Dublin

I'm heading to Dublin in a weeks time, and the only thing I know I would love to visit is the Trinity College Library. Trinity College is Ireland's oldest university, founded in 1592 under Elizabth 1. The library was built between 1712 and 1732. It is Ireland's largest research library and is a legal deposit library (which means that they are entitled to a copy of every book published in Great Britain). At the moment it has 5 million books, in addition to manuscripts, serials, maps and printed music. In Trinity Collee Library you can find the Book of Kells, the Book of Durrow, Book of Howth and Brian Boru harp (one of the three surviving medieval Gaelic harps!). So, four good reasons to visit this library!

Other sites I've thought of visiting: The National Museum of Archeology and History, Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin Castle, National Botanic Gardens and lots of other smaller sites.


Have you been to Dublin? Anything you would recommend me to see?

Summer plans

Only three weeks left, and then I can take a well deserved break. So here are my plans:

Read:
I can read all the boks I want, and let me tell you: the list is long! I'll write an entry about my summer reads list as soon as I've got the time. I'm planning to spend as much time outside with a good book as I possibly can, and to only spend time on the computer when i's raining or when the sun has gone down.

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Travel:
I'm staying in Sitges with my mum and my dad for a week in July. It will be nice to get some sun and to take a day trip to see Barcelona. I'm also traveling to London with my sister in June. She has only been there once, and that is about 5-6 years ago, so it will be lovely to show her the city I hold so dearly. Hopefully, I'll get the chance to see Dublin with the boy, and to take a short trip to Brighton to see if it's a city I would like to live in for 3 years. And if there is some time left, I hope we can stay in our cabin for some days.

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Sew:
I'm planning to learn how to sew, to buy some patterns and to fix some of the dresses I've got laying around.

Write:
I've been thinking about starting to write again, and I've got the idea for a book. I don't think I will have the time to start writing this summer, but hopefully I can start finding some sources, facts, etc for the book I'm planning.

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Blog:
Finally, I can start writing more entrys for this blog. I want to continue on some of the series I had going on, but I've also planned some new entries. I'm thinking about having a giveaway as well.

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Bristol, Cardiff and London buys...

Navy brough shoes from River Island

Black handmade leather bag from Etui London

Coral platform sandals with wooden cork sole from Dorothy Perkins

YSL Touche Eclat Radiant Touch (nr1), MAC Pro Palette, MAC eyeshadow (Malt and Haux), MAC lip pencil in Redd, MAC concealer brush, MAC concealer (moisturecover NW15), MAC sheer/loose powder, Soap & Glory scrub

Four new books

Blouse from Therapy (House of Fraser)

Blouse from Topshop

Bristol

I'm traveling to Bristol on wednesday to visit a friend. I've never been to Bristol, so do you have any good tips on what to do or see? maybe some good vintage stores, markeds, etc? We are going to Cardiff for a day as well, so any tip on some good sights to see in Cardiff would be most welcome.

Here are some pictures from Trädgårdsforeningen

I'm not dead...yet

Ok ok, I've been bloody terrible at writing something new at this place. I've been busy thinking about all the stuff I should have done that I've practically have done nothing that I should have been doing. I've been living in Oslo the last two weeks, and this will be my home for some years (at the least) and I have started at UIO-Literature studies (which will be my home for at least three years). I will try to get some pictures of my newly decorated room, but I have no idea how to get the pics from my camera to my computer, at the moment.

So, here are some pictures I've already got on my computer; the pics from Paris: