Welcome to Dublin. A city I expected to be much more fancy looking than it actually is. My idea stemmed from the information I had gathered about housing market prices beforehand. If you pay 500 Euros for a shared room in the city centre it must be a pretty posh place I concluded. I was not completely wrong. Dublin has its expensive places but the inner city still has a surprising amount of ruins and empty but fenced off space.

The Dublin housing market. A sentence conjuring up feelings of dread and despair in most people confronted with it. The prices are completely inflated. I mentioned already that a shared room in the inner city will cost you at least 500 Euro per person. A single room in a similar location would probably go for at least 800 Euro. That said it is not necessarily hard to find a room. Rather, it is hard to find a room that is affordable.

You have to be flexible and willing to commute if you want to find something cheap. Send out as many requests on as many poperty platforms as possible. Go to as many viewings as possible to get an idea about what you get for which amount of money where.

In the end I found a very cheap room in the suburbs around 30 minutes from the city centre by bicycle. Success.

I took these photos with a Nikkormat using Fujicolor 200 film. Not sure if I am that convinced by this kind of film. In my eyes it often seems to lack the vividity of other colour film by Kodak I had previously used.

If you are in Dublin and need your film developed I can recommend the John Gunn Camera Shop. A family run business, which seems to have been around for decades and is sometimes staffed by three generations of the family at the same time.

So far I like Dublin. The city is very vivid and just as in Berlin it is hard to understand the bus drivers if you are not familiar with the local dialect.

For now I am enjoying my new suburban home with its highspeed internet connection. See you soon!