Ireland, I'm coming back for you soon!

It has been a long, long 7 months that I have been away from Ireland. But that is all gonna change. I still have an internship to be completed as a part of my tourism studies in Finland and doing that internship in Ireland felt like an obvious choice to me. And, after months and months of waiting, uncertainty and dozens and dozens of sent applications, my hard work finally paid off: I got an internship place in Ireland! And this means that I'll get to spend an entire summer in Ireland. Which, let's face it, is like a dream come true to me. So yeah, sometimes, dreams do come true.

Since I started writing this blog during my Erasmus exchange in Sligo, I figured that this other, a little different Irish experience, would be the perfect opportunity to continue writing it.

I will write more about my experiences regarding Ireland, my internship etc. once I'll actually arrive there. For now, I'm gonna keep it short and only tell the basic things about the upcoming internship.

This time, I won't be going back to Sligo. Don't get me wrong, I did try to get an internship there,but no luck. And after sending in applications to numerous hotels and some restaurants in several cities all over Ireland, without getting hardly any replies back (not, even the simple, no, we can't offer you an internship), I started to get a little desperate. But my desperation was premature. I finally got good news from a small hotel in Western Ireland. 

So, the place for my internship for the summer will be Ashford Court Boutique Hotel, located in Ennis, Co. Clare. I have never been to Ennis before, but based on the photos I've seen online, it looks like a lovely little town. Though, Ennis won't be the town where I'll be living in. Due to practical reasons, mostly to do with finding an apartment, I'll be living in Galway and commuting to Ennis by a train or a bus, depending on my shifts.

My internship will officially start on June the 1st, but I will travel to Ireland a little bit in advance. I will fly to Dublin on May 25th and stay there a couple of days. And starting on May 27th, I'll be able to call Galway home.My internship will go on till the end of August. 

So all in all, I have most likely the best summer of my life ahead of me. But I will tell more about my short trip to Dublin, my first impressions on Galway as my new hometown, my internship and all my other experiences in the upcoming posts. So bye! For now.

PS: A post without any photos would be a bit dull, so here are some photos from a short trip I did to Sligo in October:

Benbulben mountain, Rosses Point 

Bundoran Beach, Bundoran

Sligo!

So much for the "bad" Irish weather. Nice and summer-like, even though it's October!