Sunday, November 22, 2009

Stuck

Home alone, and it is weird. Coz for the last period - 2 months and 22 days, to be exact, i have hardly ever been alone. Sharing an apartment with 3 other people, all of them young and restless, and being in the center of the town close to all the pubs and any other activities that people might want to get into, we always have visitors and house parties are not something out of the ordinary, especially if it is wednesday, friday or saturday :)
But now i am alone. My flat mates have all gone to visit cities - Belfast - been there, even if i have not gone to the Giant's Causeway, the only place here in Ireland included in my top 100 great wonders of the world book . But ok, i have gone close enough and my experience in Belfast was very very satisfying anyway, independent of the quantities of beer consumed there. My other two flatmates are in the UK - a country so close, but yet so far due to my NON-EU passport. Going to Belfast had not been an issue as there is no border on the land, but any travel via airways is off the limits for me. People that are here in exchange also go to Stockholm, Oslo and Helsinki as the latter are now closer and cheaper to fly to from Dublin or from London - tickets can be found with 1 cent. Other destinations open for travel include Denmark and Germany. So yes, it is kinda sad that i am here stuck on this island, as people put it. But it's ok, it is a nice island.

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