May 7 – Day 26
You know when your car breaks down and you have a realization of how dependent you are on it to get around. Well, I had one of those realizations today with the train system. Today is a holiday here in Ireland. I haven’t quite figured out if there is a significance to the holiday. I know that the German operations took a holiday on May 1 for “May day”. I’m not sure why my office in Ireland took off May 7. Anyway, back to the train story. I decided to work on the holiday and trade it for a US holiday when I will have friends in town. I got up this morning and about 7:45 am I noticed that I hadn’t heard any trains. My apartment is very very close to the train line and I hear them going by. So, I got online and looked up the schedule only to discover the train operates on an extremely limited schedule on holidays. There was a train at 7:30am which I had just missed and the next one was not until 9:30. There went my plan to get into the office at a good time. Instead, I took my time getting ready, cooked breakfast, packed my lunch and still had time, so I was going to stop to get coffee only to realize that absolutely nothing was open. On the plus side, there are only 3 of us in the entire office where there are normally 500-600 people and I am getting lots done! And when I take the holiday on Memorial day everyone in Ireland will be working and the trains will be running and I can enjoy everything when it is less crowded!
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Anyone who knows Tara knows that a simple trip to Ikea can turn into an expedition. Now that she is going to Ireland for 6 months, what better way than a blog for her friends and families to keep up on her wild adventures!
2 comments:
Hi Tara, I was curious what was special about May 7 (although you probably found out at work today), but I guess that May 7 is when the Repulic of Ireland celebrates May Day (although I'm not totally sure what the point of May Day is, is it just the beginning of summer?)
jen
I asked some people at work about the May holiday significance and no one really knew. I checked online and an Irish newspaper said "The last public holiday to be added to the Irish calendar was the next one up, the May bank holiday, which this year falls next Monday, 7 May. This was agreed in 1994 as part of the Programme for Competitiveness and Work . . . the national agreement of the time." I guess it's just a nice day to not work.
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