where to go this time of year

[indigo_rose99]

Choosing between Texas, Ireland and China, let me strongly recommend Ireland.  The weather is beautiful here.   Weather predictions made it sound kinda cold, so I brought a light jacket.  I've worn it, but I could have lived without it.  The weather is just that perfect side of pleasantly cool.  I've been out walking yesterday and today, trying to soak up as much "where in the sky is the sun" as I can to counter my jet lag.   

Ah, finally I come to a place with decent weather.... About time!

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[reedrover]

Friends of ours had to miss our wedding because her parents treated them to an all-expenses-paid trip to Ireland. Letssee - six hours in VA vs. two weeks in Ireland... Yup. Send a postcard.

[indigo-rose99.livejournal.com]

I've never been good at postcards. I can find the card, but... stamps? Perhaps the hotel takes care of this sort of thing. But then I run into the rare problem -- specific to you -- that I do not have an address!

Do e-postcards count?

[reedrover]

Oh, no, I wasn't telling you to send me a postcard. That was a part of my story about R&A "ditching" my wedding to go to Ireland. I told them to have a wonderful time and send me a postcard rather than try to reschedule their trip to make it to the wedding...

And no, sorry, e-postcards don't quite count when you are in a foreign land. ::laugh:: I still have a book of postcards from Alberta, Canada that I picked up in 2000. Once in a while I'll send one to my niece or nephew just for the thrill of it.

[indigo-rose99.livejournal.com]

Ah! Missed that transition. So... Did they? Send you a post card, I mean.

I have friends who keep persistently sending me postcards from a variety of places. I feel the love, but then am overwhelmed with guilt because I do not send any. *guilt, guilt*

[reedrover]

::laugh:: No they didn't. I figure that the two cases of home-brewed mead that they gave us as a wedding present kind of made up for the lack of a postcard.

[skylarkthered.livejournal.com]

Ireland is indeed beautiful from July-Sept. Unfortunately, they are well aware of the fact and peak season rates are in effect. :p If time allows, get out and see the town and countryside surrounding. The towns are easily walked and the country lanes not far distant from town center. It's well worth it to see the hedgerows and flowers at sunset. :)

[indigo-rose99.livejournal.com]

I'm walking around the city in the evenings (well, both of the two evenings I've been here), but have not managed to stay awake for sunset. Plus, though Limerick is easily walkable, finding hedgerows in walking distance from my city center location is a bit more difficult. I know that there are some on the road to Dublin, but I believe that it would be a really LONG walk from here. *laugh* I'll ask around. I suspect the hotel and my students will give me strange looks. "Where are the what?!"

They tell me that the summer this year has been unusually wet. My Irish students say that their children are complaining because the weather only turned nice in the last week (when they had to go back to school).