voglia di viaggiare

si - e vero - mi e venuta voglia di viaggiare... di andare in posti dove sempre volevo andare, e mai (fin'oggi) non sono stata - come norveggia, o finlandia, oppure danimarca... e poi le isole azore (si scrive cosi in italiano?? cmq - sono le "AZORES" per chi non capirebbe), e poi - russia ("la via d'oro" - che porta da una ad altra chies[-ett]a di legno, tra non so dove e mosca... sapete quanto deve essere bello???). ma - per ora - sto solo qua, con un viaggietto a casa domani, ritornante domenica... hmmm, quanto mi adrebbe viaggiare... a voi?

it's just that i really feel like - travelling... like going places i always wanted to go - like scandinavia, or russia ("the golden path"), or azores... strange? well, is it? not really... for now though - will just stick around here, with a truly brief visit home tomorrow, returning on sunday... but - really just feeling like - - - TRAVELLING... you?

HOVORIM ZE SA MI AKOSI CHCE CESTOVAT A TARAT PO SVETE - DO NORSKA BY SOM ZASLA, ALEBO DO FINSKA, CI DANSKA... A POTOM NA AZORY. A POTOM AJ DO RUSKA (POZNATE "ZLATU CESTU"? OD JEDNEJ RDEVENEJ CERKVI K DRUHEJ, ZACINA SA NEVIEM KDE ALE VIEM KDE SA KONCI - V MOSKVE... HMMM, TO BY BOLO). NATERAZ ALE SOM LEN PEKNE TU, V DUBLINE, S MALOU "ZDRAVOTNOU VYCHADZKOU" DOMOV, NA SLOVENSKO - ZAJTRA, NAVRAT V NEDELU... HMMM, ALE BY SOM SI POCESTILA... A VY?

OXEGEN a' la catholica!!! Clonmacnoise

Fantastic Youth Festival in the middle of Ireland (Co. Offaly), in a middle of nowhere - huge fields, filled with music, laughter, praise and prayer, tears of happinness, forgiveness and love... That was my last week-end. Went with Kay, my friend from work, and truly enjoyed it. People still know how to have fun with no drugs, no booz, no sex... How uplifting!!! Go Youth 2000, go!!!

Food marqueese (do you say/spell it like this??). With Kay. And hundreds of other young(-er) people.
These are all SLOVAKS... Could you believe that? There were 7 of us there!!! As everyone knows - 7 IS the perfect number. And even if it wasn't, it was, for us, there and then! L-R: Monika, muself, Emil, Maria, Daska, Fr. Patrick, and ... oohhh, I forgot his name... Juraj?

Unlike majority of particiants - Kay and I stayed in a lovely cosy little B&B (€36 per night and b-fast), close by - in Shannon Bridge. If anyone of you wanted to spend time in those parts of Ireland and is looking for a good place to stay and a great food to eat - let me know!

PETER CIP in town :-)

Peter Cip - a dear friend from times back in Rome. Brought over a bunch of young people (on their way back form Medjugorje) s0 - after years (was it 4?? yes - it was!!) we met again - in a city of Dublin, on irish island - a priest from the USA and me - little Slovak pilgrim (or gypsy if you will...). Had it not been for a headache that was killing me, I would say - short but great meeting... And - as pictures can make you inderstand - we met by the Guinness Factory... Heee :-) This is a licence for 9000 years, given to so-and-so Guinness... So it looks like, if the world is still up and running in 8000 and somethng years - there still will be also Guinness.... Hm, dunno, is it a good news, or rather not?
Afterwards "shopping break down" in Dublin down-town... Aren't they "luvly"???

BRAY s Davidovcami

Dalsou s nasich "destinacii" bolo BRAY a GREYSTONES - juzne od Dublina / Blackrock-u. Je to primorske mestecko irskeho charakteru, mile a farbiste. V den ked sme tam boli - tam boli "trhy" - kolotoce, husenkova draha, banji-jumping, atd. - cize kopec ludi (hoci nie az taky kopec aky by si clovek predstavoval... mozno bolo este na Irov priskoro...). Dali sme si po peknom kolaci, Matko so mnou horucu coko, Karin s Davidom po Irskej kave... A vybrali sme sa na prechadzku popri plazi (vid na fotke - Davidko pekne bosky... :-)) While here, my bro and his family also went to Bray and Greystones (south of Dublin and Blackrock) to see the sea... So these are a few pics from that afternoon. As it was Sunday, I went with them...

