The Sixth Day




Ha´penny Bridge


The River Liffey runs through the city of Dublin dividing the city to North and South Dublin. Earlier the North side used to be more working-class and rough, while the South was connected to money. We were told you could hear it in people’s accents from which side of the river they were from. 

There are many bridges across the river, of which a famous one can be seen in the pictures. The white Ha’penny Bridge is the most famous one. It was build in 1816 and is made of cast iron. It became a populra bridge to put love locks on. However, due to damage risk Dublin city removed the locks in 2012 and asked people not to put any more locks there. 

Today’s program

Today was the first rainy day here. So it was umbrellas and raincoats all around. It did not matter that we spent all day inside in our workshops. But before that in the morning we booked tickets to the national theatre, the Abbey Theatre for Monday to see Ibsen’s Ghosts. The workshops dealt with language lessons with insight into Northern Ireland as our teacher was from Belfast.





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