What was I thinking?
I was out of the building by 8:30, and I walked up to the Garden of Remembrance only to find it closed. I mean, I didn't expect it to be garden-y in February, but I didn't expect a locked gate. The other thing I never considered was the cross-shaped pool. In the bottom is a mosaic of Celtic weapons, signifying how people would make peace by throwing their weapons into the water. But - duh - it's February, it's cold, it "snowed" yesterday. So, of course, it was frozen. I couldn't have seen it even if the park was open. So I walked back down O'Connell and took some pictures by the river.
It is rush hour and there are people everywhere, cars, buses, bicycles. I couldn't live that way, pushing past people, cramming onto a bus every morning and evening. And people with no cars have to get everything home that way. I saw a woman yesterday with an ironing board, a guy with a kayak paddle, and a woman with a shelving unit in a box. And we gripe about having to park too far from the door at Target.
Since the money has changed, they don't have "pound" stores (like dollar stores) here anymore. Now they are "two euro" stores - everything is two euro.
10:00 a.m. God help me. The only person who can give directions in English here now is one of the servers from breakfast, and she is not from here, and doesn't know where the M1 is. Great. This should be fun.
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