Hello friends,
After a month I finally find time to document my first major trip to the South in my blog. Perhaps initially anticipated another. The rumor that I'll only drink Guinness and live in constant state party is over exaggerated! In fact, I dedicated myself here on occasion of high culture (a term I really hate, because he is "posh", elitist and aristocratic, and that's all Yuck). Will say: I'm simply beautiful Music belongs: on Saturday, 6th February, I was at the Arts Centre (Theatre) in Omagh and the three Irish tenors have heard. Fantastic, no shit! Classics like "O sole mio" or songs of ABBA and Elvis, etc. Some songs were sung so beautifully that I was just in a trance. And finally, on 4 March, was at the Arts Centre, the Spring Concert of the Omagh Academy (my school in Omagh) and world-class no joke, it was! This school has it can be a lot of money, Gospel Singer-teachers and to engage percussion teacher from Belfast! But mainly it was the power the music teacher and the students who have exams in addition to all her crazy shit that the pull here, rehearsing for this concert. It was all there: an energetic Gospel choir, country, Irish folk, rock and roll, classical, musicals - the pobligen 8 pounds were a joke for this concert! The tenors have taken course 20 pounds, while the school concert was much better
Now to the actual topic.! Cork
Claire Morgane (French . Group), Denis and I (Group are dt) of 12 Feb to 15. February flew from the south. From Dublin to Cork. Cork is the second largest city of the Republic of Ireland (and the third largest of the island) and is at the southern tip. It is a modern university town with many shops astray, but that the total population of Münster and Bielefeld is to be compared. I should let them speak, given the myriad of images, the images themselves. short, it should be explained that we have seen, the two most remarkable places in Cork's environment: The gourmet's paradise and old fishing village of Kinsale and Cobh (ausgespr. Kouf * *), in which the "Harbour of Tears" was situated, from where the 19th Century, many Irishmen left their poor island to seek their fortune overseas.
City air: Cork's main shopping street with quirky modern lanterns.
from the pub - after checking into the (very cozy) Hostel, we have enjoyed the pubs with their live music. However, the price of a pint of beer in the Republic of inhuman: 4 € or more! The liver's thanks =)
Of the Alkis the Studis ** Sometimes the same thing, hm ??**: The University of Cork, that looks partly like Harry Potter's school. Malicious tongues say, Anglo-Saxon university to see all this: pseudo-old monasteries. Well, better than my beloved University of Bielefeld can see it out already, I have to admit grudgingly.
Now I will bore you with the first churches. But it is realistic. Church is important in Ireland. Here are the most Catholic, abortion opponents have a strong lobby and Jesus is everywhere - but that their very future on a Photo detail.
Church 1: Any church at night, on the way to the hostel.
Church 2: The same church during the day =)
Church 3: Roman temple, built by Emperor Augustus 5 AD, during his great expedition Hibernian ....
** ** NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT fell for,! The Romans were Ollen (as far as I know!) Never Hibernia, Ireland and the Catholic Church is simply shameless (!!!) the Roman Temples have been modeled. At Jupiter Optimus Maximus!!
We have been in Cork on a concert: A Tom Waits tribute band has a pretty good show delivered, although the concert was a bit too long (after about three "last song" because the next DJ did not come) - it was rather slow, melancholy Waits songs. Thanks to Constance (my colleague in Enniskillen) and modern technology, I have now by the way the entire life's work of TW on my hard drive =)
Kinsale impressed us with several things : It has a port, it has colorful houses (also suitable for giants, as you can see) ...
... fish & chips with freshly caught fish!! Yammmiiiii ....** And Kinsale is probably the only place in Ireland where to properly baked bread from the continent, as genuine, even to buy homemade pies. It is very touristy there, with cafes and so on, but we have to hike to the fort (see below) in a café, as we saw in Germany can not be found better to let go very well! ** ;
In Kinsale, the former bottleneck for trade between France and Ireland, is a huge fort (the "Charles Fort") from the 15th Century, which played in the conflicts between England and France and the struggle of Ireland for independence over the centuries, a not unimportant role ("Battle of Kinsale" 1601). The position has been strategically located at the entrance to a bay, the architecture is a star shape out of a picture book, like fortifications built in the early modern period. The second picture shows the view from the fort on Kinsale - we walked there and back. Mind you, you see only top weather on our photos and it was actually consistently sunny, BUT: still zero just over
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Also discovered I have personally Kinsale in the gate of heaven! See for yourself .. But big disappointment: I have several times EXPECTING PREGNANT ** ger a word that come all too easily forgotten is! ** pressed the bell, but God was not home. Or he would not let me :-(
Since Kinsale is just a village, there are of course not as much traffic. Nevertheless, Denis tries to make the market for good German style EFFICIENT . Bravo, Denis!
children seem not to be as desirable as one would think a country of Catholics in Ireland ... ATTENTION CHILDREN!
Okay, enough geblödelt, We are again very seriously back to church, my friends interested in culture: Our day trip from Cork to Cobh ** Wow, by train! Normally, are there any in Ireland is not so ...** has also paid off as to Kinsale. Cobh is domniert by a huge, French-Gothic cathedral from 1915. Really huge. What the Catholic. Church has since invested again, not bad!
Oh yeah, this is the house of Mr. Jesus .... We trust in you, man! What actually comes from his heart? Can the times someone for me to find out theologically and comment here? "Sacred Heart" is the name I think (there are dozens of churches and colleges or Sacred Heart Primary School, etc.), determined symbolizes his love or something.
more than olle kitsch image of Mr. J has me interested but a statue for the victims of a ger-submarine attack from the 1 . WK and the people who helped the drowning man, was set up. In the attack of the U-ger boat on the civilian ship Lusitania on 7 May 1915 killed 1,200 people! This Incident also contributed decisively to the United States to win the war against Germany.
On our last day in Cork is the old prison Cork visited, in 1923, closed after the Irish Civil War. This was despite the annoying German audio guide very interesting. Four things in particular: 1) If you were poor, and have fought for your survival, you came in the 19th Century because of ridiculous crimes to prison 2) of the Great Famine are people deliberately went to prison in order not to starve on the street! 3) Children of 10 or 12 years were also imprisoned and systematically punished physically (eg 1x per week 10 lashes with a rod) and 4) The prison has no one made a better person.
So Cork was really great! The week after I'm once again been in Donegal - but this time on the coast. The photos of the cliffs and the landscape are a dream. I will update the blog tomorrow. Now I have to sleep, there is a clock at night and my dark circles will not tomorrow be too deep.
Adieu
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