Julia is Traveling

Yes, the rumors are true. I traveled three hours outside of Dublin, by myself. ALL by myself.  I taxi'd to the train station, all on my own.  Taxi'd to the other train station because I went to the wrong one, all on my own. Took a train, all by myself. Transferred trains, all alone.  Got lunch at the Curious Cat cafe, ALONE.  Checked into my hostel, (independently by myself). Then I did the biggest thing of all: I WENT ON A 15 MILE HIKE.  ALONE. I visited the Killarney national park last weekend. My hostel advertised that they were 1 minute away from the national park, but what they failed to mention was that the mountains, a part of the park, were FOUR MILES ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PARK. So I suited up in my cute hiking outfit with my cute hiking boots and cute rain jacket and cute hiking backpack, then set off four miles to the park. I began the journey a little unsure because the mountains did not seem to be getting closer. After about an hour of walking along a busy road,

  The last two (three?) weeks  I've been busy. The last time we really chatted was when I went to Belfast. My mom informed me that even though my last blog post was great, it didn't tell her what I have been up to, despite the fact that I talk to her at least two (three) times a day and give her a complete recounting of every single thing I do. So this blog post is dedicated to my mom and will recount my past two weeks in great detail.  As you all saw in my last post, I went on a hike. Every Wednesday I have class until 11, so I have been trying to plan small day trips for after class. I have a friend who goes to another college in Dublin, UCD, and we have been making plans together every Wednesday. We've been slowly working our way through her expansive list of coffee shops she wants to visit, but last week we strayed from our typically plans and went to a small beach town in Ireland called Bray. My friend Flo joined us and we hopped on the 155 bus ;) and took a quick one