{"id":825,"date":"2014-06-10T10:33:42","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T08:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2014\/?p=825"},"modified":"2014-06-10T10:33:42","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T08:33:42","slug":"carpe-diem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2014\/2014\/06\/10\/carpe-diem\/","title":{"rendered":"Carpe Diem"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2026not carpe just half the fucking diem!<\/p>\n

That is why on Sunday, I got up at 8.45am, had breakfast and at 9.20am left the house to go (as in walk) to Howth. Google says that I walked around 32km that day but it\u2019s not as accurate and it was more than that because I also did quite a lot of back and forth around the paths there. I did 47634 steps which brought me to a total of 136467 steps and my team of 7 people to 643791 for the week.<\/p>\n

I actually awoke to the sound of rain which kind of put my mood down but I was still hell-bent on doing this walk. The rain only lasted a few minutes and then the sun tried her best to dry up the streets and sidewalks. It wasn\u2019t dry but quite warm when I left the house and started towards Artane Castle to buy water and a snack at Tesco.<\/p>\n

I continued down the road a few minutes later and turned left at the T-junction, walking towards the Artane roundabout. I wound my way through the streets of Dublin this way and soon came to Dublin Road which is kind of a coastal road leading to the Howth peninsula. It started to drizzle even before I came to that road but as I turned onto it, the wind from the sea was so strong that the tiny raindrops „fell“ horizontally and felt like needles, piercing the right side of my face. I kept walking and soon felt like this was some kind of punishment I had to withstand to be worthy of the sight that would be at the end of this road. The rain kept on lashing me for quite a while and only stopped when I reached Sutton which is located right at the entry of the peninsula. Of course, the rain started again a few minutes later and continued all the way until I reached the end of Howth harbor and the public restrooms. I was so unbelievably happy to see those restrooms.<\/p>\n

I thought about having lunch in one of the restaurants but I don\u2019t really care for seafood that much and considering the prices displayed on the menues, I stopped caring about \u201creal\u201d food altogether. I grabbed the small bag filled with nuts and raisins that I bought at Tesco earlier and took a couple of hands full. 200g of this mix really fill you up even though the taste isn\u2019t as satisfying as that a nice steak with French fries would deliver, accompanied by a nice Guinness. Anyway, it kept me going and so I walked around the peninsula, came by the lighthouse, the beach and walked all the way back towards my home. Those last kilometers were really difficult and I had to sit down a few times just to rest my feet. My ankles and even my hips started to hurt before I finally arrived home. I had the dinner that was waiting for me in the oven, took a shower and went to bed, happy that I had used the day the way I did.<\/p>\n

Please, take the time to enjoy these photographs:<\/p>\n