Pepe had surgery

After arriving in Faro, we went to my town in Huelva and, shortly after that, Pepe and I drove to Seville to visit Jose, Javi and Pablo.

We went to the city centre for some tapas and cañas but Pepe decided to stay home. I guess that coming from Ireland the temperature change (today it was 32ºC in Seville) might have affected him so we found Pepe wearing a Venetian mask and strangling Kenny to death with an earphone wire...!


Fortunately Pablo is a student of medicine in Seville and figured out what was wrong with him. It seems that too much alcohol in Ireland had heavy and massively affected Pepe's liver and was causing him some kind of dementia. Thus, he decided to remove and replace his liver for a new more resistant one.






Now we hope Pepe will be able to join us for some beers tonight.

Waiting at the airport

Pepe's next scheduled destination after arriving in Ireland was Switzerland, but we've had some unexpected problems and he'll be going to Germany instead. However, the delay will allow him to come with me to Spain, where we'll be visiting my family after a week of hard working at Tyndall.

Now we are in Shannon's airport, where we've spent the whole night because our flight to Faro is scheduled at 6:25 am and there's no bus services from Cork that early.


Quite luckily, Shannon's airport provides free WiFi access for all passengers so we've been doing some internet surfing!

Dublin

For the weekend Pepe and I went to visit Gupi in Dublin. Gupi and I went together to college in Tenerife. Last year right before graduating in physics he decided to go to Dublin to learn some English. He enjoyed the experience and after doing his last exams he came back to the island. Now he's looking for a PhD position to continue with his career.

Here in Ireland, all the public holidays (except Christmas) are always on Monday, so the so-called mayday, the worker's day, which in most of Europe takes place the 1st of May, here was celebrated the 4th. I guess the day depends on that year's calendar.


There's a lot to see in Dublin, but Pepe, Gupi and I focussed on the Irish national and widespread sport - drinking. We were partying all over the weekend and, specially on Saturday, I guess we partied too much...


Irish people are kind and open, and it's easy to make friends and chat with unknowns in any pub around the city. We also got to know some friends of Gupi from the language course he's attending. There were many beautiful girls that I unsuccessfully tried to convince I'm from Liechtenstein... I thought I was better at this...

Anyway, Dublin is a nice vibrant city full of pubs (there was even one inside a former church!) but watch out your money, you won't be paying less than 5 euro a pint!