Photo: August trips Italy-Slovenia

Ronchi dei Legionari, WWI memorial in Redipuglia

Here on monumental terraces are buried the remains of 100,187 fallen: 39,857 known and 60,330 unknown

Aquileia

Basilica of Aquileia, 1031, rebuilt in 1379

Castle Duino, Sistiana and Porto Piccolo

Castle Duino

Soča

Korita Mostnice

Waterfall Mostnica

Vogel

View of Lake Bohinj

Felt ice cold

And to end the day we went to Bled for kremšnite :P

Photo: Ireland

Ireland, always dreamed of visiting one day, and this year I finally did! 7 days, well 6 to be telling the truth (it took us one day to get to Dublin, felt like flying to the end of the world) and 1.500 photographs, 20 videos. The path we took was something like this: Venice-Frankfurt-London-Dublin, then Belfast, Derry, Donegal, Sligo, Westport, Galway, Aran Islands (Inishmore), Cliffs of Moher, Ring of Kerry, Killarney, Watervillage, Cork, Cahir, Cashel, Killkenny and back to Dublin airport. 7 different hotels, and only one of them had a ghost in the room ;) 35 people plus tour guide and a driver, a very pleasant bunch. As there is a lot of photographs, it took me some time to put something together, so here it is:

Since we missed two connected flights I had the opportunity of sitting by the window and viewing London as we landed (such a big city)

I loved that every night we spent in a different hotel. The hotel that impressed me the most was Jameson, but I don't remember in which town.

Molly Malone and a pub in Dublin, others are details from Belfast.

Belfast, the dock where Titanic and Olympic were made (when she left, she was fine). A very interesting walk.

Giant's Causeway, the audio guide you receive on entering here is really great.

Peace lines and monument for Bloody sunday

Mostly from Donegal.

Sligo, with W.B. Yeats grave

Carrowmore

Monument dedicated to Great Famine

Kylemore Abbey

On Inishmore, one of Aran Islands, we rented bikes and biked across it.

Worm Hole, one of the most amazing things we saw.

Cliffs of Moher

Bunratty Village

Bunratty Castle

On the way through Ring of Kerry we also had the opportunity of listening to Irish pipes.

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Lots of stories gather in such a short amount of time. It was worth it. And since I love music, here are a few Irish tunes as well:

Sláinte! ;)

Poem: Losing

another street

another chance

yet she runs away

'cause it's all she's ever known

all she's ever loved has perished

no safe ground to land on

and her wings flutter with madness

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no matter how familiar a name can sound

no matter where home can be felt

it all disappears, even if guarded

the surface of our hearts torn

from all the shakes we let in

this man-made suffering

can make a stone of the heart

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losing is a game of the wind

the speed at which it takes

the blows it leaves behind

the chills it sets down the skin

there are galaxies hidden in the stories we write

and some words too, may lose their meaning

but in doing so what do they gain?

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Yesterday I watched a movie called Short term 12; and since lately I've been feeling like I'm losing everything and everyone, this poem just poured out.