Tuhla Pecovka to pereput, more v pravo, v pozadi domy popri brayskej plazicke (mimochodom - je kamienkova...)
Toto je pohlad na Bray z cesty ktora vedie az do Graystones - teda zo zaciatku casty. My sme sa vydali nie popri plazi, ale cez kopce (strmo bolo coz by ani tak moc nevadilo - len - nechcite tade schadzat po tom ako vydatne sprchlo... to ak, tak sa treba pripravit na smykacku po zadnici, a preventivne ziadne nobl nohavice...).
Toto su chalani s v pozadi zatokou pri Bray. Celkom sa aj vyjasnilo kym sme vysli, akokolvek - kym sme dosli do Graystones, boli sme aj zmoknuti do nite, a aj naspat vyschnuti... To irske pocasicko, vsak ano!!!

No a toto je aby ste nezabudli ako vyzeram aj ja - veru veru, taku krasu si netreba nechat ujst! Hi hi hi hi hi!

Glendalough 3 - Miners' Village (used-to-be)

No - a tuhla par fotiek od osady banikov. Komentuju sa dobre aj bez komentara, nie?

Glendalough 2 - vychadzka popri jazerach

Tuhla - par fotiek z "vystupu" popri jazerach. David bol uneseny raseliniskami ktore sa tam dookola rozprestieraju, s raselinikom vsade okolo. Voda v potoku co tade preteka, ako aj v jazere, je velmi tmava - vraj preto, ze je tam vsade raselina. Tak sa spolieham na spravnost informacie a vysvetlenia :-)

Pohlad na dolinu zhora - odtial kde sa uz voda padila (cize - od vodopadu). Skoda ze sa nam nepodarilo dostat az hore... Nabuduce...

Glendalough s Davidovcami

Otec Michael hovori ze je to hriech ze som sa dostala do Glendalough-u az teraz... Ja hovorim ze je lepsie neskor ako nikdy :-)
V sobotu 2. augusta sme sli na pol-dnovy vylet do Glendalough-u. Je to vo Wicklow-skych horach, na juhozapad od Dublina. Starodavne mnisske miesto (Sv. Kevin), na irke pomery celkom majestatne vyzerajuce crchy, dve jazera, prechod popri starej banickej osade a vystup popri vodopadoch veduce nevieme kam, pretoze sme ho neabsolvovali...

Na tejto fotke Martin s Davidom s v pozadi kostolom meno ktoreho som nezaregistrovala...

Davidovci s v pozadi znamou Glendalough-skou vezou. Pocasie, ako mozete vidiet, bolo take - velmi "irske" - slnecno/oblacno/dazdivo vsetko v jednom. Aspon nebolo prilis horuco...

Od zrucanin kostolikov a veze sme sa vydali popri mensom jazere a potom popri vacsom jazere hore smerom na osadu banikov (Miners' Vilage) a k vodopadom. S tym ze uvidime kam az dojdeme - cas bol neuprosny a mali sme na to vsetko asi 4 hodiny.

DAVID v meste / in town

V utorok 29. juna, na poludnie, doleteli do Dublina na navstevu (dovolenku) Davidko s Karin a Martinom. Odchadzaju zajtra - 5. augusta a tieto tu su niektore s fotiek ktore som nafotila pocas nasich par spolocnych dni.

Hned v prvy den, na ceste do Dun Laoghaire, kde sme sa boli "zasobit" potravinami a, zaroven, kde sa moji traja zoznamili s DART-om (Dublin Area Rapid Transport - v podstate nadzemne dublinske "metro") tak, aby potom vedeli ako a odkial cestovat.

Este stale prvy den, toto uz na ceste z Tesca a z pinty piva (dali sme si - David s Karin Guinness-a, Martin a ja horucu cokoladu - v jednom miestnom pub-e, od smadu a aj ako opatrenie proti dazdu - vid mokry chodnik). V pozadi, len velmi "symbolicky" (ten fotoaparat sa akosi kazi...) je vidno cast Dun Laoghairskeho pristavu.

V stredu obisli celkom pekny kus mesta. Tato fotka je ale az zo stvtrku, ked obisli zostavajucu cast mesta a ked sme sa stretli (po mojej robote) v centre. V pozadi za nasimi je vidno (zle som si to nastelovala, ale som sa snazila zachytit ludkov namiesto budovy - ved, viem, dalo sa aj oboje...) Trinity College. Ako vidite - pocasie celkom prialo...

Tuto je David so mnou - sedime na Pearse Station, cakajuc na vlak domov. Jesto viacej fotiek, ale tie su uz menej verejneho charakteru :-)

Solzenicyn

Zomrel vcera, v nedelu 3. augusta (2008), vo veku 89 rkov, na infarkt.
Odpocinutie vecne daj mu, Pane!