Newgrange and Knowth: Hanging Out in Ancient Irish Tombs

In the interest of wrapping up the summer trip to Ireland neatly, I have one more post regarding that trip.
We all spent one day poking around archaically old druid tombs. Knowth and Newgrange are both rather large burial mounds, and definitely on the must-see list for cool old shit in Ireland. You can [...]

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Howth: A Personal Adventure

Since I’m leaving again for Ireland in a few short days, I feel the need to wrap up the report of my last visit.
After a few days in the city, it was time for an adventure on my own on the outside. Howth is a favorite place of my friend Ronan, so he typed me [...]

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Zen Meditation Workshop

I just got the photos from this up as well.
My friend Mary Beth’s supervisor, Madoka, is married to a Zen Buddhist priest (who took the name “Zen,” actually). Since Madoka is one of th nicest people in the world, she and Zen invited a small group of foreign English teachers to come have a meditation [...]

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Disguised, Displaced, and Drunk

So. We all know by now that I’m terrible at getting photos up and writing about things soon after they happen. Let’s accept that and move on to the “better late than never” philosophy.
That said, welcome to the rural town of Sakuma.
Near the end of this summer, my friend Gillian, who is in her third [...]

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