Waterloo! Part 2! Please watch video below if you haven't.

World's worst blogger, back in the house! So I moved this week from Arklow/Gorey back to Dublin. While I have SO enjoyed my time with the Blacks down on the beautiful coast, it was time for me to be closer to college, closer to friends, and as it turns out, closer to various embassies and the painter Francis Bacon's birthplace (hopefully it wasn't this area that inspired the creepiness of his art...). So I moved to Waterloo Road! It's really close to Dublin city center, and right around the corner is Baggot Street- probably one of the coolest streets ever.

Anyway, there it is. Another discovery: this area is where all the embassies are located, and apparently the police. I feel pretty safe, needless to say. Thus far I've found quite a few embassies, including Romanian, Brazilian and Israeli (which of course made me happy!) 

So more pictures of the area, for your viewing pleasure, including my actual house. This kind of architecture is Georgian style- they are all individual houses, but stuck together. And HUGE. It may not look like it, but these houses are very old and massive. That just comes along with living in the old and wealthiest part of Dublin. Another note: me and Layna had a calendar of the "Doors of Dublin" which I always wondered where all the cool doors were exactly in Dublin. Turns out they are here!

The one above with the green door is mine, though I technically live on the ground floor and have a different entrance. Here are some pics of the inside! 

I really love it. Only downside: I STILL cannot figure out the water heating. You have to let it heat in advance or else you not only get a cold shower, it's FREEZING. Painfully so...people say love is a battlefield, well, my shower is a battlefield. A daily battlefield that leaves me with blue lips and shampoo congealed in my hair. Anyway, shout out to my friend who helped me find this place and my parents for being super cool with everything...you guys rock my socks. And here's a little more bloggage since it will probably be another two months before I blog again- 

We went into the city on Saturday to see the traditional music festival that was going on all week. Leprechauns were rampant in the city, as were bagpipers and...black midgets dressed as leprechauns. He was very graceful during my extremely awkward and slightly rude attempt to take a picture of him.

Thanks for reading everyone, miss ya tons.

Waterloo!

So I moved to Waterloo Road, in Dublin. And if you're anything like me, this video is immediately what your mind jumps to when you read "Waterloo". Because naturally Colin Firth in skin tight flaming bell-bottoms and platform shoes is in the very front of your mind.