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Ireland on £4 a day: Day 5
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Ireland on 4 a day. Friday, November 19, 1999. I am in Carndonagh, stuck here for the next three and a half hours. I'll consider it a day of rest. I packed my bag well and slowly set off. I was wearing the same jeans and shirt as I have been wearing since I came. Once again, I was able to dry them out over the radiator in my bedroom last night. Wound its way through fields in a very meandering pattern. The water was about one metre below the level of the grass, and the banks were very steep, so a min...
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Ireland on £4 a day: Day 12
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Ireland on 4 a day. Friday, November 26, 1999. Twelve days have passed since I arrived. Wow. I woke at about 11:30! My bag had been packed the previous evening so all I had to do was have a shower, eat and leave. In the end, I didn’t leave until 1:20, because Fergus had the key to the flat (inside the door of which I have been keeping the bike). I decided to cycle to Culdaff, where the McKeages live. These are the friends of the Doherty's at Whitecastle. I only rode for about half an hour today! These pe...
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Ireland on £4 a day: Day 11
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Ireland on 4 a day. Thursday, November 25, 1999. I think it's a bit of a shame that the weather has been quite dry the week I've been here and the day I will leave, rain is expected. Maybe tonight's storm will be like the Inishowen storms mentioned in the book. If so, I hope it blows itself out by 9:30 tomorrow morning. I have done a very stupid thing: I put some fresh coals on a slumbering fire. When they didn’t catch on, I got a newspaper and fanned it. Coals and ash flew up and into the living...It's ...
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Ireland on £4 a day: The Day Before
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Ireland on 4 a day. Sunday, November 14, 1999. Simply because I have no other alternative - everything else has either been packed or thrown away - I write with a pencil. Of course, I could always make the journey downstairs, yet 350mL of vodka is a powerfully persuasive element for staying comfortable and warm upstairs in my bedroom, such as it is. So, in the next few minutes and, following a nervous sleep, the next few days, I will be trying my best to describe my feelings of realising a dream. When he...
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Ireland on £4 a day: Day 27
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Ireland on 4 a day. Saturday, December 11, 1999. I am lying, in my sleeping bag, on top of a haystack. I packed up and left the hostel in the morning, about 10:30, but not before buying some bananas and a loaf of bread (90p). The bread that they sell in Sainsbury’s here is very, very nice. It is not sliced, just white, fluffy bread and very tasty. They weren’t so bad. I have faced steeper hills, however today - until Keady - there were simply no downhill slopes. A climb was followed by flat road,...At Ke...
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Ireland on £4 a day: Day 25
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Ireland on 4 a day. Thursday, December 09, 1999. To say that today has been the worse day of my trip so far would be an understatement. But first, I'll continue yesterday’s account. I found the youth hostel, belonging to YHI, but the door was locked, and a sign on the door said the hostel was closed between 11 and 5 each day. I was standing at the door, wondering what to do, when someone from inside opened it. She is a guest and told me the price for each room is about 10! I have often thought that this ...
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Ireland on £4 a day: Two Months After
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Ireland on 4 a day. Friday, February 25, 2000. Here I am, back in Australia and attending university. For the first time since leaving Ireland, I am reading Trinity. Although I must have read the book close to ten times, this is by far the best reading. I am just reading the fourth part, out of seven. Up until now, the focus has mainly been on the area of Inishowen, although now the emphasis spreads to Derry, Belfast and Dublin. More than I have known before are the places mentioned!
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Ireland on £4 a day: Five Months After
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Ireland on 4 a day. Saturday, May 13, 2000. I honestly do not know how I survived Ireland! I was walking home from work tonight, and it was cold, wet and windy. Of course, the temperature was above five degrees (it was probably above ten), and the rain wasn’t hitting me in the face so hard it hurt. The wind wasn’t strong enough to send the rain in horizontally, or blow me across the road, but it was still strong enough to give me the chills. Posted by Bren Carlill @ 7:03 AM.
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Ireland on £4 a day: Day 1
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Ireland on 4 a day. Monday, November 15, 1999. Despite the vodka, which got me drunker than I admitted, I got up when the alarm clock sounded, got dressed and went straight downstairs for a much-needed glass of water, followed by a strong coffee. My good friend from church, Steve, had offered to take me all the way to Stanstead Airport - it took about two hours - so when he came we loaded the bike and the backpack into the car, had another coffee and set off. I rode for one and a half miles until I passe...
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Ireland on £4 a day: Day 10
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Ireland on 4 a day. Wednesday, November 24, 1999. I was up to Monday evening. I had been wondering where all the Celtic beauties have been hiding. They've been hiding in the pubs! Silly me. This is Ireland; should have been the first place I looked. This country is full of Celtic beauties! When I walked into the Persian (on both Saturday and Monday nights) there were a few beauties sitting down, all eager to hear my Aussie accent. I came back here at 8:00 on Monday night, drunk out of my head! In the end...
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