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12. LEISURE, SPORT and SPARE TIME the Beautiful Blackrock Park, in the South, with a Wonderful View of the Howth Peninsula 154 155 12. LEISURE, SPORT AND SPARE TIME the beautiful Blackrock park, in the south, with a wonderful view of the Howth peninsula. A wonderful park surrounds the Malahide castle, 10 miles Northeast of This section of the book will just give you some advices of what Ireland Dublin, and it’s a must for a daily trip. Moreover, some nice squares in the city and especially Dublin offer to you for your spare time, your hobbies and your centre has a cute park in the middle, where you can walk, read a book or have your leisure. Once you have found an accommodation and a job, and you have resolved lunch break, in a peaceful and relaxed atmosphere just a few meters from the all your little problems to clarify your position in regard to taxes and social welfare, traffic. You can visit Merrion Square, Montjoy Square, Fitzwilliam Square and the you might have some time just for you, to enjoy Dublin and its special green at the Trinity College. Don’t forget St. Stephen’s Green, in the very centre of environment. Dublin, with its nice trees and lakes. Also UCD (University College of Dublin), From public parks to football courts, from libraries to cinemas you won’t even if a little bit far has a huge green park. Herbert Park, in Ballsbridge, is a little ever get bored of your spare time, and you will enjoy resting and having fun after treasure. Parks are all free, and are a valid alternative to libraries and other leisure your daily duties. structure such as cafés. The opening time is in general 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. in winter and to 9,30 p.m. in summertime. They are always provided with banks and 12.1 Parks sometimes picnic tables, sidewalks and children playgrounds. For more details about the parks, you can buy a guidebook edited by Lilliput Press and written by Moira Bowers, entitled Dublin City Parks and Gardens. As probably someone of you knows, Dublin is proud to have the biggest Another charming place is the Botanical Garden where you'll find urban park in all Europe, Phoenix Park. It is as big as all parks in London. If you go glasshouses, tropical plants and thousand of different trees, plants and flowers; there on a weekend, you’ll find plenty of people walking, biking, running, you'll be astonished by the atmosphere of beauty and peace that makes this garden rollerblading and even riding horses. Families with young kids go there, as well as a real oasis in the surrounding traffic. More over, some interesting walks can be young group of friends or old couples. You can see horse-riding policemen, soccer found along the Grand Canal in the south side of Dublin. matches or even dears, if you are lucky. Phoenix Park offers you also some interesting monuments such as the Phoenix, the Wellington obelisk, the cross built in occasion of the Pope visit in 1979 and more. Not to mention the presence of the Zoological Garden. Don’t miss to go there next Sunday, you won’t be 12.2 Sport Facilities disappointed. Besides Phoenix Park in Dublin there are plenty of other parks (much Irish people like sports, both individuals and team oriented. Usually at smaller), and maybe there is one right around the corner of your house. I would like school sport is an important part of the basic education, and colleges and to mention Fairview park, on the east side of the city, just at the limit to the sea, or universities are really sport-focused, providing students with any kind of facilities ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ © Simone Luchini 2000 © Simone Luchini 2000 156 157 for people interested. You usually have clubs that you can join for a few pounds, freak can expect: from the noble trout to the king salmon, from the common carp and then be able to participate to all the sport sessions that you want. If you are not to the pike, from black-basses to perches. Just a few kilometres far from every city a student it won’t be that cheap, but you’ll still be able to practice your preferred you can find your little space, away from the noise and the pollution, where spend sport. In Dublin you can find gyms, squash and tennis courts, free soccer, rugby or some time resting and regenerating your mind. Gaelic games fields (i.e. in some parks), bowling, swimming pools, baseball, ice Generally, since only trouts and salmons are considered valuable fishes, skating. You can ride a horse or play some sports like polo; you can prepare for the you won't need a permit for coarse fishing (pikes, bream, tenches, rudds, roaches, Belfast Marathon or just go to see other people playing the main sports. Sports are perches, carps and eels); you can use only one rod at time and live bait is forbidden. very popular in Ireland even if you are not a sportsman but you just enjoy watching There is no closed season. Anyway, always ensure you know the rules and you have a good match. If you are a golf fan, you won’t move anywhere else, since Dublin in (if required) the permit. For this you can contact the Department of the Marine particular and Ireland in general have an incredible extension of golf courts, from Fisheries Administration or the Central Fisheries Board. the small one to the immense one. Great fun also if you don't have a bike to ride: you can rent one just for the day and organise your daily trips with a group of friends or joining the many associations that regularly manage excursions and 12.4 Voluntary Unpaid Apprenticeship/Voluntary and Charity gatherings. Just check with your nearest bicycles dealer, it'll have all the information Organisations – Volunteerism/Volunteering you need. Do not miss to go to Shelbourne Park on Wednesdays, Thursdays or Saturdays, when the greyhound races take place: with only IR£ 5 (2 with student ID A very nice way of spending your spare time is being useful to other – € 6.35/2.54) you can have a lot of fun, bet a few pounds, and if you want use the people. In Dublin and in all Ireland there are plenty of opportunities with not- nice restaurant and bar indoor facilities, from where you can assist to the races profit association that always need your help. From walking old people for their seated and relaxed. shopping to assisting poor people, from taking care of abandoned animals to first aid and medical emergency. It’s not a waste of time, you will learn a lot about human behaviour and maybe you’ll make new friends: it’s not too bad for someone 12.3 Fishing that might have some problems in making new friends in a new country! For a complete list of all the voluntary organisations, you can consult the exhaustive Fishing deserves a little paragraph, since for the beauties and the richness Directory of National Voluntary Organisations, edited by A & A Farmar and sponsored of the Irish waters every year thousands of fishermen come here form every part of by the National Social Service Board; or also Hey You! A Guide to Voluntary Work the world. Ireland has a wonderful country that is the ideal place for lakes, rivers Opportunities edited by Wolfhound Press. and streams. This clear waters are abundant in all the species of fishes that a fishing ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ © Simone Luchini 2000 © Simone Luchini 2000 158 159 12.5 Libraries 12.6 Museums and Galleries We forget too often that the public structure offers us a great instrument of education and culture, the public libraries. These are places where you can still Dublin offers a great choice of art, history and culture in the many find an element of the nature that has almost disappeared from our common life: museums that you can visit during your spare time. From civic museums to the silence. What’s better to relax your mind to spend some hours in a wonderful national galleries, from contemporary arts to old libraries, from museums of natural place like a library? A library can provide us with the right atmosphere, polite users history to jail museum, you'll find them all. This book, as specified at the beginning, and a quantity of resources that is difficult to find in another place. does not want do be a tourist guide, so this chapter is just an introduction, a You can read all the newspapers and magazines (even the foreigners one) suggestion. You can find detailed information about these places in any good without paying a penny, and if you need some photocopies, you can have them. guidebook. You can write the letter that you did not ever write, for lack of time or maybe of the necessary concentration. You can borrow a book and then decide if you prefer to read it there or bring it with you; in this case, to borrow books, you will be 12.7 Cinemas and Theatres requested to show proof of residence and get a membership card. You can study your subjects if at home you don’t have the required concentration. And it’s One of the favourites hobbies of the Irish people is going to the movies. probably the only place left where you can be sure to find a phone directory book if In Dublin you can easily find any kind of movie theatre, from the small ones that you haven’t one at home.
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