During the last month I added some extra stuff to the blog.
I added feedburner support to manage the RSS subscription and now you can see how many people are subscripted. I added also some scripts to monitor the traffic using google analytics.
I have readers in nine different countries bun most of the traffic are from United Kindom and Spain. And some of the countries have only one visit. In particular I have two visits that are difficult to explain.
The first one, from Brasil. Do anyone in Brasil know me? The other one is more extrain, from West Hollywood in United States.
Yesterday, we visited a little and pretty city name Derry. It is really near the border with the Republic of Ireland and its history it's a good example of the history of the whole Northern Ireland.
The bus trip to Derry it's quite long and we wanted to make most so we got up early in the morning. Our departure was at 9:30 am - very early for a Sunday!
One of the special things of this city is that the whole walls are well preserved - they have even cannons!
In fact, one side of the city wall splits the traditional catholic and protestant areas. In front of the walls there a place known as Freederry with a lot of pro-catholic murals. Over the walls, cannons guard the protestant positions. Here all the murals are of the same community, not like in Belfast.
In this area one can see graffiti and symbols pro-RIRA and other stuff related.
Caution RIRA
RIRA graffiti in the roof of a funerary (and Finnish tourists).
In the middle of that place, even the streetlight have political messages! For example, the Irish flag colours. I found in one streetlight a pro-Catalonia-independence label. In that moment I was thinking "Wow, it should be the only thing like that in that city and I found it".
But I was very wrong! There are one full mural of that. I am yet freaking out...
One local man told us that the inauguration of a new mural it was going to be in 10 minutes when we were leaving from that place. Then the situation became weirder and weirder... We and other 20 local people were waiting in front of a Che Guevara mural that was inaugurated by the Cuban ambassador.
"Before" and "after".
Elocuent and non understandable words of the ambassador.
We made more things also. We visited the one church, the Tower Museum and the Linen Hall Bar. The museum visit was 2 quids (student fare) and it was worthy. Half of the museum explain the history of the city related with the Irish and British people. One friendly employee guided us in that part. Their explanations were very interesting and funny. He also took our "family photo" in the roof of the tower and told us about the Linen Hall Bar. Thank you pal!
The rest of the museum is an interactive travel to the Trinidad Valencera, a Spanish ship of the Armada Invencible that was defeat in Derry.
It was definitely a great day!
(And we used the dance pad when we was back at home ;)
The university prepared a lot of events for the international freshers during our first week. The event I like more is the Ceili dancing.
Ceili dancing is the traditional Irish dancing and relies also in the traditional Irish music. In our case, we had a little music band and one man explaining the different dances to all of us just before starting. That dances has some movements like some steps in some direction, turning, people making arcs or circles, kicking the ground and so on. After each loop, there are another movement that changes the groups of people that are dancing together. This is made in a way that is modular and endless (in theory). That part remembers me the algorithm dance, but this is much better ;)
Another advantage is that permutations helps yout to know more people - actually, only to say hello for a couple of seconds.
At the end of the day I was danced all the dances of the event! And I have a little video of one of the dances in which our row was resting during one loop.
