Author Archives: wilkemw

I guess that pretty much wraps up all my big adventures.  Of course, there really isn’t any way to capture the experiences in just a few short blog posts, I’d be here for weeks trying to come up with the … Continue reading →

When shopping for tickets home I realized that it was much cheaper to buy my own flight to London, then back to the USA, instead of letting the airlines do it for me.  (About $500 cheaper, so I’d check that … Continue reading →

There was still one place I hadn’t been yet in Belfast and that was cave hill.  The only thing I knew about it was that it was a hiking trail and the view was supposed to be amazing.  I hadn’t … Continue reading →

At Queens University we were given a 3 week spring break before exams started.  I decided to take four of those days and go to Portugal.  Partially because it was one of the cheapest flights, but mostly because I wanted … Continue reading →

I came to Ireland through a group called Interstudy and they had one final trip planned for us for the spring semester.  It was to an area in the Republic called Killarney, which is a small town about an hour … Continue reading →

After landing in Scotland we took a train in to Glasgow and started heading towards the hostel.  It was quite a walk and we almost got lost a few times, but managed to make it without much trouble.  After checking … Continue reading →

Of course St. Patrick’s Day is a huge deal in Ireland so I was very excited to see what was going to be happening.  A few people threw around the idea of going to Dublin, but as all the hostels … Continue reading →

After hearing that the Giants Causeway was one of the most beautiful places in Northern Ireland, me and few other international students decided to take a bus tour that would take us there and a few other places as well. … Continue reading →

A few weeks ago a big group of foreign students decided they wanted to all go to Derry for a day and night.  The day before we left I told an Irish guy in my screenwriting class that I was … Continue reading →

Sorry it’s taken a while to post anything, it’s been busy here. I thought I’d quickly tell you about my trip to Dublin, I say quickly because it was only one weekend and it rained the entire time, so there … Continue reading →