Krakow

I just finished uploading my pictures from Krakow. The link's the same (I'll put it in all these posts anyways).

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Here's the narrative:

On Easter Sunday, I celebrated Easter (and the onset of break) with my roommate Jordan and our friend Rebecca with a massive Full Irish Breakfast (cooked by Jordan), a festival held by a local microbrewery, and a string quartet concert at the Cork School of Music. The next morning, Rebecca and I boarded a plane for Prague. We actually spent a full day in Prague, before taking a sleeper train that night to Krakow (I'll put those Prague pictures up with the rest of the ones from that city). The next morning, after a rather uncomfortable trip where we slept underneath a large snoring Polish man, we arrived unscathed in Krakow, took a quick nap, the went to the Royal Castle , Grand Square, and a couple churches. The next day, we spent some time in the mall (capitalism is alive and well in the East), then spent the day at Auschwitz (no pictures of that). The next day, we explored the Jewish quarter with a girl from our hostel, checked out a couple museums and churches, and caught another night train back to Prague. This one was even more awkward, as we shared the couchette car with three Russians, but again, we made it back with no problems.

Finally!!

A month and a half later, I've finally uploaded my pictures from Dublin. You can view them here

http://vinceineurope.shutterfly.com/action/

Quick backstory: Boston College gave the BC coordinator here in Cork about 300 Euro for each of use studying at UCC to spend on 'cultural experiences', which meant sending us to Dublin for St. Patrick's Day. We arrived Sunday morning (the 16th of March), spent a few hours wandering around the city and Trinity College (and saw the Book of Kells), then went back to the hotel and met up with other BC students studying around Ireland that night. The next day was devoted mostly to the parade (we had to get there hours early), and we spent the evening in the Temple Bar District (along with half the population of the city and thousands of other tourists). Pretty fun experience, especially because it was mostly on BC's budget.

I'll try to get the pictures from Krakow up tonight, and Prague by the end of the week

Photo Update coming this week

I've decided to open a shutterfly account, because uploading all these pictures to my blog individually would take forever. I'll have pictures from St. Patrick's Day in Dublin, as well as ones from Krakow and Prague, up by the end of this week.