Week two in the land of the Leprechauns

Once upon a time, approximately two and a half weeks ago, there was a young Austrian fairy, who decided to fly all the way to the city of Dublin. The fairy went on this journey in order to listen to the wise words spoken by the wise of the far, far away country of the Leprechauns. Despite carefull planing in advance it seemed that the prejudices about the Leprechauns being mischievous seemed to be true. During the first week after her arival everything appeared to be going according to the plan. However in the second week the Austrian fairy made got to know the Leprechauns with all their moodiness and and pranks. They seemed as if they had made it their ultimate goal to drive the fairy crazy. Everyday they would change the time and location of lectures. They would let the fairy wander through a labyrinth of hidden university corridors and did not even shy away from magically moving whole buildings to a different place. ;-)

It was only thanks to the her indomitable spirit and the help of some good-natured fairys that the Austrian fairy managed afterall. And by the end of the week, despite everything, the fairy had filled her timetable with a good amount of interesting lectures and classes about the irish culture and language.
In her leisure time the fairy would go exploring around the new city and meet other exchange-fairies and goblins.

free walking tour - Dublin Castle

Trinity College Dublin - my 2nd University

flying the world smallest kite

Together with her new friends, the Austrian fairy decided to take the risk, and travel once accross the whole island to the other coast. Due to the fact that this journey was going to be a long one, and the fairy and her friends had lots of plans, they set of at the crack of dawn (7:00) towards the city of Galway.

Galway

Right after their arrival the group was welcomed by an Irish Leprechaun who imediatly started to tell them stories and myths about the anccient city they had landed in before he led them to the magical Cliffs of Moher. On their way to the steep cliffs the Irish Leprechaun told the group more stories and myths about all the places they came across.

Shortly after lunch the group would finally arrive at the cliffs situated right between the two towns of Doolin and Liscannor. Overwhelmed by the beauty of scenery the exchange fairies and goblins spend their afternoon standing/sitting right on the edge of the cliffs, starring down 200 metres to the place where the waves of the Atlantic ocean would break at the stone walls.

All together, the long journey and the many new impressions exhausted the Austrian fairy and back in Dublin after 14 hours she just fell onto her beds. There a with magical dreams enhanced sleep overcame her, preparing her for future adventures...