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After Bruges I took a bus back to Brussels, where I hung out for a while waiting After Bruges I took a bus back to Brussels, where I hung out for a while waiting
for my next bus which would take me across the pond. for my next bus which would take me across the pond.
## London, UK ## London, England
Getting to London was honestly one of the most exciting parts of that trip. The Getting to London was honestly one of the most exciting parts of that trip. The
Channel Tunnel, or "Chunnel", runs from France, underneath the English Channel, Channel Tunnel, or "Chunnel", runs from France, underneath the English Channel,
@ -320,3 +320,39 @@ me. The museums were insanely crowded, with everyone pushing over themselves to
fill out their selfie-with-famous-objects-bingo-cards; my hostel was weird (all fill out their selfie-with-famous-objects-bingo-cards; my hostel was weird (all
of my hostels in the UK were weird, in fact; more on that in Ireland); and of my hostels in the UK were weird, in fact; more on that in Ireland); and
everything was quite expensive. I wasn't too sad to leave. everything was quite expensive. I wasn't too sad to leave.
## Dublin, Ireland
My bus dropped me off at a small ferry terminal in Holyhead, a town in Wales.
From there I took the couple-hour ferry ride to Dublin.
I spent only a couple of days in Dublin, but one of those days I struggled to be
a living human while fighting off the flu. I still managed to walk down to
Trinity College to see The Book of Kells and the college library's Long Room,
but the memory of it is fuzzy. I'm sure I looked as dead as the people who wrote
those books.
That day I mostly hung out at the hostel. Hostels in the UK have a very
different atmosphere than everywhere else; there's a fairly bad housing crisis
occurring in most major cities (like the three I went to), and often it's
cheaper to live in a hostel than to rent an apartment. So the hostels I stayed
in were filled with people who'd been there for months, some of them working,
others trying to find work, others just lounging. But the dichotomy between
people who were just passing through and people who were there long term made it
a less than stellar experience. The long-term residents all knew each other and
formed cliques, and generally took up the common spaces, so if you weren't
already traveling with others (like me) it was pretty easy to feel excluded.
On the second day I decided to go on a day trip out of Dublin. The city was
neat, but I wasn't finding all that much I wanted to do inside of it. I found a
bus company which did day trips to Glendalough, a valley which holds
the ruins of a 6th century monastary, a beautiful lake, many hiking trails, and
some sheep. I spent the day hiking, wandering around the ruins, and escaping an
incoming snow storm. By the end of it all my sickness from the previous day was
completely gone, and I slept the whole bus ride back.
## Edinburgh, Scotland
I left Dublin just as the Beast from the East made landfall. A giant cold wave
brought in tons of snow and unseasonably low temperatures, stretching all across
Europe.