 5-
Final day of the journey. it was sunny and the temperature reached 25 degree.
I walked around the lake Alster. The view of the city from the lake was beautiful.
After a while I got the bus to airport at noon and then went home.


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Throughout the journey, I realized that all of cities I visited this time is the harbor town so all cities have similar flavour but each city has different taste.
People of Scandinavian countries can speak English very well so it helped me a lot.
I couldn't go to Berlin or another cities in Germany. I should go to Germany again! That's the rough story of this journey.

I have to go back to the real life again.

Friday, August 17, 2007

Canada-Ireland

彼女がカナダから遊びに来てました。
彼女も彼女で忙しいみたいで、たった5日間しか一緒にいられなかったけど半年ぶりの再会を楽しめました。

自分自身ダブリン観光をあまりしていなかったので、この機会に一緒にダブリン観光しときました。

ギネスストアハウス(guinessの博物館)

アーリントンホテル(Irish music, danceが見れる)

トリニティカレッジ(アイルランドの東大)

などなど、主要な観光スポットを見てまわりました。彼女はギネスが嫌いみたいでしたが、ベイリーズが気に入ったみたいでした。

あと、自分では気づいていなかったけど、会った瞬間彼女に「ガリガリ」といわれました。
日本にいるときよりかなり痩せてるみたいです。

楽しい時間はあっという間に過ぎるもので、あっという間の5日間でした。やっぱり別れの瞬間は辛かった。これからまた半年の遠距離。次会うのは、関空かな。

頑張れ自分ら!

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Irish dance




This is Irish dance. Whatch their feet carefully. It's amazing.

Saturday, August 11, 2007

You need to get into futball

I have some friends who are really mad for football, especially Liverpool.
These days I often hang out with them and whenever we go for a pint, we always talk about sport.

And they always say to me 'You need to get into futball'.

I love sport but what I like is baseball and skiing. Since I came to Dublin, I've seen quite a lot of Rugby and football matches and guradually I'm getting into Rugby.

At first I thought Rugby was really savage sport but it was not. THat was a gentlemens' sport. They don't complain so much even though something wrong happens.
that reminded me of the high school baseball of Japan what I like. That's why I got into Rugby.

However, I still can't get into futball yet. I saw some matches on TV but that didn't stimulate me maybe I need some stronger stimulation. So I asked my lads to take to the real football matches.

I don't know when it will be but I hope I can go there by December at latest.
I'm really looking forward to the real stimulation!

the important thing is a stimulation!

Summer vacation

いつもと変わらない日常を過ごしています。8月ですが、汗をかくことがまずありません。

せっせと働き、たまにダブリンに残っている友達と飲みにいってます。

このまえ行った韓国料理のお店は、バーとレストランが繋がっていて飯を食べた後にすぐバーで飲み直せるというなかなかcoolな場所でした。そこで、日本で見慣れたものを発見!

「Pitcher」

こっちでは、いつもパイントのグラスで飲んでるから、ピッチャーがすごい新鮮に感じた。
値段も、ピッチャーのほうが手ごろで節約するにはもってこいやね。
ちなみに、ビール一杯600円以上するからね。

塵も積もれば山やしね。

話は変わって、8月はイベントが続く。
お客さんは来るし、自分もまた新しい国を旅する。

あっと言う間に過ぎそうだ。

ただ気がかりなのは、今月仕事の休みをちょっと取りすぎたこと。
普段の勤務態度とかが次の週のシフトにもろ反映されるから、あんまり休みをとりすぎると普段のシフトも減るわけで。マネージャーにもチクリと言われたし、、、やべ。

まあでも、俺にとっては一年しかないし色々見たいし今は時間の方が大事ってことにしとくか。
貴重な時間=priceless


実際お金も欲しいけどね。



かかってこい。8月!

Monday, August 06, 2007

hearing the thunder, seeing the lightning

Today is August Bank Holiday so I get a day off.
The weather is terrible though.

the weather changed every three hours. Very angry clouds came every three hours and I saw the lightning for the first time in Ireland. I was surprised because I thought the thunder doesn't exist in Ireland.

so Today I was reading a book almost whole the day.
It's not bad to spend a day off reading a book sometimes.

And I did some clean up of the house because a VIP for me will visit me next week.
I'm really exited with that.to

I have to make a plan for that, where to see and what to do.
And me myself will make a trip to another countries this month.

I feel like time will go by so fast this month and I'll really enjoy the August.