Hello there,
once again back to tell and show bits of the places I visit.
Today’s destination is ‘Limerick’.
Some facts from Wikipedia.org:
Limerick, in Irish ‘Luimneach‘, is the third largest city in Ireland (The republic) and the second largest city in the county of Munster (mid and southwest of Ireland).
The day I planned to visit Limerick I felt sick, a painful headache and cold, but, as I had already bought the bus tickets, I was almost forced to go there anyway.
For this post I mostly tell the trip using the pictures I have taken as not much really happened, also maybe because of my temporary impaired health conditions.
[St. John's Cathedral]
In Limerick there is a place where many people come to buy and sell local products, the ‘Milk Market’. It was a nice place, there many interesting goods (mostly food) as well as people performing for some spare change.
[Invisible Man in 'The Drummer']
(Yes he is invisible)
From the Milk Market, I then moved more into the ‘Downtown’.
Limerick to me looks a relatively small city with all the characteristics of a big one: a large number of shops, fast-food restaurants and, o’ course, pubs and clubs.
[Richard Harris' Statue. The text says: 'Peace not war'. And I say: 'He could not be more right.']
[Let's takea 'Tacsai']
The Downtown:
Walking randomly away from the center I found an interesting area of Limerick, I believe it is called the ‘Medieval area’ or something like that; on the King’s Island.
I also spotted my first Masonic building. (I might have been other of them, but this is the first time I see one after reading something about that topic)
[Sylvester O'Halloran Bridge on the River Shannon]
And a picture from just outside the downtown:
After this trip, I can without no doubts that Limerick is an interesting city but, honestly, I would live there. To me, it has way too much the feel of a chaotic city. But it can be a fun place on a weekend with some good pal.
I cannot end this post without mentioning at least once the ‘Limericks’.
For more info : Limericks.
From the same source (wikipedia.org)
There was a Young Person of Smyrna
Whose grandmother threatened to burn her;
- But she seized on the cat,
- and said ‘Granny, burn that!
You incongruous old woman of Smyrna!’
Extras:
As the last time, I want to also give something extra with this post and not only (hopefully) some good minutes of pictures, descriptions and stories about the place I visit.
So, I will start with a nice song I have found yesterday watching the American TV series ‘Dead Like me’.
I liked it and this I’d like to share it with you 
[Metisse - Boom Boom Ba]
I also had the chance to watch/listen to a very interesting and thoughtful speech of Robert Kennedy about violence (it has Italian subtitles as there might be some Italian reader):
I am amazed by the speeches done by RK and JFK, they are so far away (mentally) from the USA known by the rest of the world that it kinda makes sense that after a while they were nothing but an annoyance for the US government.
And the post, finally, ends with a quote I find very inspiring and might help people getting out of their daily grey routine:
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
~Attributed to Mark Twain
I wish you a good weekend.
And bear in mind that any day is the right day for changing your own way of thinking and stepping out the ‘normality’, the same normality that kills many and many dreams every single day. Dreams do not like doing all the way by their own, you must show them you want to meet them.
Peace,
Nesh
