tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71034194184542537572024-03-13T00:13:58.492+00:00Ruben's Thinking PatternsI write about anything that happens in my life and has an impact on it.Rubénhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10888685663516963184noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7103419418454253757.post-19534665336089649712011-12-11T17:21:00.010+00:002011-12-29T16:20:26.243+00:00Sligeach<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">On thursday as a birthday gift to myself I have taken a bus and embarked on a trip to the past. I passed through a small town that can be used to explain where I come from. There is a geographical similarity between this <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Longford,+Ireland&hl=en&ll=53.46189,-8.327637&spn=4.180003,9.876709&sll=53.232345,-6.657715&sspn=4.202551,9.876709&vpsrc=6&hnear=Longford,+County+Longford,+Ireland&t=m&z=7" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">town</span></a> and my <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=valladolid&ll=40.162083,-2.680664&spn=10.724213,19.753418&hnear=Valladolid,+Province+of+Valladolid,+Castille+and+Leon,+Spain&t=m&z=6&vpsrc=6" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">hometown</span></a>, they both are located in the exact middle of nowhere of the respective countries that they belong to.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US">After the compulsory stop in my equivalent town I saw a traffic signal with a name deeply rooted in my mind that brought a smile in my face, some call it the "<a href="http://www.sligozone.net/Strandhill.htm" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Surfing Irish Meca</span></a>". Then the bus <a href="http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/25192149.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">splitted the river into two</span></a> revealing what I consider one of the most beautiful landscapes of this country. </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span>On the way to my final destination I also encountered a pretty <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyle_Abbey" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">picturesque building from the 12th</span></a> Century that its view is gifted twice from the road.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">A really astonishing view with the understaffed bus following lakes and the river I came to see the shape of the most famous mountain <a href="http://www.gsi.ie/NR/rdonlyres/B593E396-C3A1-478C-BFEA-FE767CB9612A/0/11_1.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">around</span></a>. Then I saw on the wall of a famous <a href="http://www.coachlane.ie/home.html" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">restaurant</span></a> the signal that reminds you <a href="http://maps.google.ie/maps?q=donaghys,+sligo&hl=en&ll=54.271377,-8.480788&spn=0.000857,0.002642&sll=54.270601,-8.471644&sspn=0.054432,0.169086&vpsrc=6&hq=donaghys,&hnear=Sligo,+County+Sligo&t=m&z=19&layer=c&cbll=54.271454,-8.48079&panoid=nbG_O7flutSzXRTCcENrDQ&cbp=12,75.89,,1,-4.47" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">where you are</span></a>. I even had time to see "<a href="http://itsligo.ie/files/2011/04/IT-Sligo-Fish.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">the fish</span></a>" and believe me, it is a big one.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US">The weather didn't let me down and as could be expected I experienced 4 seasons in one day (It rained, snowed, healed and was sunny for a little while too!).</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US">I even have time to walk alongside the fantastic <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/leppre/258931279/sizes/o/in/photostream/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">river</span></a> that goes through this lovely town and remember how loved this place was by a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._B._Yeats" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Nobel Prize winner</span></a>.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US">Not everything was good news and I experienced a shock when I saw <a href="http://www.sligochampion.ie/lifestyle/keohanes-bookshop-will-be-missed-this-christmas-2958162.html" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">my favourite bookshop</span></a> closed and out of my mind came a sonorous curse that I couldn't control and a lovely grandma clarified very gently "It's been like this for two months, pet". Reaching the town centre I also found out that the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tobergal-Lane-Cafe/187984144377" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">famous tapas bar</span></a> was also closed and this added to my sadness feelings, no more Moon parties will take place there as from April this year.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">I also bought myself a Sligo IT green hoodie that reminds me that as it is said "It is greener on the west side of Ireland".</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"><br />
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