Visiting
Dublin, Ireland/Carlos Pueblo
It was raining
when I arrived at Dublin, I managed to get up and off
the bus and
the difficult part was try to find my hostel on lower
Garden
Street because the numbers arrangement were very much
different from
what I understood. Finally, as usual, I asked enough
people and
reached my address. I was wet including all my belonging.
The inn has
been more than 100 years yet still in very good order.
Many guests
use the kitchen facility which is very convenient to me
to prepare
my own food other than others soup for instance.
Lower Garden
is perpendicular to the River Liffey only a few blocks away.
During the
old time, big sails could reach the city on the river; therefore
most of the
historical buildings are on both sides of the river and can be
track back
to more than a thousand years. I had had something in my mind,
I only had
my second chip for my Canon camera and I liked to get a spare
one in case
that I needed it. I turned right or west on Talbot Street, a familiar
Irish name,
to the old town shopping center and turned again back to O’Connell
toward the
river, they called Quay to be near the river banks.
Dublin is
very dynamic, new building and the innovation of the aged. I always
like to
visit this island nation. One year during an election in Taiwan, Mary Robinson
was invited
to be an observer by the opposition party, and she was prohibited to
greet
Taiwanese on a podium. The opposition party is now the incumbent in Taiwan.
She
mentioned something about the famine in Ireland during her visit. Two years
ago,
I watched a
Taiwanese television talk show about Irish national capital income. The
number is
higher than Britain and I check it truth. It is true and the number is
approaching
that of the
United States. I know the statistic sometimes mislead the reader such as
Chinese GDP
versus people’s wealth. Recently, Ireland encourages foreign investment;
therefore,
foreign capital pulls in increase the gross domestic product number, divided
by the same
national population become a higher national income average, actually the
nation is
still poor yet better off than some of the rest of the world. I have seen many
foreigners
working in Dublin.
I got my
camera chip with 6,000 shots at one big Fuji camera shop on the south side of
the
River near
Trinity College where I discovered another wonderful cherry blossom.
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