Over a month has gone by without us posting any updates… I guess after 9 months of living somewhere you kind of get used to the place and what seems odd and exciting for the first few months becomes quite ordinary. Maybe it’s time to think about a relocation? 
Anyway, in the last month we’ve made it to Strasbourg, France and Poland. Both Strasbourg and Poland welcomed us with a very nice weather and, coming to think of it, the weather in Dublin wasn’t that bad, either. I guess early fall is just the time to visit Europe.
In Strasbourg we visited Radek’s cousin, Kasia, who currently lives there. It was nice not to have to lug our guide books along and be able to rely on a “local” guide to show us the city. You can see some of the pictures we took here.
Poland was a good, week-long, review of Heather’s Polish language skills as she was thrown onto “deep waters” and had to sell chrysanthemum plants for All Saint’s Day. She did very well the first couple of days… then either a mosquito or chrysanthemum pollen got her and she got an allergic reaction making her left eye swell to the point she couldn’t open it. Because of that she spent the last day of sales at home.
This last weekend we tried to conquer one of the local landmarks we haven’t been to, yet — the hill with the antenas (it’s really visible from just about anywhere in Dublin). Unfortunately, the weather wasn’t very cooperative and the lack of any marked trails made us wander in the sun/mist/sun/fog/sun/rain/more rain for some time around the hills without getting to the top of the hill. We did meet some interesting… donkeys, though (pictures here).
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