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[bigdamnnerd]

Stolen from hiddenbook:

This is the problem with LJ, we all think we are close, but we know nothing about each other. To rectify this, I want you to ask something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about.

Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don’t know about you.

(I can’t do polls since I am cheap and have a free account; so I can’t do the anonymous question thinger.)

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[hagbard23.livejournal.com]

In December of 2000 I travelled with a friend to London to visit another friend who was doing dissertation research there. We spent about a week and a half there, with a three day jaunt to the Emerald Isle. London was all right, but now that I've seen all the touristy things there, I don't really have an urge to go back. I'm just not that fond of waking up with black snot filling my nasal passages. It's a dirty, dirty city. Ireland, however, was a blast, and I didn't spend nearly enough time there. Someday, when I have said extra monies, I'd love to go back.

[jane]

hmmm... see, this is something I've noticed in living a zillion places here in the US, tourist brochures always show the TV version of a place. It's funny how the power lines and litter and eyesore buildings don't make it into the pictures and the air quality is quietly overlooked.

A co-worker of mine just got back from a trip to Russia. She said that the hardest thing to get used to in the first couple days was the different air. I never thought of that as a possible problem. Maybe in the Himalayas...

But yes! I for one envy your trip to Ireland. There's many many places I'd like to visit there. :)

[hagbard23.livejournal.com]

The best part of the Ireland portion of the trip was how it was handled. We rented a car in Dublin, and then just drove around. We had a couple of intended destinations: the Cliffs of Moher, Newgrange, and the Hill of Tara, and other than that, we just drove around and stopped wherever looked interesting. No set schedule or itinerary, and we'd stop at whatever B&B we ended up near that evening.

[navik.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's totally the way to do it. Vacation is about relaxing, not about adhering to some damn schedule.